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MandrakeSoft: Mandrake Linux 9.0 Release Candidate 2 Has Arrived

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 9, 2002

[ Thanks to Kadjo
NDoua
for this link. ]

MandrakeSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability
of the second Release Candidate of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.0.
This RC2 is the last chance to influence 9.0’s development by
contributing your reports and suggestions.

For this final testing session, the development team requests
that beta testers focus on recent improvements to the installation
“Upgrade” mode.

Please test the ability to upgrade from previous versions of
Mandrake Linux to 9.0 RC2, then send us your feedback.

To prove that beta testing isn’t all drudgery, 9.0 RC2 offers a
bevy of exciting applications to play with, including:

  • New DrakConf
  • Many new & improved configuration utilities
  • XFree86 4.2.1
  • KDE 3.0.2
  • GNOME 2.0
  • Mozilla 1.1
  • Apache 1.3.26 & Apache 2.0.40
  • Evolution 1.0.8
  • Galeon 1.2.5
  • OpenOffice.org 1.0.1
  • KOffice 1.2
  • Shorewall firewall utility
  • GCC 3.2
  • And lots more waiting to be discovered

To read the full announcement and download Mandrake Linux 9.0
Release Candidate 2, please go to:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90rc.php3

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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