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Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 Released, Reviewed

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 3, 2008

Mandriva: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 [Released]

[ Thanks to Adam
Williamson
for this information. ]

The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This
pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring
release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management
tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE
3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and
GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See
here for
download information.

Planète Béranger: A Cold-Catcher Quick View of
Mandriva 2008 Spring RC1 GNOME

“Back to our ship. Adam Williamson announced that Mandriva Linux
2008 Spring RC 1 Serapias (was) released, so I went to the Mandriva
Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 Mirrors to find a working one. Good news,
there were many mirrors working just fine, so I grabbed the ‘One’
GNOME flavor with 2 Mbit/s, my speed limit.

“I never test a distro in a VirtualBox, but only on real
hardware. So I thought of trying it on the old laptop–no fancy
hardware, but otherwise harsh conditions: Celeron-128/850 MHz, 256
MB RAM…”


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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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