Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Aug 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this beta) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This beta is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer. Future betas will be available in One live/install CD hybrid editions with proprietary drivers.
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Fred's policy on GNOME is to follow upstream GNOME as closely as possible. Hence we followed their change in the default panel layout.
We cannot have any official links to PLF. It contains software that's simply flat out illegal in major jurisdictions (most obviously dvdcss and win32-codecs) and hence we can't be associated with it.
Mandriva's GCC packages already use the Debian alternatives system (which we use whenever we want to have various alternative versions or implementations of the same command available). You can install GCC 3.3 and even 2.96 alongside the current version (packages gcc3.3 and gcc2.96) and then use the different versions in several ways: you can either explicitly call gcc3.3 or gcc2.96 , define the CC variable, or use update-alternatives:
update-alternatives --config gcc
(as root) and tell it which one you want to be the default.
I don't know anything about Giza++. But in general, it's very hard to ensure that obsolete software that is not updated by its authors will work with a modern distribution.