
Mandriva has released the
planned schedule and technical specifications for its next release, Mandriva Linux 2009. These can be found on the
Mandriva Wiki. The schedule calls for a first alpha release on June 25th, with the final release set for early October. Planned features include KDE 4, Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 3, a new design for the installer, a live distribution upgrade mode for MandrivaUpdate, and improvements to many of the Mandriva tools. Take a look and see what you may find on your system when the final Mandriva Linux 2009 release is available.
Member since:
2006-11-17
Actually Mandriva is using a new build system and the whole distro is rebuilt at each release (since 2008 or 2008.1 if I remember correctly. Many random bugs you had may be fixed by their new build system. Debian is a great distro of course. With Mandriva, you can get (paid) support as well.