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.
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Member since:2005-07-06
KDE 3.5 will still be available in 2009, but it'll be the reverse of the 2008 Spring situation - 3.5 will be in contrib, 4 in main. We can still reverse this if KDE 4 still looks dodgy in October, but we don't think it will.
Previous wishlists are taken as the starting point for the next one - that's why you see the 2008 and 2008 Spring lists mentioned at the top of the Wiki page in this article. But we don't take everything over to the new list - maybe it's no longer a compelling idea, or we don't have the particular expertise to implement it, or a better idea came up that takes priority. Are there any particular issues from previous lists that you feel are left off the 2009 list?
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2006-01-28
Since Adam reads these forums, it would be good to know why they don't take the items that were not completed during the previous development cycle as the starting point for the current wishlist.
It seems like many good ideas were suggested and not implemented in the previous release cycle and it makes one less inclined to provide input if you see that some of these ideas were never implemented or their status is shown as 0% or 60%. Maybe this is a case of going back to the wiki so that it reflects what was really done and what is missing and moving what wasn't done to the 2009 wish list.
What do you think? And if you are in favor, could you see to it that it happens?
Thanks for the chance to comment.