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Mandriva Linux 2009 Released

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Oct 2008 20:22 UTC, submitted by AdamW

Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and further improved support for working with mobile devices. For more details, see the Release Tour and the Release Notes. Get it at the download page, or go straight to the torrent list.

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RC2 to final ?

by tejaskokje on Thu 9th Oct 2008 22:21 UTC

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2005-07-18

Is there a way to upgrade from RC2 to final ?

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RE: RC2 to final ?

by AdamW on Thu 9th Oct 2008 22:42 in reply to "RC2 to final ?"

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2005-07-06

Yes. Remove your repositories, add 2009 final repositories (easiest to do this with Easy URPMI, once it's up to 2009, otherwise you can do something like: 'urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/of...' ), and run 'urpmi --auto-update'.

If you had been updating your RC2 regularly you may actually have gone a bit past 2009 final, in which case you should do the above but then also remove all mandriva-release-* packages (with rpm -e --nodeps) and replace them with the same packages from the 2009.0 repos.

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RE[2]: RC2 to final ?

by tejaskokje on Thu 9th Oct 2008 23:09 in reply to "RE: RC2 to final ?"

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2005-07-18

Thanks Adam. I have been updating RC2 regulary. Apart from release* rpms, are there any other applications/libraries that might be ahead of 2009 final in my setup ?

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