The Sidux team decided to give us all a treat last december by releasing a fifth Sidux edition just after christmas. The Debian-Sid-Based distro came up with a LiveDVD (don’t jump, it’s only 1.4 GB) wich supports both i386 and x64 architectures in the same media. Extended hardware support for WiFi devices and ATI graphics cards and stability improvements, Xorg 7.3, and new initial localisations for languages other than German and English.
Among the newly supported WiFi chipsets are:
- Intel 3945
- Broadcom b 43
- Ralink rt2×00
- Realtek RTL8187
More information available in the release notes or, if you just can’t wait to get it, you can proceed to the mirror list.
Mandriva has announced the 2008.1 Release Candidate 1 release.
Among other things includes WPA support, KDE 3.5.9 or 4.0.1 for the KDE fans, some new default applications, the latest OpenOffice 2.4 and, at last, NTFS writing support among other features.
This release candidate is the fifth one on the way to the final Mandriva 2008 Spring and is available in the Free edition as an installation DVD for each 32 bit and 64 bit arquitectures or in the Mandriva One edition, as either a LiveCD with GNOME or KDE, 32 bit only. Here’s the mirror list.
While this is not a final release but a testing one, it may be just too early to jump into the Mandriva 2008 Spring wagon. The last full release (Mandriva 2008.0) has scored so many good reviews that it could be interesting what the coming Spring is up to.
