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.
OpenGEU the distro that brings together Ubuntu’s usability with Enlightenment’s beauty and GNOME’s robustness released Luna Nova, the distro’s version 7.10, based on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, last december.
It’s available as an installable LiveCD you can get here. But if you already have a Gusty Gibbon running in your machine, you can bring the coolnes of OpenGEU’s E17 desktop by adding a repository to your Synaptic and installing a few .deb packages. You can see the OpenGEU’s wiki pages for further instructions.
If you used to be among the linux guys that wondered why the hell Enlightenment never turned into a real desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE and had to resign yourself to use it because of its lack of development, OpenGEU is the just the thing for you. You get the whole Ubuntu thing along with an extremely efficient E17 desktop.
Among the customizations peformed by the distro’s developers are the use of Thunar (XFCE’s file manager) instead of Nautilus (which is GNOME’s) and the XFCE panel. Both things will make your system go faster.
In the words of the Sirius Cybernetics Company: Share and enjoy!
