Gisteren hebben de developers van Mandrake de eerste release candidate uitgebracht van Mandrakelinux 10.1. Vorige maand werden bèta 1 en bèta 2 van de 10.1-branch uitgebracht. Deze release wordt gekenmerkt door XOrg 6.7.0, Linux-kernel 2.6.8 met enkele bugfixes van kernel 2.6.9c, KDE 3.2.3, Gnome 2.6 en een nieuwe SuperTux-game. Net zoals de voorgaande uitgiftes is ook deze versie van Mandrakelinux verspreid over een drietal iso-images die met gemak op een CD-R(W) gebrand kunnen worden. Hieronder is het changelog van 10.1 RC1 geplaatst, voor een gedetailleerder overzicht kan je terecht bij de release notes:
Release Candidate 1Some package versions:
- Three 700 MB ISO files (via bittorrent or list of FTP mirrors below and one new special 300 MB (also via bittorrent or see below) mini-ISO file.
- More than 1800 packages.
- Support for 75 languages with a new Arabic installation (see support level at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/status.php3).
- Report bugs at Bugzilla.
- See the Release Notes.
Mandrakelinux tools:
- xorg 6.7.0
- kernel 2.6.8 (and various fixes from 2.6.9rc)
- KDE 3.2.3
- gnome 2.6
- mozilla 1.7.2
- glibc 2.3.3
- gcc 3.4.1
- samba 3.0.6
- New supertux game! Test it!
Hardware support:
- New media selection during installation (to add new sources at installation time). (NEW)
- New tool for wireless network (drakroam).
- New tool for bittorrent download (drakbt).
- New network applet to see Internet connection status and to switch it on or off. (NEW)
- New Mandrakelinux Control Center look and feel. (NEW)
These test are most desired:
- Improved laptop detection and configuration of ACPI, CPU frequency control and Synaptic's touchpads. (NEW)
- Better support of bluetooth devices (with gnome-bluetooth and kdebluetooth).
- Improved network configuration tool (drakconnect) with fixed support for Sagem and ISDN modems. (NEW)
- Better USB (should fix some badly configured keyboard and mice issues)
- Wacom tablets fixed (NEW)
- Switch to udev
Bugs:
- Upgrade from a previous Mandrakelinux release.
- Adding new media during installation.
- Network configuration with a Sagem ADSL modem (DHCP or static) with eagle-usb.
Fixes:
- broken console 1
- Burning as user
- Various udev switch related bugs
- Text install with UTF8 strings