Development Release: Mandriva Linux 2008.1 RC1

Adam Williamson has announced the first release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2008.1: "The fifth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008.1 release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. The beta is available in Free and One editions, with i586 and x86_64 DVDs for the Free edition and i586, KDE and GNOME CDs for the One edition. As far as testing goes, we are particularly interested in testing the NTFS support, making sure RPMdrake has no problems, PulseAudio, multimedia keyboard support, hardware detection and hibernation support." The release announcement, release notes. Download: mandriva...dvd-i586.iso (3,882MB, MD5), mandriva...dvd-x86_64.iso (3,894MB, MD5), mandriva...GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso (700MB, MD5), mandriva...KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso (696MB, MD5).