Hi everybody!
in the case you wouldn't have noticed, Mandrake 7.1 is available for
download and tests.
New features include:
* Hardware
- Enhanced USB support for modems, printers, Zip drives
- i810 based video cards now supported
- ATA 66 (UDMA 66) interface
* Mandrake specific tools
- DrakX graphic installation procedure has been improved to ease
installation it now fully handles multi-CD installation
- If Windows is also on the computer, DrakFont gives the user access
to his Windows fonts under Linux.
- DrakBoot allows for easy graphical configuration of boot loader
(lilo and grub)
- PrinterDrake (printer configuration) now supports more printer
types and options.
* Desktop evironement
- All Helix Code GNOME improvements incorporated
- New menu system. Menus now look the same under all graphical
environments and updates automatically when new packages are
installed.
- Modified Qt library (foundation of KDE applications) supporting
Chinese
* New software
- Now includes brand new XFree 4.0 servers, with new modular
architecture.
- For professional environments, now shipping ReiserFS, a new
journalized file system.
Several mirrors are already ok, from which ISO images on Tucows. If
you have good bandwidth and time, your comments, tests and bug reports
will be greatly appreciated on the [Cooker] mailling-list and will
contribute to improve Linux-Mandrake!
Infos and mirrors are available on:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3
Thank you!
Gael.
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