Per Øyvind Karlsen, the project leader for Mandriva Linux 2012 Development, just announced the release of the first Mandriva Linux 2012 Alpha, codenamed – Tenacious Underdog.
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Faster, smaller and much improved installer;
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Text mode Installer;
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A slimmer and much improved rescue mode;
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Dual Arch CD ISO has been much improved with a more complete set of packages;
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LXDE now shipped by default;
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Swith to linaro’s gcc 4.7 branch;
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HAL has finally been removed;
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KDE 4.9.0;
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Tons of other updates, packages and bug fixes.The race is on. We’re still not dead! Thanks to all that make it possible.
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The road-map : <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2012_Development">see here</a>.
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<a href="ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/Mandriva/devel/iso/2012/">Download</a>
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