È stato annunciato pochi giorni fà sul blog ufficiale di Mandriva il rilascio di Mandriva 2011, nome in codice Hydrogen .
Le novità di questa versione sono davvero tante, ne riporto alcune:
Deprecation
GNOME, Xfce and other Desktop Environments (DE) and Window Managers (WM) are no longer included in the official Mandriva packages. Contribution packages from the Mandriva community are available for these desktop environments however. Starting from Mandriva Desktop 2011 only KDE Plasma Desktop is officially supported. If you need Mandriva with another DE or WM you can use unofficial packages or distributions prepared by community members (which are described below).
Quindi in questa versione di Mandriva, verrà usato come desktop manager unicamente KDE 4 .
Mandriva installer
Version 2011 of Mandriva uses a hybrid iso-image. It allows to you to use it in various ways:
as live-DVD (with possibility to install from live mode)
as install-DVD
as image for flash where you can boot to the live and/or install modes
Sono disponibili delle ISO ibride di Mandriva 2011, che permettono di utilizzarlo in vari modi:
- come live-DVD .
- come immagine di installazione
- come immagine di installazione flash
- come immagine live flash
Desktop applications
LibreOffice
Mandriva 2011 comes with LibreOffice 3.4.2. Compared to LibreOffice 3.2 in Mandriva 2010.2 it has many new features and improvements, which can made your work easier. LibreOffice 3.4.2 offers several new features for Calc, with faster performances and an improved compatibility with Excel spreadsheets, and Pivot Table – the new name of DataPilot – with support for unlimited numbers of fields and named range as data source. The user interface of Writer, Impress and Draw has been improved with many new features, and several cosmetic changes have been applied, with a better text rendering engine and an improved GTK+ theme integration.
Mozilla Firefox
As default internet browser Mandriva uses Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1. It was greatly improved since version 3.5 that is used in Mandriva 2010.2. New look, new features and, of course, it has great speed and security.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Instead of KMail, Mozilla Thunderbird is used as default mail client in Mandriva 2011. It has a many features which can be even improved without end due thanks to the powerful plugin system.
Aggiunta/aggiornamento di nuove applicazioni, LibreOffice 3.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1 e Thunderbird 6.0.
Altri cambiamenti li potete visualizzare nelle Release Notes sul sito ufficiale di Mandriva .
Un’altra cosa che volevo segnalare, è l’Errata Page:
The Errata page contains information on known bugs and problems in this release and instructions on fixing, avoiding or working around them.
Pagina dove potete trovare informazioni sui bugs e problemi noti di questa release di Mandriva, e le relative istruzioni su come risolverli .
In fine è stata creata una pagina denominata Mandriva Tour, che contiene informazioni e immagini per chi non ha mai utilizzato Mandriva .
Vi riporto alcune immagini qui:
New graphics theme
Mozilla Firefox
Mandriva Package Manager
Io ho deciso di provare questa nuova versione, chiunque voglia farlo puo scaricare l’immagine ISO a questo link:
