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Schedule estimation and various related development information about Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring.

Contents 1 Specifications 1.1 General changes 1.2 Product line 1.3 Core components 1.4 Desktop 1.5 Install 1.6 Mandriva tools 1.6.1 Graphical interface configuration 1.7 Proprietary software 1.7.1 Drivers 1.7.2 Applications 2 Notes 3 Schedule Estimation

Specifications

An overview of new features and packages in Mandriva Linux 2007.1:

General changes

• New release extention for packages mdv2007.1.

Product line

Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring will likely be available in the following editions:

• Free (3 CDs i586, 3 CDs x86_64, 1 DVD Dual Arch i586/x86_64)
• One (GNOME and KDE)
• Discovery (based on One) 1 DVD
• Powerpack (based on Free) 2 DVD (1 dual layer)
• Powerpack+ (based on Free) 4 DVD (2 dual layer)

Core components

• kernel 2.6.17
• glibc 2.4
• gcc 4.1
• X.org 7.2 (including AIGLX support)

Desktop

• KDE 3.5.6
• GNOME 2.18
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (latest subrelease)
• OpenOffice.org 2.1
• 3D desktop with support for compiz, beryl and metisse

Install

• Better support for extra sources added before installation.

Mandriva tools

Graphical interface configuration

• More 3D

Proprietary software

Note: proprietary sofware is not available in Free, because of licensing issues and free software philosophy

Drivers

• ATI video card drivers
• NVIDIA video card drivers
• Intel wifi ipw2100, ipw2200 and ipw3945 drivers

Applications

• Acrobat Reader
• Flashplayer
• RealPlayer
• Opera web browser
• Sun Java runtime environment

Notes

• Changelog

Schedule Estimation

initial date	estimated date	real date	event	comment
2006.12.25	2006.12.25	2006.12.25	2007.1 0.2	Hangzhou / Alpha 1 1CD dual arch i586/x86_64, One i586 KDE and One x86_64 Gnome
2007.01.15	2007.01.15	2007.02.15	2007.1 0.3	HuangHe / Beta 1 DVD and One (live) CDs for Gnome and KDE, i586 and x86_64
2007.02.05	2007.02.26	2007.02.28	2007.1 0.4	Wei / Beta 2 DVD and One (live) CDs for Gnome and KDE, i586 and x86_64
2007.02.20	2007.03.05	2007.03.15	2007.1 0.5	Xianyang / RC1 DVD and One(live) CDs for Gnome and KDE, i586 and x86_64
2007.02.05	2007.02.26	2007.03.15	New Versions Freeze
2007.02.05	2007.02.26	2007.03.15	Strings freeze
2007.02.20	2007.03.xx		Full freeze
2007.03.05	2007.03.xx	2007.03.31	2007.1 0.6	Beijing / RC3 DVD and One(live) CDs for Gnome and KDE, i586 and x86_64
2007.03.19	2007.03.xx		2007.1	Master discs
2007.04.04	2007.04.xx		2007.1	Public availability