Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Thor
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Linux 2007 Thor is the first beta version for the Mandriva Linux 2007 Edition.
You can see the technical details at Changelog.
Now a more recent beta Odin, has been released.
Availability
This Beta is mainly available via two means. First via the public FTP and HTTP sites mirroring the Mandriva Linux repository. Check the current development mirrors at Cooker Mirrors, the 2007 Beta tree is in /devel/2007.0/. Second, the preferred way, via either the provided One CDs (installable live CDs), or the intallation DVD or the six installation CDs. You will find the live CDs and the installation CDs and DVD in the same mirrors as the cooker one, in the /devel/iso/2007.0/ section.
Known Issues
- The software installer (rpmdrake) is broken, you must use urpmi and the command line to install new packages;
- A lot of menu entries are not yet displayed because the XDG migration is not finished;
- You may need to deactivate 3D acceleration on some intel based video chipset in order for X to work.
- The konqueror icon on the desktop may not work, but you can lauch konqueror via the menu.
Main changes
- New Mirror structure
- New network popup notifications
- Gnome 2.16 beta 1
- Kernel 2.6.17
- KDE 3.5.3
- Updated wireless application (drakroam)
- Switch to XDG menus (in progress)
Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta One CDs
This Beta version comes in 5 differents live installable CDs, which includes each one different languages support. For space constraints, the language are only present on one of the 5 CDs. Likely the language repartition will change for the future betas. You will find which languages is included in each version in the following description. However, once the live CD is installed, you have the possibility to add new languages if you configure an external Mandriva Linux 2007 urpmi source.
Including as many languages as possible is very important to help the linux use in every country, if you are interested in helping for your own language support, please consult Translation Tasks. We will do our best to find a way to create at least one version of Mandriva Linux product which includes support for your language.
mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 685 MiB
Languages: English, Belarussian, Romanian, Slovenian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Assamese, Azeri, Berber, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Armenian, Indonesian, Japanese, Georgian, Khmer, Kannada, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Maori, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Swati, Sotho, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Turkmen, Tatar, Uyghur, Urdu, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Zulu
mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.x86_64.iso
Gnome Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Size: 699 MiB
Languages: English, Danish, Greek, Esperanto, Finnish, Faroese, Friulan, Frisian, Icelandic, Limburguish, Dutch, Saami, Swedish, Turkish
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 692 MiB
Languages: English, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Estonian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde-2.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 693 MiB
Languages: English, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Amharic, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde.x86_64.iso
KDE Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Size: 618 MiB
Languages: English, Breton, Catalan, Czech, French, Welsh, German, Spanish, Basque, Irish, Galician, Italian, Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Maltese, Lower Saxon, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Walloon
Mandriva 2007 Beta Installation DVD
A dual architecture (i586 and x86_64) DVD. You can use it indifferently on 32 or 64 bit x86 machines, the installation auto detect your processor and boot the correct version of the installer. If you want to use a 32 bit installation on a 64 bit machine, you can select it pressing F3 then F6 at the boot prompt.
Size: 4.3 GiB
Mandriva 2007 Beta Installation CDs
Six dual architecture (i586 and x86_64) CDs. You can use them indifferently on 32 or 64 bit x86 machines, the installation auto detect your processor and boot the correct version of the installer. If you want to use a 32 bit installation on a 64 bit machine, you can select it pressing F3 then F6 at the boot prompt.
Size: 6x700 MiB
Howto use these ISO images?
To test and use these ISO files, you need to choose one of them, download it and burn it as an image file on a 700 MB blank CD (or any bigger blank media, including blank DVD). [link to instructions??]You must configure your computer to boot on CD. Once booted, you can check that your hardware is correctly supported. If you want to install this product on your harddrive, you can use the 'Install' function available on the desktop.
Test wanted
You are encouraged to test and comment this beta release.
- Check that all your hardware is supported. Note that these ISO files only include free software, you may need to check with your hardware manufacturer for the appropriate drivers or firmwares (especially ATI and NVidia video cards, Intel centrino wireless ipw2100/2200 Wifi cards, Hsf modem...)
- Report any missing or unwanted software
Checking your download (asc files)
The files with the asc extensions are Mandriva GPG signed checksum files. These files help you to check that your download has been succesfully completed.
To check if the downloaded file is correct, you can either use the md5 file or the sha1 file, which are both different checksum method. In the directory where you have downloaded the file.iso, use the commandmd5sum -c file.md5.ascto check your file with the md5 checksum, or
sha1sum -c file.sha1.ascto check it with the sha1 checksum.
The asc extension, linked to the Mandriva official GPG signature, can also be verified. If you know that the ISO file you have downloaded has a correct sum, and that the checksum file is signed correctly with the Mandriva official GPG key, then odds are high that the ISO file you have is the real official one from Mandriva.
To check the GPG signature you must use the gpg program available in the gnupg package. You must first download the Mandriva Official GPG key, and then type in a terminalgpg --verify file.asc.
