Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Odin
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Linux 2007 Odin is the second beta version for the Mandriva Linux 2007 release.
Note than Mandriva 2007 beta 3 is now available.
You can see the technical details at Changelog.
[edit] Availability
This Beta is mainly available via two means. Firstly 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.
[edit] Known Issues
- The software installer (rpmdrake) is (still) 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.
[edit] Main changes
- GNOME 2.16 beta 2
- Kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8, with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2, i965 support, and new kernel factorization: normal, enterprise and legacy)
- KDE 3.5.4
- More applications migrated to XDG menus
- New 'Ia Ora' Mandriva Theme (for now only included in GNOME)
- New VPN configuration tool (drakvpn)
[edit] Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta One CDs
There are seven different editions of the One CD for this beta, each of which contains a different selection of supported languages. Due to space constraints, most languages are only present on one of the seven CDs. It is likely that the language repartition will change for future betas. You can find a list indicating which languages are included on each edition 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. The installation DVD and 6xCD editions of the beta both contain all supported languages.
Including as many languages as possible is very important to promote Linux use in every country. If you are interested in helping improve support for your own language, please consult Translation Tasks. We will do our best to find a way to create at least one version of a Mandriva Linux product which includes support for your language.
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-gnome-1.i586.iso
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 702 MiB
Languages: English, Breton, Catalan, Welsh, German, Spanish, Basque, French, Irish, Galician, Italian, Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Maltese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-gnome-2.i586.iso
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 680 MiB
Languages: English, Danish, Greek, Esperanto, Finnish, Faroese, Friulan, Frisian, Icelandic, Limburguish, Dutch, Saami, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk)
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-gnome.x86_64.iso
Gnome Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Size: 686 MiB
Languages: English, Breton, Catalan, Welsh, German, Spanish, Basque, French, Irish, Galician, Italian, Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Maltese, Lower Saxon, Occitan, Portuguese, Brasilian Portuguese, Sardinian, Walloon, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Croatian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish.
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-kde-1.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 687 MiB
Languages: English, Catalan, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Brasilian Portuguese
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-kde-2.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 666 MiB
Languages: English, Irish, Italian, Sardinian, Inuktitut, Greenlandic
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-kde-3.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Size: 681 MiB
Languages: English, Welsh, German, Occitan, Breton, French, Lower Saxon.
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-odin-kde.x86_64.iso
KDE Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Size: 607 MiB
Languages: English, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Azeri, Berber, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Armenian, Indonesian, Japanese, Georgian, Khmer, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Maori, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Swati, Sotho, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Turkmen, Tatar, Uyghur, Urdu, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Zulu.
[edit] Mandriva 2007 Beta Installation DVD
A dual architecture (i586 and x86_64) DVD. You can use it on both 32- and 64-bit x86 machines, the installer will 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 by pressing F3 then F6 at the boot prompt.
Size: 4.3 GiB
[edit] Mandriva 2007 Beta Installation CDs
Six dual architecture (i586 and x86_64) CDs. You can use them on both 32- and 64-bit x86 machines, the installer will 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
[edit] How do I 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). To use the installation DVD, burn it to a blank DVD. To use the installation CDs, burn each one to a separate blank CD, then boot from the first. You must configure your computer to boot from the CD/DVD drive. This can be done in the BIOS - see your computer or motherboard manual for instructions on how to access and use the BIOS configuration screen. Once booted, you can check that your hardware is correctly supported. If you used one of the One CDs and you now want to install to your hard drive, you can use the 'Install' function available on the desktop.
[edit] Test wanted
You are encouraged to test and comment on this beta release. Feedback should be posted in the form of bug reports to Bugzilla, or if it is not a type of feedback that can be expressed as a bug report, to the Cooker mailing list or to the Mandriva Club forums (which are open to posts from anyone with a my.mandriva.com account, not just Club members).
- 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 firmware (especially ATI and NVidia video cards, Intel centrino wireless ipw2100/2200 Wifi cards, Hsf modem...)
- Report any missing or unwanted software
[edit] 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.
Alternatively, if you only want to check the checksum of the iso downloaded, you can also use the mkcd program with the option -k. A checksum is included in the header of each iso file and can be verified with mkcd -k file.iso.
