Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Tyr
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Linux 2007 Tyr is the third beta version for the Mandriva Linux 2007 release.
Note: Mandriva Linux 2007 rc1 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 two set of three CDs installation CDs for i586 and x86_64. 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
- Network module b44 is not working properly (fixed in cooker)
- Some menu entries are not yet displayed because the XDG migration is not finished
- The default index.html page for browser is not correctly generated (fixed in cooker)
- Anti Aliasing may not be activated correctly on KDE
[edit] Main changes
WARNING: Some One CDs have non-free (proprietary) drivers included, if you do not want to use non free software, be careful to only use the ISO images with the 'free' keyword included in their name.
The non-free drivers included are intended for hardware which cannot work properly without proprietary drivers or firmware. These devices include (but are not limited to) video cards, network cards and modems. If you do not want to be obliged to use proprietary drivers to run your computer properly, you should be careful to choose hardware which is officially supported by free drivers.
[edit] Changes from 2007 beta 2
- New 3D desktop support (both with AIGLX and Xgl) and new tool to configure it (drak3d)
- New One CD with 3D desktop support (AIGLX and Xgl, both on KDE and Gnome, autodetection of the best 3D solution)
- The new rpmdrake is now included
- More applications migrated to XDG menus
[edit] Changes from 2006
- GNOME 2.16 RC 1
- 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
- New 'Ia Ora' Mandriva Theme (still only included in GNOME)
- New VPN configuration tool (drakvpn)
- New Firewall to configure a redundant firewall with ucarp (invictus-firewall)
[edit] Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta One CDs
There are eleven 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 or two of the ten CDs. 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 Task. 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.
One CDs include most of the needed stuff for a complete office and internet desktop, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, 3D desktop (XGL and AIGLX with Compiz), network and hardware configuration tools and drivers (the free version only includes free drivers).
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-free-gnome.iso
Gnome Live CD for i586 and x86_64 processors.
Size: 672 MiB
Languages: English, Berber, Euskara (Basque), French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Greenlandic (inuit), Inuktitut, Maltese, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish, Walon
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-free-kde.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 702 MiB
Languages: English, Berber, Euskara (Basque), French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Greenlandic (inuit), Inuktitut, Maltese, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish, Walon
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-kde-1.iso
Warning: includes non free software
KDE Live CD for i586 and x86_64 processors.
Size: 697 MiB
Languages: English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-kde-2.iso
Warning: includes non free software
KDE Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 657 MiB
Languages: English, Furlan, Gaelic (Irish), Greenlandic (inuit), Inuktitut, Italian, Sardinian
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-kde-3.iso
Warning: includes non free software
KDE Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 704 MiB
Languages: English, Berber, Breton, French, German, Low Saxon, Occitan, Walon, Welsh
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-kde-4.iso
Warning: includes non free software
KDE Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 672 MiB
Languages: English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Nepali, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (cyrillic), Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-kde-5.iso
Warning: includes non free software
KDE Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 700 MiB
Languages: English, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azeri (Latin), Bengali, Farsi (Iranian), Georgian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Malay, Malayalam, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-gnome-1.iso
Warning: includes non free software
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 680 MiB
Languages: English, Berber, Breton, Catalan, Euskara (Basque), French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Greenlandic (inuit), Inuktitut, Maltese, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish, Walon, Welsh
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-gnome-2.iso
Warning: includes non free software
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 671 MiB
Languages: English, Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Euskara (Basque), Latvian, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Macedonian, Maltese, Romanian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-gnome-3.iso
Warning: includes non free software
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 680 MiB
Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish (Suomi), Frisian, Greek, Icelandic, Limbourgish, Norwegian Bokmaal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Saami, Swedish, Turkish
[edit] mandriva-one-2007-tyr-gnome-4.iso
Warning: includes non free software
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors and x86_64 processors.
Size: 689 MiB
Languages: English, Bulgarian, Furlan, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Russian
[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 for i586
Three CDs for i586 compatible processors. You can use them on 32 or 64 bit x86 machines. If you want to use complete 64 bit installation for a 64 bit machine, you must use the x86_64 specific CDs.
Size: 3x700 MiB
[edit] Mandriva 2007 Beta Installation CDs for x86_64
Three CDs for x86_64 compatible processors. You must use them on 64 bit x86 machines. If you want to use a 32 bit installation on a 64 bit machine, you must use the i586 specific CDs.
Size: 3x700 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 'Live install' function available on the desktop.
[edit] Testing 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 some of these ISO files only include free software, you may need to check with your hardware manufacturer for the appropriate drivers or firmware (especially for ATI and NVidia video cards, Intel Centrino wireless ipw2100/2200 WiFi adapters, Hsf modems...)
- 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.
