Some of the most important and popular distributions of Linux are scheduled to release a final version of its new system for the month of April. A few days ago he left the new Mandriva, we Fedora 9 in just five days, and in less than two weeks we will see Ubuntu Hardy.
Look warming your bandwidth because the new versions come loaded with novelties.
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring? April 7
Mandriva strong start this spring by releasing its new Spring 2008 edition a few days ago. It comes with support for the EEA Asus and prepared for synchronization with cell phones and devices running on Windows Mobile 5 / 6.
In addition, Mandriva 2008 used for the first time PulseAudio sound infrastructure, which significantly improves the overall management of the sound on the desktop. Since the official site indicen also major improvements in the tools for installation and removal of software, manager of Internet connections and the installer's operating system, which detects if other Linux distributions installed on the hard drive and adds to boot menu.
Main features of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring:
Fedora, distribution promoted and supported by Red Hat comes with a tool to manage and resize partitions with filesystems ext2, ext3 and NTFS. In addition, it incorporates significant improvements in the management of bluetooth devices and support for the encryption system files.
For this version was also decided to delete references to the codecs? Non-free? Fluendo programme of Codeine, which is a decision that is causing considerable discussion among users. Another major change is the replacement of SysVinit by Upstart as demon start and Package Kit, a tool to facilitate the management of software between different systems using the native tools for each.
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