Mandriva Linux Eugeni Dodonov has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2011: "I am pleased to announce that the DVD images of Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1 just went out and should be available in the devel/isos/2011 directory on your favorite mirror shortly. As promised some weeks ago, Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1 is following the lead of Mandriva 2011 Technical Preview, sorting out some of the issues we noticed in it. Besides all the features present in the Technical Preview, this Alpha 1 also brings: latest kernel 2.6.37; RPM 5.3.8; NetworkManager 0.8.2 with Mandriva integration plugin; systemd 17, enabled and activated by default; KDE SC 4.6.0 and Xfce 4.8; GCC 4.5.2 with plugins enabled by default; Chromium browser provided in a versioning scheme to match the one used in the Google Chrome project; Firefox 4.0b11; OpenSSL 1.0.0d; Wine 1.3.13."
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