Fwd: [rosa-devel] Mandriva Linux 2012 Alpha (Tenacious Underdog) released!

[Jon Dill]

fyi

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From: Per Øyvind Karlsen <pero...@mandriva.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM
Subject: [rosa-devel] Mandriva Linux 2012 Alpha (Tenacious Underdog) released!
To: coo...@mandrivalinux.org, "Maillist for ROSA developers." <rosa-...@lists.rosalab.ru>, unity...@googlegroups.com, found...@mandrivalinux.org

Hi, as many of you might already be aware of, our first Mandriva Linux 2012 alpha,

has been ready for release for almost a week now, yet it only made it's way to the

public mirrors today, so with that I declare it as officially released!

Some of the highlights since the previous release Mandriva Linux 2012 Tech Preview (Bernie Lomax;) includes:

* Faster, smaller & much improved installer

* Installer text mode is now working again

* A slimmer, much improved and fixed rescue mode

* Dual arch CD iso image has been much improved with a more complete set of papckages

filling it and also LXDE now shipped with it and installed by default

* Swith to linaro's gcc 4.7 branch has been completed

* HAL has finally been put to rest for good

* KDE 4.9.0

* We're still not dead!

* fons of other updates packages and bug fixes

This release has been almost two months delayed due to a complex amount of reasons that I won't even consider getting started on going into details on why, except for the one relating to our current build system getting terminally ill.

Due to the severity of this pressing issues and the consequences rising from it, we've decided to now focus fully on migrating awat to ROSA's ABF to replace it and give us a more powerful and actively maintained build system for us to use, which in addition also will mean that we're moving closer towards more direct collaboration with ROSA again.

Once we've finished this migration, it is expected for ROSA developers to play a more active and direct role in cooker development again, which should provide us with a much needed and very welcome increase in the amount of resources and  developers available to us again!

Otherwise it's worth mentioning that despite the embarassingly long delay of this alpha, our developers hasn't gotten lazy, so while our previous tech preview release received some very nice feedback on it's already very high quality, the quality of this Alpha is even higher (closer to what one would expect from a RC), while most of our most important features (from the less ambitious amount than usual, hopefully this this will be limited to 2012 release only) for the upcoming release already being in place.

Due to this we will skip the planned second alpha right ahead to the first beta release, while also most likely also skipping the third beta planned.

Following this, the final release is expected to be less than a month delayed from it's original schedule! :)

The roadmap with updated dates and specs is available at:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Linux_2012_Development

With this I declare Mandriva Linux 2012 Alpha (Tenacious Underdog) as released and I wish to thank everyone who's helped on making this possible!

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Regards,

Per Øyvind

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[OnlyHuman]

Odd I tried it in vbox new underdog and saw nothing about arch option,
I didn't seem to get the hang of the software manager, unless the repo
is very bare, tried to install scite just kept coming up not found,
gave up on it