Mandriva 2006 Coming Soon

The third beta build has been shipped for Mandriva 2006, the upcoming distro from Mandriva. Here are the changelog for the Beta 3 build:

# Mandriva Linux 2006 beta 3
* 250 bugs fixed since 2006-0.2
* 5621 packages rebuilt (811 ppc, 1681 x86_64, 614 noarch, 2506 i586)

# DrakX 1.1063 / Drakxtools 10.3-0.48mdk:
* Fix a bug for configuring Mouse
* Fix some modems firmwares loading
* Enhance grub device.map parsing (17732)
* Client tree edit fix (17653), Write to floppy (17655)
* Printerdrake,
* Removed stuff for automatic print queue setup when starting CUPS.
* When printerdrake's first-time dialog appears on plugging a USB printer, the user can now also turn off print queue auto-setup before starting printerdrake and so without needing the printing infrastructure to be installed.
* Added automatic setup of Ethernet-connected HP printers with HPLIP.
* When one chooses "Printer Connection Type" in the "Edit" menu of an Ethernet-connected printer which is under the control of HPLIP or HPOJ, "LOCAL" was pre-selected as connection type and not "SOCKET". Fixed.
* Made matching of detected printer model name with HPLIP database more reliable.
* Harddrake, use the new way to blacklist modules (12731)
* Packages installation, don't fork anymore to install rpms during install, use "nofsync" for rpm database (=> speedup x2)

# kernel 2.6.12-10mdk
* 2.6.12.5
* WARNING: Security Hyper-Threading enabled by default (at boot time use ht=off to disable)
* applied patch to cpufreq support centrino.
* ACL support to NFS
* XEN configs updated (enabled more options)
* only build xen on x86, will enable on x86_64 later
* Advertise the megaraid_mbox as megaraid_mbox (and not megaraid) in sysfs
* Ndiswrapper 1.2
* Updated ipw2100 to 1.1.2, ipw2200 to 1.0.6
* e100 and e1000 drivers update (e100 to 3.4.8-k2 and e1000 to 6.0.60-k2)
* Set the pwc driver to use non compressed mode by default.
* added XEN support
* resurrect legacy megaraid for { 0x9010, 0x9060, 0x1960 }

# GTK 2.8.0
# gaim 1.5.0
# sane 1.0.16
# epiphany 1.6.5
# kat 0.6.2
# amarok 1.3
# udev 068
# Now OpenOffice.org is included in the x86_64 ISO files
# DVD version have the Powerpack theme

Cool ha?
Well.. let's wait for some time before the final version that will be (i hope) released in next September (based on their release schedule). It will be a great release :)