The second alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 is now available

Source: www.distrowatch.com

The second alpha release of Mandriva  Linux 2010.1 is now available for download and testing: "The time has came for the second alpha release for the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As this is an early pre-release, major changes are mostly in the area of included third-party software. Planned changes to Mandriva's own tools and systems are not ready for inclusion in this public pre-release. Major new features: many improvements in guest account management - use of restricted shell, restricted access to other user's files, prevent access to most of Mandriva administration tools; desktop environments - GNOME 2.29.6, KDE 4.4 RC3; desktop applications - Firefox 3.6, OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta 3, Google Chromium; X Server - Nouveau driver is now used as a free driver for NVIDIA graphics cards instead of nv...."

See the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes. Download: mandriva-linux-free-2010.1-i586.iso (3,792MB, MD5), mandriva-linux-free-2010.1-x86_64.iso