Mandrake hat den 2. und letzten <a href="http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90rc.php3" TARGET="b">Release Candidate</a> bereitgestellt. In den nächsten 2-3 Wochen wird die lange erwartete 9.0 Final wahrscheinlich fertig sein.
<ul><i>MandrakeSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the second Release Candidate of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.0. This RC2 is the last chance to influence 9.0's development by contributing your reports and suggestions.
For this final testing session, the development team requests that beta testers focus on recent improvements to the installation "Upgrade" mode.
Please test the ability to upgrade from previous versions of Mandrake Linux to 9.0 RC2, then send us your feedback.
The full installation changelog is available <a href="http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/changelog/rc2.txt" TARGET="b">here</a>. You can also browse the <a href="http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/changelog/rc2-packages.txt" TARGET="b">package-oriented changelog</a>.
To prove that beta testing isn't all drudgery, 9.0 RC2 includes a bevy of exciting applications to play
with, including:
New DrakConf
Many new & improved configuration utilities
XFree86 4.2.1
KDE 3.0.2
GNOME 2.0
Mozilla 1.1
Apache 1.3.26 & Apache 2.0.40
Evolution 1.0.8
Galeon 1.2.5
OpenOffice.org 1.0.1
KOffice 1.2
Shorewall firewall utility
GCC 3.2
And lots more waiting to be discovered</i></ul>