Download Mandrake Linux 9.0 RC2

4AMD sent us to the Mandrake homepage, where version 9.0 Release Candidate 2 of the Linux distro has appeared. Since the changelog, as we are used to from Linux changelogs, is quite large, it’s a better idea if you here clicks.

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

[break]If you do want to try this out, you can get the first CD here, the second here and the third here.