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Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC1 first look

MandrivaThe Mandriva team released Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC1 on Thursday and here's a quick look at the Spring release. Some of the major updates in this release are KDE 3.5.6, OpenOffice.org 2.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.2. Mandriva Linux, for those who aren't aware of it's history, first started as and was formerly known as Mandrake Linux, a RedHat Linux based distribution. However, it has over the years matured into its own, and has it's own distinct tools (Rpmdrake, urpmi) and personality. Mandriva Linux is available in a few different flavors (Discovery, Powerpack, Powerpack+ and Mandriva One) which are subscription based, but is also of course available for free. The main advantages to the paid versions are additions of non-free software (such as DVD playback).

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