AdamWill writes "The Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2, marking the first public pre-release of the approaching Mandriva Linux 2009. This alpha introduces several expressive changes, most evidently the inclusion of KDE 4 — 4.1 beta 2, specifically — as the default version of KDE, and the latest expedition version of GNOME, 2.23.4. The kernel has also been updated to release 2.6.26rc7. Another feature of interest to many users will be the addition of orphan package astronomical station (and optional automatic removal) to the urpmi package manager. Of course, many applications have been updated (although the default version of Mozilla Firefox is still currently 2.0.x), and most of the disposal has been rebuilt with a new GCC version, 4.3. Mandriva warns that this is a true alpha, likely to contain many bugs related to the new version of KDE. Please install it only in a test environment, and especially do not use it as an upgrade from any earlier Mandriva Linux release."

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