The first beta of Mandriva (http://distrowatch.com/mandriva) Linux 2008.1 has been released: "The first beta, codenamed 'Ophrys', for Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is now available. Major new features in this pre-release include: new XML-based package meta-information system; out-of-the-box support for the multimedia keys present on many modern keyboards; Perl has been updated to 5.10; reverted to teTeX as the default TeX system; latest NVIDIA (169.09) and ATI (8.45.2) proprietary drivers; KDE 4.0.0 final available in the Cooker; the latest version of Nautilus, the GNOME file and desktop manager; Linux kernel 2.6.24-rc8 with ALSA 1.0.16-rc1." More information can be found on the 2008.1 beta page (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Beta_1) and also in the official release notes (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Notes). Download (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Beta_1#Availability) the installable live CDs (with either KDE or GNOME) from here: mandriva...KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso (ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mandrake/devel/iso/2008.1/beta1/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-beta1-one-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso) (671MB, MD5 (http://mirrors.kernel.org/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/2008.1/beta1/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-beta1-one-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso.md5)), mandriva...GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso (ftp://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/2008.1/beta1/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-beta1-one-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso) (679MB, MD5 (http://mirrors.kernel.org/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/2008.1/beta1/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-beta1-one-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso.md5)).

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Bem, vamos lá ver as novidades...
Só pelo KDE 4.0 vou experimentar :D
Esta gente com o KDE 4.0 acelerou (e muito) a saida de nova versões das distros :D

hummm..tb me parece que vou testar..com essas novidades todas...

Hei-de testar (a versão KDE) visto que para GNOME Ubuntu rula mas em KDE o Kubuntu tem muita falha de integração, visto ser feito às três pancadas...