{"id":701,"date":"2011-04-26T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=701"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:55:08","slug":"mageia-1-beta2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/04\/26\/mageia-1-beta2\/","title":{"rendered":"And now it&#8217;s time for beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second beta release of Mageia is now <a href=\"http:\/\/mageia.org\/downloads\/\">available for download and testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mageia.org\/downloads\/\">Go get it<\/a>!<\/h3>\n<h3>What&#8217;s new?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lots of bug fixes and software updates<\/strong>! Kernel\u00a0\ufeff\ufeff2.6.38.4, LibreOffice 3.3.2.2, KDE 4.6.2, Firefox 4.0, Chromium browser\u00a0\ufeff12.0.742.0 and many more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We froze the software package versions last week<\/strong>. This means that no new, big, upstream code changes will be accepted in Mageia until our final release in June; then we will re-open the doors. We will now focus on fixing and reducing our bugs lists and refining and polishing the user experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are setting up our security team<\/strong> so it&#8217;s ready for the final release; secteam&#8217;s job is to validate and push software security updates to your Mageia 1 installations.<\/p>\n<h3>Test it!<\/h3>\n<p>We need you to finalise this first release cycle! You as a tester, as a new user, as a contributor. This is the last week to check the following items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is your favourite piece of software included? there&#8217;s still time to add some!<\/li>\n<li>how does the upgrade feel like, starting from Mandriva Linux 2010.1 and 2010.2 to Mageia 1 beta 2? see\u00a0our <a href=\"http:\/\/mageia.org\/wiki\/doku.php?id=qa_upgrade\">upgrade test page<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>are your computers and peripherals properly recognised and handled by Mageia?<\/li>\n<li>how does the installation process feel to you? (see our <a href=\"http:\/\/mageia.org\/wiki\/doku.php?id=qa_install\">testing procedure<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Feel free to get in touch with us!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>via our development mailing-list;<\/li>\n<li>via IRC, on\u00a0<a href=\"irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/#mageia-dev\">#mageia-dev<\/a> on the Freenode server;<\/li>\n<li>via <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mageia.org\/\">our forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.mageia.org\">our Bugzilla<\/a><\/li>\n<li>or catch one of us in Bordeaux, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Edinburgh, Genoa, Knoxville, Leuven, London, Lille, Lyon, Mexico, Moscow, Nanterre, Paris, Tampere or in many other places (beware: this method may require some coffee, beer or other beverage to work properly).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Mageia 1 final will be available in 35 days! \\o\/<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second beta release of Mageia is now available for download and testing. Go get it! What&#8217;s new? 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