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Monday, 09 November 2009 23:40

Here’s what 2010 has for you.

Faster, sexier.

Get ready to be impressed by your system! It starts faster than ever! Mandriva provides three different themes designed by a professional to improve your user experience: choose the one you like! If you don't find the one that suits you, choose among all the wallpapers available.

GNOME 2.28.1.

  • As a preview of GNOME 3.0, you can have a look on gnome-shell whose main goal is to redefine users interactions with his desktop.
  • Tomboy now can sync your notes with the Snowy web service
  • Pitivi video editor has been updated to version 0.13.1 which includes a complete core rewrite. Lots of interesting improvements for end users are in the pipeline for next versions.
  • Empathy is now installed by default instead of Pidgin

KDE.

KDE 4.3.2 is an upgrade in stability and functionality over KDE 4.2. Many new features to KDE 4, including some that were notably present in KDE 3 but lacking in KDE 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, along with some brand new features. It should also provide a more stable desktop experience than KDE 4.2.

  • Data migration from KDE 3: data will be backuped and migrated to KDE 4 (user preferences, mails, ...)
  • Hourly background switch: a new plasmoïd, plasma-wallpaper-timeoftheday, to have hourly switch of backgrounds (in desktop configuration menu)
  • Nepomuk integration: Nepomuk technology has been further integrated. You will be able to organize your desktop depending on your projects, annotate documents, ... Complete information
  • Amarok 2.2 final release: many bug fixes and at last ability back to read Cds.
  • Kmymoney2: it has been removed as it's much too unstable for now. It has been replaced by skrooge. You can safely export your data from kmymoney and import it in skrooge.
  • KMess MSN Live instant messenger 2.0.0.
  • KOffice 2.0.1
  • Digikam 1.0

Moblin.

Moblin is a desktop environment specially designed for netbooks and MIDs. Minimizes boot time and power consumption.

Smart Desktop.

Your desktop is even more smarter and helps you in your every day activities. Your have many documents, mails, data, pictures, videos. You can now organize them according to your projects. Add notes, comments, tags in few mouse clics. Your data will then be available lot more easier just when you need them.

OpenOffice makes every day more open.

Mandriva Linux 2010 includes Go-OO branch of the popular OpenOffice.org. That means more features, like SVG support, 3D transitions, VBA support, KDE 4 integration and Includes useful extensions.

Configure your desktop.

Mandriva Control Center is an exclusive feature of Mandriva Linux. It becomes even more easy to setup your system, network and hardware.

The RPMDrake software manager gives you access to more than 20,000 software packages. Your printer is automatically detected and can be configured in few clicks. Internet has never been as easier: connect to the Internet either in broadband, Wi-Fi or 3G.

You've never been as secure: your are protected from spywares and virus thanks to the built-in firewall. And thanks to the parental control, your children can have access safely to the Internet.