[openmamba-users] Release: openmamba milestone2 2.0pre4

[Silvan Calarco]

The ISO images of the fouth pre-release of openmamba milestone 2 are available 
for download.

This new release adds the following new features:
- "longterm" 2.6.35.11 Linux kernel
- Linux kernel 2.6.37.6 can now be installed optionally by enabling the new 
milestone2-kernel channel
- KDE desktop environment 4.5.5
- network connections management is now based on NetworkManager in order to 
provide an integrated and simple solution for ethernet, wireless, mobile 
broadband, ADSL (PPPoE) and more
- 500+ software components updated

openmamba is available for PC (x86 compatibles) in english, italian and 
spanish languages. It is distributed as ISO images in livecd, livedvd and 
livegames flavours and can be freely downloaded from http://www.openmamba.org. 
The ISO images can be burnt on CD/DVD media or installed in a USB pendrive and 
used to boot a live system and install it.

A long and detailed list of changes is available on this page: 
http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/distromatic.html?tag=milestone2&changelog

I also would like to announce the availability of a couple of new weekly 
snapshot targets:
- openmamba SDK: a root filesystem that can be used as a development 
environment with many recent devices that are based on ARM compatible 
processors (tablets, smartphones, smartbooks and plug computers) which also 
provides a LXDE based graphical environment and NetworkManager, rpm and smart 
to allow the installation of the 1600+ openmamba packages that have been 
ported at the date (see 
http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/distromatic.html?tag=devel&arch=arm for 
the full list)
- openmamba livecd-light: a light openmamba release based on the LXDE 
graphical environment intended for use with computers which have less than 
512MB of RAM

openmamba head maintainer wants to say thanks to all the people who 
contributed in different ways to the development of this new release of 
openmamba. Beta testers and developers are welcome to help improve this 
project and can join by subscribing and writing to the development Lists 
(http://www.openmamba.org/lists/) or in the Forum 
(http://forum.openmamba.org).

Note: we are aware of download problems from our main server and a migration 
to a new more functional and performant infrastructure is due within the next 
weeks. Meanwhile we recommend people having such problems to use a download 
manager with resume capability and to make use of the information from page 
http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/download.html to perform a MD5 check of 
the downloaded files.

Silvan

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