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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">2011.0 Notes</h1>
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<table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Mandriva_Linux_2011_Release_Notes"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Mandriva Linux 2011 Release Notes</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Editions"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Editions</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#One_Edition"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">One Edition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Free_Edition"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Free Edition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#System_requirements"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">System requirements</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Deprecation"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Deprecation</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Available_media"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Available media</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Upgrading"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Upgrading</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Upgrading_from_previous_releases"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Upgrading from previous releases</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#General_Upgrade_Steps"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">General Upgrade Steps</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#Upgrade_using_the_command_line:_urpmi"><span class="tocnumber">5.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Upgrade using the command line: urpmi</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#Advanced_upgrade_options"><span class="tocnumber">5.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Advanced upgrade options</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#End_of_life_distributions"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">End of life distributions</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Mandriva_tools"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Mandriva tools</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Mandriva_installer"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Mandriva installer</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_dd"><span class="tocnumber">7.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Create a bootable flash drive via dd</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_livecd-iso-to-disk"><span class="tocnumber">7.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Create a bootable flash drive via livecd-iso-to-disk</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#SimpleWelcome"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">SimpleWelcome</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#TimeFrame"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">TimeFrame</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#RocketBar"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">RocketBar</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#StackFolder"><span class="tocnumber">7.5</span> <span class="toctext">StackFolder</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Sphere"><span class="tocnumber">7.6</span> <span class="toctext">Sphere</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Improver"><span class="tocnumber">7.7</span> <span class="toctext">Improver</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#MandrivaSync"><span class="tocnumber">7.8</span> <span class="toctext">MandrivaSync</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Mandriva_Package_Manager"><span class="tocnumber">7.9</span> <span class="toctext">Mandriva Package Manager</span></a></li>
</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Desktop_environments"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Desktop environments</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#KDE"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span> <span class="toctext">KDE</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Desktop_applications"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Desktop applications</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#LibreOffice"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">LibreOffice</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Mozilla_Firefox"><span class="tocnumber">9.2</span> <span class="toctext">Mozilla Firefox</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Mozilla_Thunderbird"><span class="tocnumber">9.3</span> <span class="toctext">Mozilla Thunderbird</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Clementine"><span class="tocnumber">9.4</span> <span class="toctext">Clementine</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#PiTiVi_video_editor"><span class="tocnumber">9.5</span> <span class="toctext">PiTiVi video editor</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Shotwell"><span class="tocnumber">9.6</span> <span class="toctext">Shotwell</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#KNetworkmanager"><span class="tocnumber">9.7</span> <span class="toctext">KNetworkmanager</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Choqok"><span class="tocnumber">9.8</span> <span class="toctext">Choqok</span></a></li>
</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Base_system"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Base system</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#X_server"><span class="tocnumber">10.1</span> <span class="toctext">X server</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Kernel_2.6.38.7"><span class="tocnumber">10.2</span> <span class="toctext">Kernel 2.6.38.7</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Systemd"><span class="tocnumber">10.3</span> <span class="toctext">Systemd</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#RPM5"><span class="tocnumber">10.4</span> <span class="toctext">RPM5</span></a></li>
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<a name="Mandriva_Linux_2011_Release_Notes" id="Mandriva_Linux_2011_Release_Notes"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Mandriva Linux 2011 Release Notes </span></h1>
<a name="Introduction" id="Introduction"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Introduction </span></h2>
<p>This page contains important information for the Mandriva Linux (<span style="color: #009999; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">2011.0</span>) release, code name <b>Hydrogen</b>.
</p><p>The following topics are covered:
</p>
<ul><li> General information about new features and major changes.
</li><li> Changes to the Mandriva installer and upgrade instructions for users of previous releases.
</li><li> Changes to supported hardware and drivers.
</li><li> Changes regarding software packages.
</li><li> Other technical information for experienced users.
</li></ul>
<p>Please also refer to Mandriva Linux 2011 Errata - the Errata for the 2011 release. The Errata page contains information on known bugs and problems in this release and instructions on fixing, avoiding or working around them.
</p><p>For a more detailed and graphical introduction to the most obvious user-visible changes in this release, please see the Release Tour.
</p>
<a name="Editions" id="Editions"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Editions </span></h1>
<p>Mandriva Desktop Linux 2011 is available in several different editions, listed below.
</p>
<a name="One_Edition" id="One_Edition"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> One Edition </span></h2>
<p>The <b><a href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/one/|One" class="external text" title="http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/one/|One" rel="nofollow">edition</a></b> is an installable live CD integrating some proprietary packages and is available free of charge.
</p>
<a name="Free_Edition" id="Free_Edition"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Free Edition </span></h2>
<p>The <b><a href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/free/|Free" class="external text" title="http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/free/|Free" rel="nofollow">edition</a></b> is a pure free / open source software edition, without any of the non-free packages bundled with the other editions, available as a free download.
</p><p>For more information on the various editions, see Choosing the right edition.
</p><p>Additional information is also available online:
</p>
<ul><li> The <a href="http://forum.mandriva.com|" class="external text" title="http://forum.mandriva.com|" rel="nofollow">Mandriva User Forums</a>
</li><li> The <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com|" class="external text" title="http://wiki.mandriva.com|" rel="nofollow">Mandriva Wiki</a>
</li></ul>
<a name="System_requirements" id="System_requirements"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> System requirements </span></h2>
<ul><li> 640 MB RAM (recommends 1Gb)
</li><li> 8 GB free HDD space
</li><li> VGA display with resolution 1024x768
</li><li> Keyboard, mouse
</li><li> DVD/flash for installation
</li></ul>
<p><br />
</p>
<a name="Deprecation" id="Deprecation"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Deprecation </span></h1>
<p>GNOME, Xfce and other Desktop Environments (DE) and Window Managers (WM) are no longer included in the official Mandriva packages. Contribution packages from the Mandriva community are available for these desktop environments however. Starting from Mandriva Desktop 2011 only KDE4 is officially supported. If you need Mandriva with another DE or WM you can use unofficial packages or distributions prepared by community members (which are described below).
</p><p><br />
</p>
<a name="Available_media" id="Available_media"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Available media </span></h1>
<p>This release is available:
</p>
<ul><li> As Free live-DVD for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, on one DVD each.
</li><li> As One live-DVD for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, on one DVD each.
</li></ul>
<a name="Upgrading" id="Upgrading"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Upgrading </span></h1>
<a name="Upgrading_from_previous_releases" id="Upgrading_from_previous_releases"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Upgrading from previous releases </span></h2>
<p>Upgrading between releases always has the potential to cause some problems. Upgrading is supported and we do test upgrades, but due to the huge range of possible packages and hardware configurations ,it is always the case that in your particular situation, the upgrade may cause a problem we did not anticipate. Therefore we recommend that you always <b>back up your system prior to upgrading</b>.
</p><p>If you tested one of the Mandriva Desktop 2011 pre-releases (beta or RC), we advise you to remove all package sources and add them back using the <span style="color: green; font-weight: bold;">Mandriva Control Center <img alt="Image:Drakconf-icon.png" src="/en/uploads/f/f2/Drakconf-icon.png" width="36" height="36" border="0" /> &gt; Software Management &gt; Configure media sources for install and update</span> to be sure you have stable release media sources.
</p>
<a name="General_Upgrade_Steps" id="General_Upgrade_Steps"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> General Upgrade Steps </span></h2>
<p>After taking the necessary precautions pointed out above, you can upgrade using the Free or Powerpack editions respective DVD's, and it should work well. You can also upgrade on-line. What that means is that the Mandriva update notification applet, Mandriva Online, will notify you that a new Mandriva Linux release (2011) is available, and ask if you wish to upgrade. If you agree, the upgrade will be carried out from within your running system, just like a regular system update. You should then be able to reboot into a working 2011 system. If you have disabled the applet or it is not automatically running for some reason, you can upgrade manually either using the GUI or the CLI. Both methods are outlined below.
</p>
<a name="Upgrade_using_the_command_line:_urpmi" id="Upgrade_using_the_command_line:_urpmi"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Upgrade using the command line: urpmi </span></h3>
<p>You can upgrade using urpmi in a terminal. Below are the steps you need to follow:
</p>
<ul><li> First ensure your system is entirely up-to-date with the latest updates (when upgrading it's assumed that you have the latest updates available for your installed release, so for a smoother upgrade always make sure you have the latest updates) using this command as root in terminal:
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">urpmi --auto-update -v</span>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> Remove your existing repositories, either using:
<ul><li> The <span style="color: green; font-weight: bold;">Mandriva Control Center <img alt="Image:Drakconf-icon.png" src="/en/uploads/f/f2/Drakconf-icon.png" width="36" height="36" border="0" /> &gt; Software Management &gt; Configure media sources for install and update</span> OR
</li><li> Using this command as root:
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">urpmi.removemedia -av</span>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> Add 2011.0 repositories. To do this, use <a href="http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/" class="external text" title="http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/" rel="nofollow">Easy URPMI</a>. Set the Version field to 2011 also make sure the Architecture field is set correctly then click <b>Add official medias</b>. Next <i>open</i> the file it offers you with the default handler (gurpmi aka Software Installer).
</li></ul>
<ul><li> To start the upgrade process, run the following command, as root:
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">urpmi --auto --auto-update --replacefiles 2&gt;&amp;1 &#124; tee upgrade.log</span>
</dd></dl>
<p>This will save the output of the process to the file upgrade.log in the current directory, in case you need to check it later, or you have any problems. Once the process completes (without errors), you should reboot, and you should find the system has been fully updated to 2011.
</p>
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<div style="margin-left:54px"><b>Caution&nbsp;!</b><br />
If you get any errors you should try and fix them before you reboot so as not to end up with a broken system e.g. without a graphical desktop (text console, aka tty, always works and can be used to fix most problems but is not as easy to use as a graphical desktop).</div></div>
<a name="Advanced_upgrade_options" id="Advanced_upgrade_options"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Advanced upgrade options </span></h3>
<ul><li> You can add <span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">--download-all</span> to the above command when upgrading, this is a brand new option in urpmi and will make it download all the packages first before trying to install them, this is useful in the case of internet connection failure during the upgrade process, since you can just relaunch the command and continue the process. Be aware though that this will requires quite some free space on the root / partition. Notice that urpmi displays info about the total size of the packages it's going to download, 10GB would usually be enough, but that depends on how many packages you have installed. You can also specify a location to download the rpms, in case the / partition is full and you have more free space say in your /home, you can do this using:
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">urpmi -v --auto-update --download-all /path/to/download/folder</span>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> Another option, <span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">--noclean</span>, will make urpmi not delete the rpms it downloads, you can then copy the rpms from <i>/var/cache/urpmi/rpms</i> to another machine and use them when upgrading. To use the cached rpms in a different installation, first remove the old sources and add the new ones as was explained above, then use one of the following methods:
<ul><li> Copy the rpms to <i>/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/</i> on the machine you want to upgrade so that urpmi detects that they're already present and doesn't re-download them
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><i>OR</i>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li><ul><li> Add the directory containing the rpms as a urpmi source, you can do so using something like this:
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">urpmi.addmedia -v local-repo <i>/path/to/directory/containing/the/cached/rpms</i></span>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li><ul><li> replace <i>/path/to/directory/containing/the/cached/rpms</i> with the actual path to the cached rpms directory.
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
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<div style="margin-left:54px"><b>Please note!</b><br />
Due to the compatibility reasons, some new packages will not be installed. In this list: systemd, knetworkmanager. If you need a full functionality of Mandriva 2011 you need to install these packages manually.</div></div>
<p><br />
</p>
<a name="End_of_life_distributions" id="End_of_life_distributions"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> End of life distributions </span></h1>
<p>When your distribution is no more officially supported (aka reached its <a href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/mandriva-product-lifetime-policy" class="external text" title="http://www.mandriva.com/en/mandriva-product-lifetime-policy" rel="nofollow">end of life</a>), a notification will be displayed through the mdkonline applet. It will offer to upgrade to a supported release. Currently 2009.0 will no longer receive desktop updates but will continue to receive base and security updates. 2008.1 and older releases have reached their End of Life and will no longer receive updates.
</p>
<a name="Mandriva_tools" id="Mandriva_tools"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Mandriva tools </span></h1>
<a name="Mandriva_installer" id="Mandriva_installer"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Mandriva installer </span></h2>
<p>Version 2011 of Mandriva uses a hybrid iso-image. It allows to you to use it in various ways:
</p>
<ul><li> as live-DVD (with possibility to install from live mode)
</li><li> as install-DVD
</li><li> as image for flash where you can boot to the live and/or install modes
</li></ul>
<p>To create live/install-DVD, you can use your favorite CD/DVD writer ( for more information, see the section called <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" class="external text" title="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" rel="nofollow">Writing CD and DVD images</a>).
To create bootable flash drive, you can use several methods:
</p>
<a name="Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_dd" id="Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_dd"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Create a bootable flash drive via dd </span></h3>
<p>For creation of a bootable flash drive using 'dd' command, open console and type the next commands:
</p>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">dd if=/path/to/iso/image of=/path/to/flash/drive bs=1M </span>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<a name="Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_livecd-iso-to-disk" id="Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_livecd-iso-to-disk"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Create a bootable flash drive via livecd-iso-to-disk </span></h3>
<p>For creation a bootable flash drive using 'livecd-iso-to-disk' command, open console and type the next commands:
</p>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">su -</span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-family: courier; color: #7a4707; background-color: #e8e8e8;">livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/iso/image /path/to/flash/drive </span>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<p>Where <i>/path/to/iso/image</i> paths to a your copy of Mandriva iso-image and <i>/path/to/flash/drive</i> - path to your flash drive (usually it is /dev/sdb).
</p>
<a name="SimpleWelcome" id="SimpleWelcome"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> SimpleWelcome </span></h2>
<p>SimpleWelcome is the completely new kickoff menu which is used in Mandriva 2011 instead of Kickoff. Compare to Kickoff, SimpleWelcome has many benefits:
</p>
<ul><li> Simplicity
</li><li> Clearness
</li><li> Good look
</li><li> Tolerance for the newbies
</li></ul>
<p>While it has many features, you do not need to learn how to work with the SimpleWelcome. SimpleWelcome is a very simple application - like its name.
</p>
<a name="TimeFrame" id="TimeFrame"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> TimeFrame </span></h2>
<p>TimeFrame is a new utility for Nepomuk. It allows you not to think in which folder you saved your photography, video or documents.
You need only a date. If you know the date you will find everything. Information in TimeFrame is represented in "cloud" form, thus you can easily find what you need.
</p>
<a name="RocketBar" id="RocketBar"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> RocketBar </span></h2>
<p>RocketBar is a next step in the KDE panel development. It has many new superb features:
</p>
<ul><li> A 'program oriented' interface. RocketBar is divided in 3 zones. If you add an icon to the left zone it will not appear on the central zone while the application is running. If you run an application, using an icon that you don't have in the left zone, it will appear in the central zone.
</li><li> Possibility to increase panel height as you wish. No more limitation in panel size.
</li><li> Complete compositing effects support.
</li></ul>
<a name="StackFolder" id="StackFolder"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> StackFolder </span></h2>
<p>StackFolder is the next step in development of plasma-applet-folderview. It allows the user to obtain quick access to the frequently used directories. To use StaskFolder just drag-and-drop a folder from Dolphin file manager to the panel.
</p>
<a name="Sphere" id="Sphere"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Sphere </span></h2>
<p>Mandriva Sphere is the client for technical support. It allows the user to address directly to the technical support on several languages. For now it's available in two languages:
</p>
<ul><li> English
</li><li> Russian.
</li></ul>
<p>Language is chosen automatically based on system locale settings. It is planned to add main European languages support in future releases.
</p><p>Users may use client in two modes:
</p>
<ul><li> anonymous (ticket tracking is based on provided email address)
</li><li> authorized with dedicated support account.
</li></ul>
<a name="Improver" id="Improver"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Improver </span></h2>
<p><a href="http://wiki.rosalab.ru/index.php/Improver_(English_version)" class="external text" title="http://wiki.rosalab.ru/index.php/Improver_(English_version)" rel="nofollow">Improver</a> is a software and hardware reporting tool for finding errors in Mandriva and Rosa software by community users. It consists in&nbsp;:
</p>
<ul><li> client software
</li><li> server applications
</li><li> web-application
</li></ul>
<p>Client software is a GUI utility called Improver_client. It creates a user account, downloads testing plans from the server, and collects the hardware and system data from the user's PC.
The user can select desired testing plan from the available list, fills report, then the program sends it to the Improver's server. The web interface provides a public access for statistical summary about errors in Mandriva.
</p>
<a name="MandrivaSync" id="MandrivaSync"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> MandrivaSync </span></h2>
<p>MandrivaSync is the cloud service from Mandriva. Like Ubuntu One, Apple iCloud and Dropbox it allows the user to store its data on the Mandriva's servers. Then, the user can get access to its data from any device that have MandrivaSync Client or access to the internet. Main features:
</p>
<ul><li> 2 Gb of free space for the any MandrivaSync user.
</li><li> Possibility to get access to the data from the any device with MandrivaSync Client (currently only in Mandriva Desktop 2011) or through web-browser.
</li><li> Personal room.
</li><li> Possibility to specify an object for the synchronization and set auto-synchronization time.
</li></ul>
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<div style="margin-left:54px"><b>Please note!</b><br />
Currently service is in beta version only. We still not recommend to use it for the everyday work. Follow the news!</div></div>
<a name="Mandriva_Package_Manager" id="Mandriva_Package_Manager"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Mandriva Package Manager </span></h2>
<p>Mandriva Package Manager (MPM) is a new package manager for Mandriva. Currently it is under heavy development and is not included in the distribution by default, but you can install it from repository.
Please, help us to test MPM. After some period of testing we will include it into Mandriva by default (approximately into Mandriva 2011 LTS).
</p>
<a name="Desktop_environments" id="Desktop_environments"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Desktop environments </span></h1>
<a name="KDE" id="KDE"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> KDE </span></h2>
<p>KDE 4.6.5 is an upgrade in stability and functionality over KDE 4.4.5. This release will add many new features to KDE 4 with some brand new features. It should also provide a more stable desktop experience than KDE 4.4.5.
</p><p>Nepomuk integration: Nepomuk technology has been further integrated. You will be able to organize your desktop depending on your projects, annotate documents, watch your documents, photos and videos through TimeFrame, search files in the Dolphin file manager and more.
</p><p><br />
</p>
<a name="Desktop_applications" id="Desktop_applications"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Desktop applications </span></h1>
<a name="LibreOffice" id="LibreOffice"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> LibreOffice </span></h2>
<p>Mandriva 2011 comes with LibreOffice 3.4.2. Compared to LibreOffice 3.2 in Mandriva 2010.2 it has many <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/" class="external text" title="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/" rel="nofollow">new features and improvements</a>, which can made your work easier.
LibreOffice 3.4.2 offers several new features for Calc, with faster performances and an improved compatibility with Excel spreadsheets, and Pivot Table – the new name of DataPilot – with support for unlimited numbers of fields and named range as data source.
The user interface of Writer, Impress and Draw has been improved with many new features, and several cosmetic changes have been applied, with a better text rendering engine and an improved GTK+ theme integration.
</p>
<a name="Mozilla_Firefox" id="Mozilla_Firefox"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Mozilla Firefox </span></h2>
<p>As default internet browser Mandriva uses Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1. It was greatly improved since version 3.5 that is used in Mandriva 2010.2. New look, new features and, of course, it has great speed and security.
</p>
<a name="Mozilla_Thunderbird" id="Mozilla_Thunderbird"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Mozilla Thunderbird </span></h2>
<p>Instead of KMail, Mozilla Thunderbird is used as default mail client in Mandriva 2011. It has a many features which can be even improved without end due thanks to the powerful plugin system.
</p>
<a name="Clementine" id="Clementine"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Clementine </span></h2>
<p>Amarok was changed by <a href="http://www.clementine-player.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.clementine-player.org/" rel="nofollow">Clementine</a>. Clementine is inspired by Amarok version 1.4. Its much lighter and stable than Amarok.
In spite of ease, it has many functions:
</p>
<ul><li> Search and play your local music library.
</li><li> Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo и Icecast.
</li><li> Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
</li><li> Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
</li><li> CUE sheet support.
</li><li> Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
</li><li> Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
</li><li> Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organize your music.
</li><li> Copy your files directly to your pendrive/mobile...
</li><li> Queue manager.
</li></ul>
<p>And many more.
</p>
<a name="PiTiVi_video_editor" id="PiTiVi_video_editor"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> PiTiVi video editor </span></h2>
<p><a href="http://www.pitivi.org" class="external text" title="http://www.pitivi.org" rel="nofollow">PiTiVi</a> is a simple video editor. It has efficient and intuitive user interface and is carefully designed to suit both the newcomer and the professional. While it has a simple interface PiTiVi has enough features for your creativity:
</p>
<ul><li> Unlimited video/audio track layers
</li><li> Full undo/redo history
</li><li> General clip manipulation
</li><li> Trimming, splitting/cutting
</li><li> Snapping
</li><li> Scrubbing
</li><li> Linking/grouping of clips
</li><li> Video effects
</li><li> Audio effects
</li></ul>
<ul><li> And many <a href="http://www.pitivi.org/?go=features" class="external text" title="http://www.pitivi.org/?go=features" rel="nofollow">many</a> more.
</li></ul>
<a name="Shotwell" id="Shotwell"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Shotwell </span></h2>
<p>DigiKam was changed by <a href="http://yorba.org/shotwell/" class="external text" title="http://yorba.org/shotwell/" rel="nofollow">Shotwell</a> in Mandriva 2011. Shotwell is a new standard for the photo management in free software. Being one of such products like iPhoto it gives to user the most powerful experience. It lets you import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others and much more.
</p>
<a name="KNetworkmanager" id="KNetworkmanager"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> KNetworkmanager </span></h2>
<p>For managing the network connections in Mandriva 2011 uses NetworkManager+Knetworkmanager applet. It has several advantages over net_applet by Mandriva and better consistency with the system in a whole.
</p>
<a name="Choqok" id="Choqok"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Choqok </span></h2>
<p>Everyone has a microbloging account, so, starting this release, we ship choqok, a microbloging client. It is well integrated in KDE, runs quietly in the systemtray. You don't need to open a web-browser to share your thinks, do it directly from your desktop.
</p><p><br />
</p>
<a name="Base_system" id="Base_system"></a><h1> <span class="mw-headline"> Base system </span></h1>
<a name="X_server" id="X_server"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> X server </span></h2>
<p>X.Org 7.6 with X.Org X Server 1.10.3 is used in Mandriva Linux 2011.0 along with new drivers version for Intel,Nvidia and AMD/ATI graphic chipsets that should improve performance and stability.
</p>
<a name="Kernel_2.6.38.7" id="Kernel_2.6.38.7"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Kernel 2.6.38.7 </span></h2>
<p>Mandriva 2011 comes with kernel <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38" class="external text" title="http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38" rel="nofollow">2.6.38</a>. It has many improvements comparing to 2.6.33 which is used in Mandriva 2010.2. Of course, the most notable changes are improvements in hardware support, including ongoing improvements to support more LAN, Wi-Fi, audio, video hardware and many improvements with Brtfs,XFS,EXT3, EX4 file systems support.
</p>
<a name="Systemd" id="Systemd"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Systemd </span></h2>
<p>The service manager Sysvinit is replaced by <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd" class="external text" title="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd" rel="nofollow">systemd</a> in Mandriva 2011. Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
</p>
<a name="RPM5" id="RPM5"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> RPM5 </span></h2>
<p>Starting from platform 2011 Mandriva uses RPM5 as default package manager. It has several advantages over RPM4 and gives to developers a more flexible environment to work.
</p>
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