The development team of Mandriva has released Alpha 2 of Mandriva Linux 2010. It is now available on public mirrors.

According to the developers this Alpha 2 release is released sooner than expected.

The following components are been updated in Alpha 2:

• KDE 4.3 RC 3

• GNOME 2.27.5, including new client-side window GTK+ feature (help to prevent flickering)

• Kernel 2.6.31 rc4

• Xorg 1.6.3 with latest driver for Intel graphic chipset (should improve performance & stability)

You will find detailed information about Alpha 2 on the Mandriva wiki.

You can download Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 2 here.

Mandriva Linux 2010 is planned to be released on November 3rd, 2009.