Beta3 Release notes:

• Summary:
  • 250 bugs fixed since 2006-0.2
  • 5621 packages rebuilt (811 ppc, 1681 x86_64, 614 noarch, 2506 i586)
• DrakX 1.1063 / Drakxtools 10.3-0.48mdk:
  • Fix a bug for configuring Mouse
  • Fix some modems firmwares loading
  • Enhance grub device.map parsing (17732)
  • Client tree edit fix (17653), Write to floppy (17655)
  • Printerdrake,
    • Removed stuff for automatic print queue setup when starting CUPS.
    • When printerdrake's first-time dialog appears on plugging a USB printer, the user can now also turn off print queue auto-setup before starting printerdrake and so without needing the printing infrastructure to be installed.
    • Added automatic setup of Ethernet-connected HP printers with HPLIP.
    • When one chooses "Printer Connection Type" in the "Edit" menu of an Ethernet-connected printer which is under the control of HPLIP or HPOJ, "LOCAL" was pre-selected as connection type and not "SOCKET". Fixed.
    • Made matching of detected printer model name with HPLIP database more reliable.
  • Harddrake, use the new way to blacklist modules (12731)
  • Packages installation, don't fork anymore to install rpms during install, use "nofsync" for rpm database (=> speedup x2)
• kernel 2.6.12-10mdk
  • 2.6.12.5
  • WARNING: Security Hyper-Threading enabled by default (at boot time use ht=off to disable)
  • applied patch to cpufreq support centrino.
  • ACL support to NFS
  • XEN configs updated (enabled more options)
  • only build xen on x86, will enable on x86_64 later
  • Advertise the megaraid_mbox as megaraid_mbox (and not megaraid) in sysfs
  • Ndiswrapper 1.2
  • Updated ipw2100 to 1.1.2, ipw2200 to 1.0.6
  • e100 and e1000 drivers update (e100 to 3.4.8-k2 and e1000 to 6.0.60-k2)
  • Set the pwc driver to use non compressed mode by default.
  • added XEN support
  • resurrect legacy megaraid for { 0x9010, 0x9060, 0x1960 }
• GTK 2.8.0
• gaim 1.5.0
• sane 1.0.16
• epiphany 1.6.5
• kat 0.6.2
• amarok 1.3
• udev 068
• Now OpenOffice.org is included in the x86_64 ISO files
• DVD version have the Powerpack theme