Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 is now available on public mirrors. This first alpha is available only through Free version, 32 and 64 bits DVDs.This development release is the first one realized without mkcd, our historical build tool, but using bcd available also on Mandriva svn. This new tool should improve global quality of our release and make tests much easier and efficient.

You will find more information about Alpha 1 on Mandriva wiki. This first release comes also with specifications document available on wiki (pdf) . This document is composed by specifications that was not finalized in 2009 Spring, internal Mandriva proposals but also Community proposals through Mandriva Ideas web site. This web site is available now since beginning of 2010 development cycle in order to collect any kind of proposals to be included in coming releases.