PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 1

The PCLinuxOS development team has announced the availability of the first public beta release of PCLinuxOS 2009. This beta ISO features kernel 2.6.26.6, KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, Firefox 3.0.3, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, FrostWire, KTorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz Fusion 3D and much more.

It uses KDE 3.5.10 as default desktop as the developers could not achieve a similar functionality from KDE 4. They will however offer KDE 4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once they stabilize it.

Read the release announcement for more information and download links. Interested beta testers can get the CD image from here: PCLinuxOS-N1PTT-TR3.iso (651MB, MD5).