Mandriva Linux 2008 released
The latest, with more polish
MANDRIVA LINUX 2008.0 has been released and installation files are available for download at mirror sites in Europe and North America.
It's an all new base system built on the recent Linux kernel version 2.6.22-9 with the latest Gnome 2.20, KDE 3.5.7 and XFCE 4.4.1 desktops, the Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 3D accelerated desktop, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1, and Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
The release includes better hardware detection and hardware drivers for new devices like graphics and sound cards, improved desktop menu and user directory management, and the Liberation font set that provides transparent replacements for Microsoft's proprietary fonts.
You can download the Mandriva One live CD version with binary proprietary components like Flash integrated for convenience, or download the Mandriva Free ISO images without those non-free components.
The Mandriva Linux 2008.0 distribution mirrors are still being propagated, so it will be a day or so until you see the full distribution trees available. µ
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Mandriva?
A few years ago Mandriva begat PCLinusOS which was better in almost every respect. And then PCLinuxOS begat Granular Linux which outshines its parent and certainly Mandriva by an order or two of magnitude. Everything in Granular works without fiddling with terminal or editor input(except Nvidia or ATI drivers which you have to download).