Mandriva Linux uses the Mandriva Control Center for administration of Linux rather than using a text editor to change settings.
It has many programs known as Drakes or Draks, collectively named drakxtools, to configure many different settings.
Examples include MouseDrake to set up a mouse, DiskDrake to set up disk partitions and drakconnect to set up a network connection.
They are written using GTK+ and Perl, and most of them can run in both graphical and text mode using the ncurses interface.

Mandriva Linux uses a package manager called urpmi, which functions as a wrapper to the RPM package management system.
It is similar to apt-get in that it allows seamless installation of a given software package by automatically installing the other packages needed.
It is also media-transparent due to its ability to retrieve packages from various media, including network/Internet, CD/DVD and local disk.
Urpmi also has an easy-to-use graphical front-end called rpmdrake, which is integrated into the Mandriva Control Center.

Remote sources for urpmi / rpmdrake can be added during the installation of recent Mandriva Linux versions.
After installation, they can be added through an option in the Software Sources Manager, or by using console commands generated either manually or by one of several helper sites such as Easy URPMI.
This functionality allows the user to choose some or all of the various software repositories available for their version of Mandriva Linux and can greatly expand the amount of software that the user can install through the urpmi system.
Instructions on adding repositories and installing software can be found on the Mandriva Wiki.

From its inception to version 8.0, Mandrake named its flagship distribution Linux-Mandrake. From version 8.1 to 9.2 it was called Mandrake Linux.

In February 2004 MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician.
As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as Mandrakelinux, and its logo changed accordingly.
Similarly, MandrakeMove became Mandrakemove.

In April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced that after the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, the new company name would be Mandriva, and that Mandriva Linux would be the new name covering products.

Mandriva provides multiple editions of Linux. Some are freely-distributable, while others are sold online and via a network of authorized resellers. Mandriva also provides the Mandriva Club, which allows paying members to download commercial editions at no additional cost (depending on membership level).

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Brief History

Mandriva Linux is based on the Cooker development project sponsored by Mandriva. Hundreds of passionate free software developers work openly on the core of the distribution. This open, community-driven development system has been in place since 1998, making it one of the longest-standing open source development communities around. The involvement of the Mandriva development community helps us to make Mandriva Linux one of the largest, most up-to-date, integrated, internationalized and standardized distributions available.

The first release was based on Red Hat Linux (version 5.1) and KDE (version 1.0) in July 1998. It has since diverged greatly from Red Hat and has included a number of original tools mostly to ease system configuration. Mandriva Linux was originated by Gaël Duval, and intended to focus on ease of use for new users. Duval was also a co-founder of Mandrakesoft, but was laid off from the company in 2006.

Mandriva Linux was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was already well-known as a powerful and stable operating system that demanded strong technical knowledge and extensive use of the “command line”; Mandriva saw this as an opportunity to integrate the best graphical desktop environments and contribute its own graphical configuration utilities and quickly became famous for setting the standard in ease-of-use and functionality.

Name changes

From its inception to version 8.0, Mandrake named its flagship distribution Linux-Mandrake. From version 8.1 to 9.2 it was called Mandrake Linux.

In February 2004 MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as Mandrakelinux, and its logo changed accordingly. Similarly, MandrakeMove became Mandrakemove.

In April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking (Brazil) and Spanish-speaking Latin America. As a result of this acquisition and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, Mandrakesoft announced that the new company name would be Mandriva, and that Mandriva Linux would be the new name covering products.

A complete list of supported hardware is available at www.mandriva.com/hardware

Processor: an x586-class or above processor is required. This includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV/Celeron, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP. Hyper-Threading is supported. SMP multi-processor machines are supported. (*)

• Memory: at least 64 MB is required (32 MB for text-install); 128 MB or more is recommended.
• Hard disks: IDE, SCSI and S-ATA hard disks are supported.
• Hard disk size: At least 500MB is required, 1GB is recommended. Large capacity drives are supported (up to 250GB).
• SCSI controllers: most SCSI controllers are supported (Adaptec, Tekram, LSI Logic, Advansys…).
• RAID controllers: most RAID controllers are supported, excepted for IDE and Serial-ATA. 3Ware IDE and Serial-ATA RAID controllers are supported though.
• USB and USB 2.0: most USB devices are supported.
• CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives and burners: Most IDE, SCSI, PCMCIA, IEEE 1394/FireWire models are supported (this includes DVD+RW and DVD-RW).
• Graphic cards: Most ISA, PCI and AGP cards are supported, including VESA, NVidia®, ATI(TM), 3DFX, SIS, S3, Matrox, Intel i865G, i85x, i81x i845G, Trident. 3D acceleration is available for Matrox G200/G400/G500, Voodoo III/V/Banshee, Intel i8XX, ATI Rage 128/Pro & Radeon, Nvidia (GeForce and Nforce). i9xx chipset are supported in VESA mode.
• Network adapters: All cards based on Intel, Realtek, 3COM, NVIDIA®, Broadcom and Marvell chipsets. USB adapters are supported. Most PCMCIA, PCI and USB wireless network cards are supported. Most modems, RNIS, DSL and wireless devices are supported. Most “WinModems” are not supported.
• Printers: Most printers are supported. Most “WinPrinters” are not supported.
• Sound Cards: All Sound Blaster-compatible soundcards, Sound Blaster/Ensoniq (Audigy, Live), X Wave, Crystal, Intel®, AMD, NVIDIA® force, VIA, CMI C-Media, ESS Maestro, Yamaha YMF744, Terratec, AC’97.
• Laptops: Most laptops are supported. Centrino drivers are provided in commercial products.
• Misc.: Numerous TV cards, all Wacom graphics tablets, many scanners, most web cams, digital cameras and FireWire devices are supported.

(*)A version of Mandriva Linux for x86-64 (Athlon64, Opteron and EM64T) is released separately.

• GCC features C, C++, Fortran 77, Objective C, Java and Ada 95 compilers.
• PHP, Perl and Python scripting languages are also available.
• GTK+ and Qt libraries – along with KDE and GNOME libraries – are available for developing graphical applications.
• Java bytecode can be run with Kaffe.
• J2SDK(TM), J2RE(TM) and Intel® compilers are also available in Mandriva Linux Official packs.
• Kdevelop is an Integrated Development Environment.
• Quanta Plus is an HTML Integrated Development Environment.
• Choose from a large selection of editors such as the popular Vim, Emacs and XEmacs.

The development tree of Mandriva Linux has always been known as Cooker. This tree is directly released as a new stable version.

The current release is named 2009.1 Spring and was released in April 2009.

Table of versions

2. On the desktop: Mandrivagalaxy II, and MagicDev

3. Improved configuration, extended hardware support

4. Simplified system maintenance

5. All the best Office & Internet applications

6. Multimedia and games

7. Servers, Internet and Intranet services

8. Easy Printing with CUPS

9. Top-level Security

10. Everything for Development

11. Available in more than 60 languages

12. Supported hardware

13. All available packages

14. Prices and ordering

Linux Environment

Mandriva Linux is an easy to use operating system which provides unparalleled hardware support together with extended integration of latest technologies such as Bluetooth and WIFI. Other key features include KDE and GNOME graphical desktops, enhanced laptop support. Users keen on all things “Advanced” need not look any further.

The ideal complement to any Mandriva Linux product is a membership to Mandriva Club which offers a wide range of benefits including access to more than 60,000 applications that run on Mandriva Linux, plus a wide assortment of privileges, including the download of commercial Mandriva Linux ISO images for Silver members and above. Subscribing to the Mandriva Club is also the best way to support Mandrivalinux development.

Mandriva Linux: System Overview

Mandriva Linux 10.1 features the following major softwares:

* Linux Kernel 2.6.8 (and various fixes from 2.6.9rc)
* Xorg 6.7.0
* KDE 3.2.3
* GNOME 2.6
* Glibc 2.3.3, GCC 3.4.1
* Apache 2.0.50, PHP 4.3.8
* MySQL 4.0.18, Samba 3.0.6
* Mozilla 1.7.2, GIMP 2.0.4
* OpenOffice.org 1.1.3

Mandriva Linux features are also detailed on these pages. Order now!

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