Mandriva

Mandriva (the company formerly known as Mandrakesoft) is a french software company which produces and supports the GNU/Linux Mandriva distribution, popular for its ease of use.

The company

Mandriva produces the Mandriva Linux operating system under the free software model (the code is free under the terms of the GPL Licence - General Public License). Hundreds of developpers around the globe contribute to the constant improvement of the system through internet collaboration.

The distribution

Mandriva Linux is the most localized Linux distribution: it supports from the installation around 50 languages. Mandriva Linux offers more than 2300 applications including 2 preconfigured desktop environments (Kde et Gnome), the famous Firefox browser, the Open Office suite and the Apache? web server.

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Mandriva Community Websites

Official Mandriva Sites

URL	Description
http://www.mandriva.com	Main company site
http://club.mandriva.com	Mandriva Club
http://store.mandriva.com	Mandriva Store
http://forum.club.mandriva.com	Official forums
http://qa.mandriva.com	Bugzilla
http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main	Development wiki
http://hcl.mandriva.com	Hardware compatibility list
http://www.mandrivaexpert.com	Mandriva Expert
https://www.mandrivaonline.com	Mandriva Online
http://kiosk.mandriva.com	Mandriva Kiosk
https://my.mandriva.com	Account management system
http://corpo.mandriva.com	Mandriva Corporate Club
http://partners.mandriva.com	Mandriva resellers' site
http://www.mandriva.com.br	Mandriva Conectiva Brasil

Community Portals

URL	Description
http://mandrakelinux.ru
http://www.mandriva.pl
http://www.mandrivabrasil.org/
http://mandriva.ie
http://www.mandrivalinux.cz	Czech Mandrake portal and distribution
http://www.mandrivaitalia.org
http://www.mandrivausers.org
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org
http://planetmandriva.zarb.org
http://www.funix.org/	Multimedia Linux pages. (french)
http://blogdrake.net	Spanish-speaking Mandriva Community
http://mdkfriends.ru/graf/index.shtml
http://www.linuxcenter.ru
http://www.mandrivauser.de	German Mandriva Community Site
http://www.mandrivaclub.nl
http://mdkfriends.ru
http://www.mandrivausers.ro	Romanian Mandriva community site
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr	Mandrake Tip 4 free by Rob Teng a.k.a. aRTee
http://pgshopping.com/mdkxp	The Mandrake Experience by D. Olson
http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca	A Mandriva Community Wiki
http://www.linuxo.com	Serbian Mandrake fan-site
http://mandrakeprinas.org	Slovenian Mandrakelinux Users site
http://mandrivausers.org	Mandriva Users Forum
http://lafox.net	Free Software Distribution Center (Kyiv, Ukraine), Russian Localization Team, Russian Documentation Team
http://mandrakeprinas.org/novice/
http://mandrake.en1heure.com/

Other relevant references

http://www.escritorioya.com.ar - Ayer los servidores, hoy el escritorio (Argentina)
http://distrowatch.com/mandriva
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux

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