Mandriva’s team has gone to great lengths to integrate this new environment in a way that ensures everyone - from the beginner to the hardcore can start using it immediately, with a customized graphical theme, careful choice of the most powerful applications, and a default configuration tuned to your system's particular hardware.
The latest release ensures that there is 100% graphical synchronization with mobile devices: Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 as well as Windows Mobile 5 and 6, all Blackberry devices, and many Nokia devices.
The major changes in this release are:
# An updated set of commercial applications in the Powerpack edition: Fluendo audio and video codecs, advanced touching-up of digital images with LightZone, virtualisation with VmWare, and Google applications
# Complete overhaul of the graphic installer
# Simplification and improved reliability of application installations and updates: notification of new distribution versions via Mandriva Online, and automatic configuration of official repositories
# Latest versions of leading open source applications: integration of KDE 4.1, GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Firefox 3
# Faster boot time
# Improved parental control utility, now with time-based restrictions
# Installer now capable of detecting low-resource systems or netbooks, and installing an appropriate environment (GNOME is default for netbooks)
# Detection and optional automatic removal of packages known as orphans (packages previously installed which are no longer required) to optimize free space and future updates
# Constantly improving hardware support (kernel 2.6.27) with particular attention paid to netbooks
Mandriva Linux 2009 is available in three configurations:
a) Powerpack - the commercial edition, including exclusive commercial software, support, and services
b) One - a live CD which can also be installed to the system permanently (Download)
c) Free - an edition which contains only free / open source software (Download)
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