(Expect changes to continue for a while as the dust settles.) Actual Mandriva products
are divided into Enterprise and Individual offerings. Mandriva gears the support and services
it offers to those two categories.
On the Enterprise side, products focus on corporate desktops and servers, as well as some specialty
firewall and clustering products. To support those products, Mandriva offers a variety of consulting,
support, and training options. For the Individual line, Linux products range from beginner
desktop products to products aimed at home and small office servers. For a short period of time
after the acquisition, Mandriva offered a Lycoris desktop product. However, that offering has since
been dropped and Lycoris technology has been integrated into other Mandriva products.
At the time of this writing, the most current version of Mandriva Linux is Mandriva 2008. Version
numbers for business-oriented products follow a different scheme, with the latest business server
product called Mandriva Linux Corporate Server 4.0.
Here is a brief overview of the versions of Mandriva that you can download for free:
Mandriva One??”A live CD version of Mandriva Linux that contains a well-stocked
set of desktop applications. In addition to offering the full OpenOffice productivity suite,
Mandriva One includes tools for graphics (GIMP and F-Spot), Internet (Firefox, Evolution,
and GAIM), and multimedia (Totem movie player, Sound Juicer, and TVtime television
viewer).
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