Mandriva Linux 2008 now available

We’re proud to announce that Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download on the official site, and on the network of public mirror servers.

The result of six months of heavy development and testing, 2008 includes all the latest software and many enhancements over previous Mandriva Linux releases. You will find KDE 3.5.7 and the new GNOME 2.20 already integrated, a solid kernel 2.6.22.9 with fair scheduling support, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1, cutting-edge 3D-accelerated desktop courtesy of Compiz Fusion 0.5.2, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6, and everything else you’ve come to expect from the latest Mandriva Linux release. We have integrated a reworked hardware detection sub-system, with support for a lot of new devices (particularly graphics cards, sound cards and wireless chips). Also, the addition of new features and ongoing improvements to the renowned Mandriva tools continues, including a wizard to import Windows documents and settings, the new network configuration center, and improvements to the Mandriva software management tools.

You can read about the most exciting new features of Mandriva Linux 2008 in depth in the Release Tour. The Release Notes contain important information on changes from previous releases. The Errata will contain information on any future known issues and solutions for them.

Mandriva Linux 2008 was developed by the Mandriva development community, based around the Cooker development 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, for which we thank our contributors greatly. We’re proud of the standardization efforts included in Mandriva Linux 2008, including support for the Freedesktop.org XDG menu, user directories and icon theme specifications.

Mandriva Linux 2008 is available for download free of charge at the Mandriva website. The One installation CD is the recommended download with everything you need to start using Mandriva Linux 2008: it comes with a full KDE desktop and application suite, NVIDIA and ATI proprietary video card drivers, Intel wireless firmware, Adobe Flash and Sun Java browser plugins, all included.

Enjoy your brand new Mandriva Linux 2008 system!

78 Responses to “Mandriva Linux 2008 now available”

  1. taren Says:

    What about ONE Gnome Version?? Is there one comming (if yes, when)?? Not a big Fan of KDE but I don’t wanna download the Free edition (takes at least 10 hours to download the DVD Iso)

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  4. ra100 Says:

    is mandriva-linux-2007-spring-one-KDE-cdrom.i586.torrent install KDE system or live cd?
    thanks

  5. ra100 Says:

    sorry, my mistake.I mean mandriva-linux-2008-one-KDE-cdrom-i586.torrent :D

  6. AdamWill Says:

    taren: it will be coming, yep. exactly when depends on how long it takes us to get a working ISO :)

  7. anonymous Says:

    So is One available in x86-64?

  8. Troublicious Says:

    Thank you all for this perfect operating system ! ;)

  9. FreeSoftNews » Blog Archive » Mandriva Linux 2008 now available Says:

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  10. willou Says:

    Thanks to mandriva team.
    Have a nice day ! ;)

  11. CinePhil Says:

    When will the torrents of the Powerpack be available for the Club members ?

  12. Eskild hustvedt Says:

    Yeah, I must agree with taren. Don’t really care much for the KDE edition, where is One GNOME?

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  14. Sukla M C Says:

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  16. AdamWill Says:

    ra100: it is both. it’s a live CD that also acts as an installer.

    anonymous: not at the present time.

    cinephil: should be up already.

  17. ReviewLinux Says:

    Cant wait for the download to finish on i586 Free Mandriva 2008 to get a look at it. Super to have a Mandriva One KDE too plus the 3 2008.0 CD for those still without DVD-ROM’’s

    Thanks Mandriva!

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  19. Me! Says:

    Wow! Can’t wait for the d/l to complete and to see the beauty!
    Congratulations to the Mandriva team and all those who worked on it!
    Cheers,
    :)

  20. manmath sahu Says:

    I always loved Mandriva for its user-centric approach in computing. Though I am die-hard PCLinuxOS fan I am definitely going to try mandriva 2008 edition, this release note is too mouth-watering.

  21. Ramazan Says:

    I have a Canon IP Pixma 1000 printer. That’s printer not support any Linux, Install my printer driver very hard. Questions: Mandriva 2008 is support my printer?
    I loved Mandriva. But I’m downloading and using Mandriva 2008?
    Knowed is help my questions. Thanks….

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  28. fred Says:

    Use Ubuntu.

  29. Arun Says:

    Great……..I am an ardent fan of Mandriva and was eagerly waiting for the latest version. Will download it today itself.

  30. cepik Says:

    Thanks to team.

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  32. Usser Says:

    Here es an update mirror( 10-Oct-2007):

    http://proyectos.pixelamigo.com/software/Mandriva/2008/

  33. François Says:

    @ra100: Mandriva One is a Live-Cd, with an installer program. You can test Mandriva with your hardware, and if you like, install Linux.

  34. Thai Dang Vu Says:

    The result of six months of heavy development and testing is Xorg 7.2 :p (Xorg 7.3 was released on Sep 6 07)

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  37. Mandriva 2008 Says:

    finally, I will definitely try it, hope it looks and works much better than previous version

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  41. gnome Says:

    Don’t care much for KDE too.

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  44. TwinPrimes Says:

    What are the differences between RC2 and the released version ?

  45. S.Lentz Says:

    I’m glad 2008.0 is out .. but what about the One version with Gnome ? I’m expecting like a lot of people. I’m using Linux mint so far & now really depend on Gnome (fast, reliable). I want to test & compare .. Please people from Mandriva clarify this ! One with Gnome is EXPECTED.

  46. themacmeister Says:

    You could have squeezed Gnome in there somewhere, surely…

    I do not like KDE at all.

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  48. LeisureMan Says:

    Took 17 hours to download; decided not to install because somehow my country setting
    for Malaysia is not shown. However time zone for Asia - Kuala Lumpur is available.

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  50. Dan Says:

    Does anyone know how to change the max resolution cause mine is stuck on 800×600 and with a 32″ display this just does work for me, it would if i was trying to use it from 30 feet away but i cant take this. In Ubuntu you can change some XF86Config file to change the max res. Any ideas??????

  51. Xav Says:

    Where is the GNOME version ?

    Thanks,
    Xav

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  54. Ashwin Says:

    Is it possible to install a Gnome system from the KDE live cd? If not when is the Gnome cd coming out?? Can’t bear the ugly Windows look-alike DE one bit.. yeah KDE that is.

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  57. Adam Says:

    For those looking for GNOME, it is available in the Free and Powerpack editions. You can also add it to the KDE One edition - just install, set up the official repositories, and install the ‘task-gnome’ package. Expect news on a possible GNOME One edition sometime soon.

  58. Adam Says:

    Dan, you can use the Mandriva graphics card configuration tool to set up your resolution. It’s in the Mandriva Control Center, or you can run it as ‘drakx11′.

  59. Adam Says:

    Twinprimes, lots of bug fixes. If you have a working 2008 RC2 install you can update it to 2008 final simply by setting up 2008 repositories using Easy URPMI - http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ - and running ‘urpmi –auto-update’. No need to reinstall.

  60. soren121 Says:

    Ramazan: Your printer has a driver available from Canon. Download the .tar.gz here: http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0022414.asp

    All you need to do is extract it and there will be 4 RPMs inside. Install all of them and you should be able to configure your printer in the Mandriva Control Center. :)

    And yeah, where is the One GNOME CD?

  61. Lobotomia Says:

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  63. Vishwas Says:

    Hi,
    I just downloaded Mandriva 2008 - 64 bit free dvd, but when I try to install it. It says “loopback error :-(” and install proces aborted :-”. I downloaded it from Taiwan mirror. I own a Compaq Presario V6000 series laptop - V6211AU to be specific. It has a AMD Turion 64 bit dual core processor. Please let me know from where to download a working copy of Mandriva 2008. Can’t wait to install it!

    Also one of my friends reported that it crashed his laptop, by overheating it.

    Regards,
    Vishwas.

  64. Richard Says:

    That’s all nice, but on Monday I tried to download the DVD version, I ran out of space, but now I want to download it again and I cannot find that version. Why is it gone?
    Only CD’s are available.

    Richard.

  65. Sundar Mani Says:

    someone, please help me on this. I wanna go through the source code of entire Mandriva Linux 2008 distribution. If i download from mandriva.com, will i be able to?

    I wanna learn everything about making all latest hardware work using OS (including latest MuP, motherboards, graphics cards, sound cards, HDD, monitors, USB, SCSI, RAID, SAN).

    In short, i want complete access to mandriva 2008 source code. all files including kernel. please point me to the right clink. if i download the iso image, will it have source code after i extract the files.

    regards, Sundar

  66. Vishwas Says:

    #

    Usser said,

    October 10, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Here es an update mirror( 10-Oct-2007):

    http://proyectos.pixelamigo.com/software/Mandriva/2008/

    Hi Usser,
    Please let me know how to combine the 3 parts of the x86_64 version of the file that you have uploaded.

    Regards,
    Vishwas.

  67. ramu Says:

    I want MANDRIVA 2008 media

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  70. Corran Says:

    Just noticed that the installer in One-KDE doesn’t know what Sweden is. Funny, especially since Linus is a Finnish-Swede, i e talks and writes Swedish.

    Nevertheless, x86-64? 64-bit is just hype anyway, right? ;)

  71. ahmadinejad Says:

    Great, i just installed One in virtual. Everything works fine.

  72. Prashant S Bari Says:

    Can I get Drivers of SUSE10.0

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  74. Bernard de Asis Says:

    currently I have running windows Xp onm my computer, but i want to install linux (mandriva 2008 and i also have installation CD for that? woud that be possible, having dual boot? a linux and a windows Xp pro, how can i install mandriva, i ned detailed informations for that, i have tried installing, but i cannot do that.
    Thanks, gracias

  75. sokol Says:

    ok. I am new here and I may be asking a dum question. I downloaded mandriva. How many and which files should there be on the root directory of the cd so I can installit.

  76. misa Says:

    ok everybody here is talking in a weird language for me!! im gonna be simple!!
    Im tired of windows and i just download the mandriva-linux-2008-one-KDE-cdrom-i586

    how do i install this? on my old IBM Thinkpad R31?

    any links that can guide me to do this?

    Regards,
    Just Tired of windows!!!

  77. Shaun Says:

    I am running mandriva 2008 as guest operatin system withing a windows xp environment. Could you please provide a step by step instruction set how to install vmware tools for this quest operating system. Please note i am new to linux as well so it needs a fair amount of explanation. It would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.

  78. Awneet Says:

    I am running mandriva 2008 as guest operatin system withing a windows xp environment. Could you please provide a step by step instruction set how to acess
    internet….through broadband……..Please note i am new to linux as well so it needs a fair amount of explanation. It would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.i am waitin for your reply…….