Mandriva Desktop 2011

On August 29, 2011 the manufacturing company of the software Mandriva integrating offices of development in Russia, France and Brazil announces release of the new version of one of the free operating systems, most popular in the world, – Mandriva Desktop 2011.

The Mandriva brand is well-known in world IT market. The innovative product solutions based on the open source became a basis of cooperation of Mandriva with such giants of the IT industry as Intel and HP, and permanent care of users got the companies respect of millions of people.

During creation of this version of Mandriva Desktop 2011 the basic principles of interaction of people computer were rethought that was realized in development of absolutely new user applications and services. As a result users receive the modern operating system packed into easy, the intuitive interface.

According to the board member of Mandriva company Dmitry Komissarov, Mandriva-2011 will be highly appreciated by the users working with large volumes of diverse information for which synchronization of several devices is important. The technology of quick search based on visualization of documents, images and video fragments in a chronological order (TimeFrame tool) was developed for them. Users had an opportunity to group the files in different signs (StackFolder interface). The feature for synchronization of the user files between several computers (a cloud service of Sync) is added. The release of Mandriva Desktop 2011 also includes all applications for comfortable work (office, mail, the Internet), the modern center of entertainments and corporate utilities for work with the most popular social networks.

"The ideas of the Russian team made new release of our product actually the innovation, - Arnaud Laprevot, Mandriva France says. – At the same time, despite a set of basic innovations, we let out him just in time that testifies to high professionalism of our international command".

In final release of Mandriva Desktop 2011 developers paid much attention to preliminary system testing, having achieved its general stability: thanks to the built-in Improver tool from the moment of an exit "candidate Release #1" over 3800 users took part in testing of the operating system worldwide, more than 500 errors are corrected, about 2 thousand packets are updated.

Producers of a computer hardware and system integrators, having received for testing preliminary "candidate Release #2", highly appreciated the potential of new OS: "The open source - an important component of the modern hi-tech market as it considerably expands possibilities of suppliers and consumers of IT products and services. For this reason we welcome a release of the new version of Mandriva Desktop 2011 and we hope that the new functionality of the operating system will allow individuals and the organizations to solve wider and difficult problems where it is necessary, - the vice president of Aquarius company for a business activity Vladimir Piskunov said. The Mandriva operating system is already delivered together with the equipment of different producers to the different countries of the world, in particular, only in Brazil on computers about 1 million copies annually are preset. "Only in 2011 within the school project with Intel we deliver 600 thousand copies of our operating system", - Marcos Polidoro, the commercial director of Conectiva company, Brazilian team of Mandriva developers says.

A variety and potential of application in different areas and devices provided the leading positions of software products of Mandriva among Open Source in the countries where there are offices of development. In total in the world the products Mandriva Desktop use more than 3 million people. Dmitry Komissarov notes that with an exit of release of Mandriva Desktop 2011 the company expects to expand considerably the presence at corporate and public sector, in the field of education and also to increase the number of home users.

You can find detailed information on release of Mandriva Desktop 2011 on the website of Mandriva company: http://wiki.mandriva.com/ru/2011.0_Tour