Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux is the operating system, (in the recent past known under the name Mandrake) developed by the French company Mandriva. By right it is considered one of the most friendly versions of the Linux operating system to the user. Among positive aspects of Mandriva Linux there is a good support of Russian, the ability is full to work with sections of Windows, to connect modern external devices (including USB cameras, printers, a MP3 players, a flash charms, etc.), simplicity of installation, setup and use.

Renaming

Basic reason of renaming of the operating system, as well as the company - a prolonged lawsuit with the Hearst Corporation which is the owner of the rights to the character of comics Mandrake the Magician. As a result in 2005 the producer of progammny providing concedes and renames products and the organization into Mandriva.

Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack

Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack — the GNU/Linux distribution kit intended for installation at the workstation or the small server. Being one of the most convenient and popular GNU/Linux distribution kits in the world, Mandriva Linux is ideal option for use in the commercial and state organizations at office workstations and servers. Ease of use and settings and friendliness to the user of Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack do a distribution kit by ideal option for transition to Linux of new users at office and at home. At the same time, Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack completely satisfies requests of experienced users and administrators.

The business card of Mandriva — a number of the utilities increasing convenience of setup and work with a system, security: the command center of Mandriva Linux giving the chance of the centralized setup of the equipment, services and services, the interactive firewall, the utility for simplification of migration with Windows, software for control of hard drives, etc.

Main advantages of Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack:

Start of 1C and other Windows applications:

• the distribution kit includes the wine@etersoft local software product for work with applications 1C, the Guarantor, the Consultant and other business applications, popular in Russia,
• compatibility with 1C: thanks to the special version of PostgreSQL with support of 1C, when installing Powerpack on the server and client computers, it is possible to start 1C 8.1.12 and is newer and to work with the database on the server. This solution allows to pass completely to Mandriva Linux at workstations and on server 1C,
• Mandriva 2010 include the solution for start of Windows applications of wine 1.2 rc4 including a set of improvements: support of DirectX 10, performance improvement of DIB, OpenAL support, numerous improvements in supports of HTML and JavaScript, the improved Gecko integration, management of desktop labels is improved, operation of applications of Microsoft Office 2007, Autocad 2008, CDBurnerXP and many others is improved.

Office applications:

• the OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite entering a distribution kit includes the text editor, spreadsheets, the editor of the presentations, databases, the vector graphics editor. In OpenOffice.org 3.2 support of Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft of Excel 2007, Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 is improved, also older Microsoft Office formats are supported.
• are included in a distribution kit: the free system of recognition of texts Cuneiform, Acrobat Reader, the Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, Opera browsers, the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, software for communication of Kopete, Skype, multimedia applications,
• except the listed software, you will find the mass of the utilities facilitating daily work of the user, for example in a distribution kit - software for automatic change of language of the printed text (xneur, gxneur) and some other convenient programs.

Server applications:

• directory service: Mandriva Powerpack includes the product Mandriva Directory Server (an analog of the domain controller Windows NT4) there is a simple tool in use for maintaining the directory of users and access rights to shares of a local network of the enterprise and management of network services (the servers DNS, DHCP, SAMBA, Proxy, Mail, etc.),
• virtualization: Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack includes the latests version of the free software for virtualization - software of virtualization of x86 VirtualBox 3.1.8, Xen and also the version of VMware (VMWare player) limited by opportunities,
• Apache Web server,
• solution for group work of Zafara,
• control system and accounting of traffic of Traffro (free version),

Software for developers:

• Qt 4.6.2, Glibc 2.11.1, GCC 4.4.3, debugger of GDB 7.1
• Bluefish 2.0.0
• Apache Web server
• PHP 5.3, Perl, Python 2.6.5, Ruby 1.9.1
• DBMS MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.

Security:

• As well as security of your data will allow you to raise all options of GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2010 Spring Powerpack significantly, to be protected from viruses and malware.
• In the packet of security of MSEC intended for setup of users of different parameters of security from access rights, before restriction of network activity and limitation of separate applications the report with summary information is added, ACL setup support is implemented, the feature for a call and assessment of results of accomplishment of the tests which are periodically executed in a system is added;
• In Mandriva 2010 Spring the organization of work of the guest accounts allowing to organize one-time access to the machine of casual people whose work will be performed in the isolated temporary house directory cleaned at an exit of the guest from a system is considerably improved. For example, for guest accounts it is used special limited to Shell now, access to files of other users is closed, start of administrative system applications is blocked.

Convenience of using:

• the distribution kit includes versions of popular and convenient working environments most relevant at the moment for GNU/Linux there are KDE 4.4.3 and GNOME 2.30.1 and also the graphical environment LXDE, undemanding to resources.

Home computer:

• Moovida - your new multimedia center will allow you to create the full-fledged multimedia computer,
• commercial codecs for playing of files in the commercial MP3, wma, wmv formats from Fluendo and also the commercial DVD player - Fluendo DVD Reader
• you can easily configure settings of use of the Internet by your child using the utility of parent control, having prohibited or having permitted visit of certain websites

Additional free applications which you can set from an additional disk:

• For medical institutions: "The medical information system "Vista-Med" is a single medical information system for management of activity of all health facilities,
• server software: the free version of the Traffpro system for calculation of Internet traffic and installation of access control in network,
• Red Data Base 2.1 DBMS is the first industrial Russian database management system on the basis of the open code Firebird. The core Red of the Data Base is used in solutions of different scale: from the built-in hardware systems and solutions for the small companies to IT-systems of the largest multinational corporations,
• for individual entrepreneurs: - the "individual entrepreneur" program for the accounting of economic transactions of the individual entrepreneur who is applying a simplified tax system, not using cash registers, which does not have workers and selected "income" from quality of the taxation object
• for start of Windows applications: wine@etersot local.

Principal components of a distribution kit:

• core 2.6.33.5
• X.Org 7.5 with server X 1.7.7,
• KDE 4.4.3
• GNOME 2.30.1
• VirtualBox 3.0.8
• OpenOffice.org 3.2,
• Firefox 3.6.3

Support of the equipment:

• Mandriva developers work directly with the leading international and Russian equipment manufacturers: Intel, Lenovo, HP, DELL, Aquarius, etc. therefore Mandriva supports the broadest spectrum of a computer hardware. You can find the list of the tested equipment here: http://hcl.mandriva.com/
• edition Mandriva Powerpack includes the closed drivers for a number of Wi-fi of modems and video cards (ATI, Intel, nVidia, Poulsbo) improving support of the equipment and simplifying work with the equipment for home and corporate users
• Mandriva Linux supports a big set of models of netbooks, including all models of Asus Eee PC, Acer Aspire One, MSI Wind, Aquarius available at the moment and others.

Complete set:

• installation DVD for i586 platform
• installation DVD for x86_64 platform
• disk with additional applications
• license for 1 computer
• the coupon on technical support for 6 months

Mandriva Linux 2009.1 Spring

Desktop of the Mandriva Linux 2009 Power Pack operating system

The system distribution kit relevant for spring of 2009.

From properties of a distribution kit it should be noted the simple system of installation of programs and management of the set packets, the unified desktop (designed taking into account the last free Freedesktop.org standards constructed on the basis of graphical KDE GNOME environments 4.2.2 and 2.26.1 with 3D - functionality Compiz Fusion), the modern core optimized for the fastest reaction to actions of the user, plus fresh versions of the application software (OpenOffice.org 3.0, the Mozilla Firefox 3 web tools, an interactive firewall, Internet phones, built-in local "search engine" and many other freely distributed software products, useful houses and at office). There is a built-in support of mobile devices (including under management Windows Mobile), various means for expansion of functionality of a desktop Google Gadgets (in particular).

2013: Mandriva Linux 2010.2 PowerPack

On December 25, 2013 the Gnu/Linuxcenter company (Мезон.ру Ltd) announced the beginning of sales of the new Mandriva Linux 2010.2 PowerPack distribution kit conforming to requirements of FSTEC to class K2 inclusive.

Description

The software allows to reduce cardinally costs for providing information system protection, according to requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation, to use all range of popular business applications as developed for Linux OS, and for Windows.

Innovations

Specialists of Mandriva.Py company made necessary completions of the version of GNU/Linux, most popular in the world, which allowed a system to undergo certification of FSTEC. According to certificate No. 2984 of October 10, 2013, the operating system corresponds to the 5th class of security for the computer aids (CA) and to the 4th class by parameters of lack of not declared opportunities (NDO). Existence of the certificate allows to use Mandriva Linux 2010.2 Powerpack for processing of confidential information in automated systems of a class up to 1G and personal data processings in information systems of a class to K1 inclusive.

The Mandriva Linux 2010.2 Powerpack distribution kit recommended by experts for use in the state organizations and the companies initially contains a large number of the built-in applications and has the user-friendly interface optimized especially for people without IT preparation including graphic covers of KDE 4.4.3 and GNOME 2.30.

The compatibility with the main business applications provides the software product wine@etersoft 2.0.0. It proved the performance at start of solutions 1C, the Guarantor, the Consultant and other programs for conducting activity, popular in Russia. Special DBMS PostgreSQL version 8.4.5 with support 1C allows to pass completely to open operating systems into the companies, starting both server, and client versions of a product in an environment Linux.

Advantage of Mandriva Linux 2010.2 Powerpack - ready office environment with a packet of OpenOffice.org which can work with the popular document formats of Microsoft Office and also graphics editors, applications for imposition and sound processing. The server version of the operating system is established with a directory service, a terminal server, the free software for creation of virtual computing environments. For increase in efficiency of group actions on the server there is already a system of joint work of Zafara 7.0.8 and also the Postfix 2.7.0 mail server and the IP telephony server of Asterisk 1.8.5.

"Mandriva Linux 2010.2 Powerpack allows to raise qualitatively the security level and data protection in the departmental and commercial organizations, using the most modern security aids which are already built in a system core, - Sergey Logutov, the commercial director of Мезон.ру Ltd noted. – The low price of a set of software, convenience of work and existence of FSTEC certificates, do the new version of Mandriva Linux by the most balanced solution for equipment of workstations and servers in the companies of any size".

According to requirements of regulatory authorities the GNU/Linuxcenter makes obligatory registration of all owners of secure system and also provides annual user support by phone.

The product price in retail of 4990 rubles. In the delivery 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a distribution kit.