Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2009 offers more than just the distribution: a selection of the best open source software with added exclusive software. With these exclusive applications, nothing is easier than playing your favorite Windows games, listening to your audio files and watching videos without worrying what format they're in. As well as this additional software, you get support which lets you get the best out of your distribution. Powerpack is the all-in-one edition for all Linux users, beginners as well as advanced users.

Mandriva's work to simplify your desktop
Mandriva Linux 2009 offers a redesign of its core utilities: the installer and the Control Center. A new design, improved ergonomics, and new features combine to make system administration even easier.

Mandriva includes the best of open source software
Discover the latest advances in the free software desktop with KDE 4: it will revolutionize your work and everyday desktop experience.

A complete desktop solution, support included
Powerpack lets you get the most from your distribution: extra commercial applications to make your experience even better, installation and configuration support

Mandriva is regarded as one of the best distributions (together with openSUSE and Ubuntu) for Linux newbies. It provides lots of useful graphical wizards for configuring most of the system settings. Lots of them are not found in any other Linux distribution.

Mandriva uses RPM as their package format, but is not compatible with Fedora's or Suse's RPM-s. The default package manager is urpmi, but the new powerful tool Smart is also supported. The default desktop is KDE. Gnome is also included and configured.The latest stable version, Mandriva Discovery 2006 includes a few novelties like an interactive firewall or a search tool KAT (like Beagle or Google Desktop Search).

Mandriva is very well localized — it can be installed in all the popular languages. It fits great for newbie users, but t's also used by lots of experienced ones, who don't like to fight with Debian, Slackware or Gentoo.

After the latest merges (with Connectiva and Lycoris) it changes its name from Mandrakelinux to Mandriva and this is how we call the system now.