Mandriva Linux - distribution operating system Linux, developed by French company Mandriva. Initially based on distributions Red Hat Linux. Distribution is deservedly considered to be very friendly to the user. In particular, it includes a unique tool - drakxtools, which allows to fully customize the system, as well as its own package manager, which was to create a desire to add the rpm records dependencies.
As used desktop environments KDE and GNOME. There is a version of the distribution that is spread on LiveUSB.