Mandriva Linux 2008 released

Hi, guys! We've officially released Mandriva Linux 2008. If you'd like
to post the news on your sites, here's the official announcement.
Thanks!

Mandriva Linux 2008 now available

We're proud to announce that Mandriva Linux 2008 is now <a
href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/download.html">available for
download</a> 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 <a
href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Tour">Release
Tour</a>. The <a
href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes">Release Notes</a> contain
important information on changes from previous releases. The <a
href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Errata">Errata</a> 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 <a
href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/download.html">available for download
free of charge</a> 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!
-- 
adamw