Mandriva, S.A. is the developer and maintainer of a Linux distribution called Mandriva Linux, as well as various enterprise software products.
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On 2008-01-16, Mandriva and Turbolinux announced a partnership to create a lab named Manbo-Labs, to share resources and technology to release a common base system for both companies' Linux distributions.
Mandriva Linux is the brainchild of Gaël Duval, who wanted to focus on ease of use for new users.
The computer system, especially present in the Secondary Section, is Open Source based - highlighting Mandriva 2007 and Fedora Core 7, OpenOffice.org, and GIMP.
Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.