From Linux Journal:

In mid-January of 2008, the French Linux distribution maker Mandriva and its Japanese counterpart, Turbolinux, announced a partnership to create a common base Linux system, as well as a joint development lab, logically dubbed "Manbo-Labs".

As each each player in the distribution game seeks to offer a compelling product that sets itself apart in a competitive, innovation-packed marketplace, we are curious to know how the players themselves view their strategies. Linux Journal Products Editor, James Gray, recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out his take on the new partnership.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/interview-mandriva-ceo-françois-bancilhon

PARIS & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mandriva and Turbolinux announce a partnership by creating a lab named: Manbo-Labs. This Lab is the result of an agreement between Mandriva and Turbolinux to share resources and technology to release a common base system on each of the Linux distributions.

Mandriva, the leading European editor of Linux distributions, and Turbolinux, a leading Linux client and server distributor in Japan and China, signed the agreement about Manbo-Labs last October and have been working together since then. Both companies decided to wait until first internal delivery to issue this announcement.

Read the full thing at http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080116005050&newsLang=en

The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release brings a near-final snapshot of KDE 4.0 (final 4.0 packages are currently being uploaded to the Cooker repositories), new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, the chance to test the experimental nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards, kernel 2.6.24rc7, and more.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/11/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-alpha-2-neottia-released/

From Mandriva Blogs:

The CEO of Mandriva, François Bancilhon, reviews the highlights for Mandriva in 2007 and discusses the direction for Mandriva in 2008.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/02/2008/

From Checkerap:

It’s been three months now, since I started using Mandriva 2008 at work. I work at a web dev company where we do PHP/AJAX/XHTML/CSS stuff. Three months ago, by the time I came into the company, we received laptops and some of us decided to use Linux. I used Linux at home so this was nice. Everyone chosed a distro he was used to. I chosed Mandriva 2008.

Read the full thing at http://checkerap.com/2007/12/22/3-months-with-mandriva-2008-production-use/

From adamw’s very own blog:

Well, Anssi and I might not quite look like elves, but we act like them sometimes! Indeed, your Christmas present from Mandriva is the latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers packaged for all supported Mandriva distributions.

Read the full thing at NVIDIA and ATI Drivers for Mandriva

From Linux.com:

Mandriva is the only Linux maker that offers a version of its distribution packaged with and designed to run off a USB stick. True, you can install virtually any Linux distro onto an external USB device, but Mandriva Flash 2008 offers you a complete solution, including a USB stick with pre-installed version of Mandriva Linux and a CD containing a few useful tools. It's a worthwhile package, though not without room for improvement.

Read the full thing at http://www.linux.com/feature/122980

From IT News & Technology update:

Mandriva Flash is a pre-installed Mandriva Linux distribution on a simple 4GB USB 2.0 Key, it claimed as the #1 linux key

Plug the key, start your Linux system everywhere, save and exchange your datas on the free space, up to 3GB! Impress your friends with your mobile 3D desktop!

Read the full thing at http://newsonit.blogspot.com/2007/11/mandriva-flash-4gb-3d-desktop-in-your.html

Mandriva rallies the community of Linux users in many cities across the globe on November 17th 2007.

In order to bring Linux to new users and present the new features and technologies available in Mandriva Linux 2008, Mandriva is mobilizing its network of Linux User Groups (LUGs) to coordinate a worldwide Installfest on November 17th 2007.

From Free Software Magazine:

For those of you that follow my blog, you must have noticed that I’m a Mandriva user. Recently though, I took an interest in Ubuntu: I installed version 7.04 on a laptop, and it did look interesting, enough to make me doubt my commitment to Mandriva’s products.

Thus, when 7.10 came out with a bang in the media, and I got another laptop to de-borgify, I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO along with the install CD for Mandriva 2008.0 Free.

So, I did a test drive, trying to level the field as much as possible. Here are the results.

Read the full thing at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/mandriva_2008_vs_ubuntu_7_10_gutsy_gibbon