The latest issue of MagDriva, the German community magazine from MandrivaUser.de, was published today, ready for the holiday season.

Mandriva today is proud to release its brand new distribution: Mandriva Linux 2007.

The key innovation of Mandriva Linux 2007 is the spectacular AIGLX and Xgl 3D-accelerated desktop. Mandriva is the only distribution to provide both technologies and is particularly happy to have achieved this major breakthrough in desktop appearance. In addition, a new theme named Ia Ora ("hello" in French Polynesian) has been introduced.

Mandriva developed Invictus Firewall - this feature is available in Powerpack+ 2007 - a high-availability redundant firewall cluster system. To match everyone's needs, Mandriva Linux 2007 includes the latest innovations in the fields of office suite applications, Internet, multimedia and the new virtualization and 3D-accelerated desktop technologies. You can:

• Watch all your favorite movies legally on LinDVD;

• Play video games with TransGaming's Cedega;

• Discover FlatOut, the famous car racing game;

• Enjoy 6 months of anti-virus protection with Kaspersky;

• Benefit from the powerful BitDefender;

• Run and manage any virtual machine with VMware Player, an integrated system virtualization solution.

Still available in four different versions of live/install CDs (KDE or GNOME, i586 or x86_64) and Dual Architecture Installation DVD and Cds, get a better glimpse at the next Mandriva Linux 2007 edition!

Note that not all of the new features have been implemented yet and that a beta version is not bug-proof.This is why we strongly encourage everyone to test and report any bugs or surprises they may encounter.

Available in four differents flavours live/install CDs (KDE or GNOME, i586 or x86_64) and Dual Architecture Installation DVD and Cds, get a glimpse of the next Mandriva Linux 2007 edition!

Note that not all of the new features have been implemented yet and that a beta version is not bug-proof.
This is why we strongly encourage everyone to test and report any bugs or surprises they may encounter.

This year's Linuxtag will open its doors on May 3rd, 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany (near Frankfurt). Again Germany's largest international Linux event will attract thousands of users, developers and nearly all the large and small companies of the Open Source world. Except Microsoft who refrained from participating...

Some of you may have heard or read about a new 'secret project' under development. Well, it's time to take off the wraps: the secret project is Mandriva Linux One 2006, an installable live CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006.

Thanks to a few fellows, an e-magazine "Mandriva Linux Inside" was born today with a lot of information, interviews and news about Mandriva Linux...

The German Mandriva user community has something new for you! MandrivaUser.de proudly presents smart-urpmi !

Following user's requests for a more comprehensive Mandriva Linux hardware database, a new web-system is now available to manage your system/component information, and share your comments. Is your Firewire device working out of the box? Are you looking for support information for a particular device? Tell or ask the community ! An announce is also available on Club .

Did you know that Mandriva Linux was used at NASA? Of course, the NASA has been using a lot of powerful computers for a long time, with many different operating systems. And at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology), which specializes in space exploration and missions to planets (such as the ones to Mars), it's common to see people running Linux on their desktop workstation, and especially... Mandriva Linux! A recent article at searchopensource.com gave many details about the use of Linux at the JPL...