Corporate Desktop 4.0 Available Now from Mandriva

Mandriva announces the availability of their latest release, Corporate Desktop 4.0. Easy-to-use and administer, ergonomically designed and secure are the words used by Mandriva officials in defining this new version in their official press release.

"Corporate Desktop 4.0 is the result of several years of work on integrating the best open source technologies into a unified product dedicated to the enterprise desktop. Robust, secure, and designed for large companies who want to deploy a quality open source desktop, this distribution benefits from Mandriva's experience in ergonomics and ease of use" was saying the Director of Engineering with Mandriva, Anne-Laure Nicolas.

This Corporate Desktop 4 version integrates three virtualization technologies in order to offer a wider array of choices to the users and also a better use of the software technology. Therefore it provides you the Xen virtualization, which allows the simultaneous execution of several Linux instances, VirtualBox, QEMU which allows complete virtualization with open source software and WMware, allowing the creation of completely virtualized machines.

Among other highlights:

- management of 3G, UMTS, GPRS networks
- management of secure access using VPN
- management of disconnected modes for authentication and profiles using it outside company
- complete authentication framework
- encryption mechanism for sensitive data
- software and hardware support for smart cards readers, fingerprints readers, secured keys for strong authentication
- interactive firewall
- integration of the latest 3D technologies (Xgl, AIGLX and Metisse)
- simplified configuration of secure remote access (DrakVPN) and simplified configuration of 3G data cards
- new tool to set KDE user rights from an LDAP directory
- extensively customizable thanks to a new post-installation tool

Corporate Desktop 4.0 provides support for a wide range of current hardware platforms, including also the forthcoming ones expected to be released during 2007 and 2008. It also supports most of the latest technologies, among which: laptop SD card readers, USB UVC-compliant video devices, Attansic L1 ethernet controllers or the Ralink RT2571W/RT2671-based wireless devices.