Starting with December 11th, Mandriva has a new and innovative product, Mandriva Flash. Mandriva Flash is a pre-installed Mandriva Linux distribution on a simple 2GB USB flash drive. All you have to do is to plug the USB stick on a Personal Computer and you'll have the Mandriva Linux 2007 operating system ready to use in no time. You can also save and exchange your data on the free 1GB! Mandriva Flash that will surprise you whether you already are a Linux user or not.

What are the highlights of Mandriva Flash?

￭ Mobile: take it everywhere and make any desktop your own!
￭ Handy: everything for your office work, Internet and multimedia... on a stick!
￭ Keep your personal data in your pocket!
￭ Fun: spectacular 3D-accelerated desktop, only with Linux!
￭ Safe: it doesn't make any changes on the host computer.
￭ Reliable: unmatched stability and hardware recognition.
￭ Fast: high data transfer rates with USB 2.0.
￭ Storage: 1GB available for user files

You can use the Mandriva Flash in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Bokmaal, Finnish (Suomi), Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.

What software is installed?

￭ Kernel 2.6.17
￭ Glibc 2.4
￭ X.org 7.1
￭ KDE 3.5.4
￭ GCC 4.1
￭ OpenOffice 2.0.3
￭ Mozilla 1.5.0.6
￭ Flash Player 7.0.68
￭ RealPlayer 10.0.8.805

Hardware Requirements for Mandriva Flash:

￭ CPU: all Pentium, Celeron, Athlon, Duron, Sempron processors
￭ RAM: 256MB minimum, 512MB recommended.
￭ Graphic cards: NVIDIA, ATI, Intel i8xx and i9xx.
￭ Sound cards: all Sound Blaster compatible cards and AC97.

With Mandriva Flash, you can now prove to the world that size does matter!

You can buy Mandriva Flash product now from the Mandriva Store.