Mandriva, ohhh Mandriva how do we love you. Let us count the ways. It's all been said before hasn't it? Mandriva has been well loved by the Linux community from day one and I'd be a liar if I said I'd never gazed upon it's polished desktop with the utmost respect and appreciation for the work their developers put into their product. Mandriva (the artist formerly known as Mandrake) has always been about the desktop. Sure, they've got their enterprise products just like any other major Linux software developer, but from this author's armchair, it sure would seem their heart and soul is rooted deeply in the Linux desktop... and there's nothing wrong with that. Their French heritage shows in their passion for excellence and it hasn't gone unnoticed. After all, somebody has got to make sure the Linux desktop is on a constant upswing, right?