Mandriva have just announced the 2008 of their popular free Linux distribution and it comes standard with a cutting-edge 3D-accelerated desktop courtesy of Compiz Fusion 0.5.2

Also included is KDE 3.5.7, the new GNOME 2.20, a solid kernel 2.6.22.9 with fair scheduling support, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6.

Mandriva Linux 2008 is available for download free of charge at the Mandriva website. They recommend the One installation CD which comes with a full KDE desktop and application suite, NVIDIA and ATI proprietary video card drivers, Intel wireless firmware, Adobe Flash and Sun Java browser plugins.