Editing Mandriva Linux (section)

==Features==
===Installation, control and administration===
Mandriva Linux contained the [[drakconf|Mandriva Control Center]], which eases configuration of some settings. It has many programs known as Drakes or Draks, collectively named drakxtools, to configure many different settings. Examples include MouseDrake to set up a mouse, DiskDrake to set up disk partitions and drakconnect to set up a network connection. They are written using [[GTK+]] and [[Perl]], and most of them can run in both graphical and text mode using the [[ncurses]] interface.

===Desktops===
Mandriva Linux 2011 was released only with [[KDE Plasma Desktop]], whereas other desktop environments were available but not officially supported.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.openmandriva.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=2011.0_Tour|title=2011.0 Tour - Mandriva Community Wiki|website=archive.openmandriva.org|access-date=2016-11-20|quote=Starting with Mandriva Desktop 2011 only KDE Plasma Desktop is officially supported. If you need Mandriva with another DE or WM you can use unofficial packages or distributions prepared by community members (which are described below).}}</ref> Older Mandriva versions also used KDE as standard but others such as [[GNOME]] were also supported.

===Package manager===
[[Image:Mandriva RPMDrake.png|200px|thumb|[[Rpmdrake]], Mandriva's graphical package manager]]
Mandriva Linux used a [[Package management system|package manager]] called [[urpmi]], which functions as a [[wrapper library|wrapper]] to the [[.rpm]] binaries. It is similar to [[APT (software)|apt]] from [[Debian]] & [[Ubuntu (software)|Ubuntu]], [[pacman (Arch Linux)|pacman]] from Arch Linux, [[yum (software)|yum]] or [[DNF (software)|dnf]] from [[Fedora (software)|Fedora]] in that it allows seamless installation of a given software package by automatically installing the other packages needed. It is also media-transparent due to its ability to retrieve packages from various media, including network/Internet, CD/DVD and local disk. Urpmi also has an easy-to-use graphical front-end called [[rpmdrake]], which is integrated into the Mandriva Control Center.

===Live USB===
A [[Live USB]] of Mandriva Linux can be created manually or with [[UNetbootin]].<ref>{{cite web|title=UNetbootin – Universal Netboot In|url=http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/|publisher=[[SourceForge.net]]|access-date=2013-03-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201042353/http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/|archive-date=2012-12-01}}. Starting with Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring, all ISO images are "hybrid" and can be dumped directly on USB sticks, either manually or using MandrivaSeed program.</ref>