In the past few days French-based Linux company Mandriva has released a beta version of its upcoming Mandriva 2010 Linux distribution. We took it for a spin in a virtualised VMware environment.
You can find the complete release notes and download the software here.










I'm very impressed. It works extremely well for a beta version even on my old laptop where only Windows XP runs reasonably well. Even 3D effects work just fine. BTW my desktop looks a lot more pretty than the one on these screenshots. Probably you have selected one of the two other options than KDE.