Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:05 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete LAMP setup, and available KDE 4.0.2. See here for download information.
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Codeina
by Rahul on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:59 UTC
Rahul
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2005-07-06

I am curious how Mandriva benefits from it since they are a distribution based on France where patents on software is not enforced and they can legally ship Free software even when it is patent encumbered unlike Fedora which is US based on has to rely on Codeina as shown at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Codeina