I was able to run Arduino 010 on Mandriva Linux 2008. Basically, I had to install these the avr rpms from Fedora 8:

avr-binutils-2.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gcc-4.1.2-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gcc-c++-4.1.2-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gdb-6.6-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-libc-1.4.6-4.fc8.noarch.rpm
avr-libc-docs-1.4.6-4.fc8.noarch.rpm

I found some problems when trying to access the USB port as a normal user, also reported here. However, the proposed solutions (changing the permissions of /dev/ttyUSB0, adding user to lock and uucp groups) didn’t work for me. So far, I’m able to access the Arduino board by running the IDE as root user. I’ll try to find a workaround for this in the near future.