Greetings Steemit! Some opensource news from @sxiii is here. Great thing is happend: new fresh release of OpenMandriva! If you're interested in trying something new, please read on...
Announce
Cristina Sgubbi has announced the availability of the first development build of the upcoming OpenMandriva Lx 4.0. The new version brings a change in the package management department (a switch to RPM 4 and dnf) and the distribution is now compiled with Clang 7.0: "Today we are proud to introduce you to the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 major release alpha 1. Big changes have happened - we switched to RPM 4 and dnf as the software package manager. We have had massive updates in the core system and rebuilt everything with Clang 7.0, giving you a significant speed increase. OMLx 4.0 now includes complete ports to AArch64 and ARMv7hnl platforms and has started a port to RISC-V. We have also built a version specifically for current AMD processors (Ryzen, ThreadRipper, EPYC) that outperforms the generic version by taking advantage of new features in those processors. Main features: KDE Plasma 5.14.4, KDE Frameworks 5.53.0 and KDE Applications 18.11.90...." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download (MD5): OpenMandrivaLx.4.0-alpha1-plasma.x86_64.iso (2,340MB, MD5, torrent, pkglist). A special "znver1" build optimised for the current range of AMD processors is also available: OpenMandrivaLx.4.0-alpha1-plasma.znver1.iso (2,441MB, MD5). The builds for the AArch64 and ARMv7 architectures were not yet ready at the time of writing.
About
The OpenMandriva distribution is a full-featured Linux desktop and server, sponsored by the OpenMandriva Association. It was based on ROSA, a Russian Linux distribution project which forked Mandriva Linux in 2012, incorporating many of Mandriva's original tools and utilities and adding in-house enhancements. The goal of OpenMandriva is to facilitate the creation, improvement, promotion and distribution of free and open-source software in general, and OpenMandriva projects in particular.
- OS Type: Linux
- Based on: Independent
- Origin: France
- Architecture: i686, x86_64
- Desktop: KDE Plasma
- Category: Desktop, Live Medium, Raspberry Pi
- Status: Active
- Popularity: 118 (85 hits per day)
Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 110 (90), 6 months: 118 (85), 3 months: 113 (98), 4 weeks: 67 (196), 1 week: 15 (686)
Average visitor rating : 8.33 /10 from 24 review(s).
Useful links
| Distribution | OpenMandriva Lx |
|---|---|
| Home Page | http://openmandriva.org/ |
| Mailing Lists | http://ml.openmandriva.org/ |
| User Forums | http://forums.openmandriva.org/ |
| Documentation | http://wiki.openmandriva.org/ |
| Screenshots | DistroWatch Gallery |
| Download Mirrors | https://www.openmandriva.org/download • |
| Bug Tracker | http://issues.openmandriva.org/ |
Video (from alpha)
Feedback
Did you ever tested this Linux distro? Did you know that there are several other distros in the branch: Mageia, ROSA? Please check them out too and write down comments below :)
Skol!
Den Ivanov aka @sxiii from oooooslooooo city