News on OpenMandriva

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock The Spring Release

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:15:37 +0000

Happy Easter holidays!
we made fruitful use of this time to provide you a nice surprise.

The independent, community controlled distribution OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 fixed point release (as opposed to the rolling release branch), is out right now.

Main features:

- KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (X11 and Wayland available)
- Community spins featuring latest desktop environments LXQt 2.2.0, GNOME 48.1; XFCE and COSMIC 1.0 alpha

- This also features the first official stable release of the OpenMandriva Server edition (more on this near the end of the announcement)

OpenMandriva Rock/5.0 users be ready for OMLx 6.0

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:51:38 +0000

Hello,

The users using OMLx 5.0 with Update channel ‘Rock’ will soon find a surprise: the system automatically converts to 6.0.
This is all intentional, so don’t panic!

The ‘Rock’ channel is designed precisely to automatically switch to the current stable release, in our case the Rock repositories will now point to the 6.0 directory.
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 will in fact be released very soon, in a few days.

Please note: Plasma5 system is not expected to automagically upgrade to Plasma6.
OMLx 5.0 users updating to 6.0 will only get the latest (and last) stable KDE Plasma5 updates. They will switch to Plasma6 when we’ll obsolete Plasma5 with next Rock release.

Thank you Anonymous Donors

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:35:02 +0000

Dear Anonymous Donors,

On behalf of the entire OpenMandriva team, we want to thank you a lot for your generous support.
With your donation you contribute to keep the light on for the OpenMandriva project, allowing us to continue our mission of creating a secure, powerful still user-friendly Linux distribution.

Your contribution helps us with development, infrastructure maintenance, hardware supply, Community building, and ensuring that OpenMandriva remains accessible to all.

OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:06:47 +0000

Here is ROME 24.12 up-to-date installation media

Main features, and changes since ROME 24.07

- KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (x11)
- Spins featuring latest desktop environments GNOME, LXQt Qt6, Plasma 5 and COSMIC 1.0 alpha

- Plasma6 Wayland ISO provided as well
Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox may boot to a black screen and will not work; VirtualBox users may need to set VMSVGA controller to boot successfully;
It works fine on most hardware and in QEmu with KVM.

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:03:00 +0000

Here is ROME 24.07, the rolling release model up-to-date install images.

It basically carries all the features already included in the Release Candidate with the packages updated to the latest versions.

Let’s make a summary of the main peculiarities.

End-user interest:

- Switch to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default

- Spins featuring LXQt (2.0.0 Qt6) and GNOME (46.3)

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Candidate

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:57:11 +0000

We are excited to announce the unscheduled Release Candidate for OpenMandriva rolling release model, ROME 24.07.
This release brings significant updates and improvements.

One of the most notable changes is the switch to Plasma 6 as the default desktop environment.
This major release of the KDE Plasma desktop offers a range of new features and enhancements.

Our release engineers have worked diligently to ensure that Plasma 5 and Plasma 6 packages can coexist when necessary.
While we believe Plasma 6 is ready for everyday use, we also provide an up-to-date ISO image featuring the latest stable Plasma 5 desktop for those who prefer it.

Discovered a backdoor in xz. Security update for OpenMandriva users

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:39:22 +0000

As it might affect cooker and rolling users, please upgrade as soon as possible.

A backdoor in liblzma, part of the xz compressor has been discovered. The exact workings of the backdoor are not yet known; it is, however, clear that it targets OpenSSH servers and hijacks their authentication.

While the cooker and rolling branches of OpenMandriva Lx do include xz 5.6.1 and the problematic code is inside the source tarball, we currently believe that OpenMandriva is NOT vulnerable to this backdoor (the detect script provided by those who found the backdoor agrees with this assessment).
This is because the backdoor relies on implementation details that seem to exist only if openssh was built with gcc (OpenMandriva builds openssh with clang).

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 released

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:06:04 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, the long-awaited release of the independent, community controlled distribution’s fixed point release branch (as opposed to its rolling release branch), has been released.
This is expected to be the last major release featuring the Plasma 5 desktop.

In the 1.5 years since the previous fixed point release, OMLx 4.3, many things have changed.
Among others, the new release is based on kernel 6.6 LTS (kernel-desktop-6.6.2 - 6.7.0-rc2 is also available), Mesa 23.3.0-rc4, Qt 5.15.11+KDE Patches and 6.6.0, KDE Frameworks 5.112, KDE Gear 23.08.3, Plasma 5.27.9.1, LibreOffice 7.6.3, and other current Open Source software.

OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 (and a glimpse of OMLx 5.0)

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:04:14 +0000

The OpenMandriva Team is pleased to offer new ROME 23.08 install images.
These ISOs are also to be considered as upcoming OMLx 5.0 Release Candidate.
A Plasma 6 Technical Preview (cooker) install media is provided as well.

OpenMandriva Lx is a unique Linux distribution. It is fully independently developed, hence not based on any other.
OpenMandriva is the first distro ever built with Clang, starting with OMLx 3.x development cycle in early 2016, even before Android switched its compilers.

OpenMandriva repository mass rebuild

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:09:55 +0000

We are currently running a mass rebuild of all packages making up OpenMandriva, because we have updated our main compiler (this is the tool that translates programmer readable code into machine code) to Clang 16.

While not strictly necessary, after a big compiler update it is a good idea to rebuild everything: it makes the system more reproducable (if you rebuild a package, you get the same results), it may well speed up things (because the newer compiler generates better machine code), and last but not least it makes sure the updated compiler is working properly.

OpenMandriva at Cloudfest

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:16:28 +0000

The world’s largest cloud industry event has once again take over a spectacular European amusement park in Rust, Germany, on the border with France.

This year it is very special, since OpenMandriva takes part!

We all do this because we love technology, we love people, and we are excited for the possibilities that emerge when brilliant human beings connect!

OpenMandriva ROME 23.03

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:57:38 +0000

The OpenMandriva Team is pleased to offer new ROME 23.03 install images.

OpenMandriva Lx is a unique Linux distribution. It is fully independently developed, hence not based on any other.
OpenMandriva is the first distro ever built with Clang, starting with OMLx 3.x development cycle in early 2016, even before Android switched its compilers.

ROME is the rolling release designed mostly for individual users, it will receive the most up to date packages including recent security and bug fix upgrades.

OpenMandriva ROME - The rolling release

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:01:15 +0000

OpenMandriva Team releases ROME 23.01

OpenMandriva ROME Platinum candidate has been released a short time ago and we are confident it has been enjoyed by the users.
To make sure you do not fall behind, we are announcing a new way to keep you up to date: ROME, the OpenMandriva rolling edition.

OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent, not based on any other, linux distribution. A direct descendant of Mandriva Linux and the first Linux distribution utilise the LLVM compiler. This release keeps using the entire LLVM toolchain which completes the work that began in 2015, even before Android switched its compilers.

OpenMandriva ROME 22.12 Platinum Candidate

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:34:03 +0000

ROME Platinum Candidate

OpenMandriva Team releases ROME 22.12 Platinum Candidate.

ROME is the rolling release designed for individual users, it will receive the most up to date packages including recent security and bug fix upgrades.

Some of the major changes since ROME Gold Candidate:

Kernel 6.0.10 (clang compiled kernel as default, with the option to install GCC compiled kernel easily from the om-welcome module)
KDE Frameworks 5.100.0, Plasma Desktop 5.26.4, KDE Gear 22.08.3
LibreOffice suite 7.4.3.2, VLC 3.0.18, Chromium Browser Stable 107.0, Krita 5.1.3
LLVM/Clang 15.0.6, systemd 252
More software upgraded to the latest version.

OpenMandriva ROME Gold Candidate

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:56:48 +0000

ROME Gold Candidate

OpenMandriva Team introduces you the ROME Gold Candidate.

ROME is the rolling release designed for individual users, it will receive the most up to date packages including recent security and bug fix upgrades.

Some of the major changes since ROME Silver Candidate:

Kernel 5.19.12 (clang compiled kernel as default, with the option to install GCC compiled kernel easily from the om-welcome module)
The very latest KDE products: KDE Frameworks 5.98.0, Plasma Desktop 5.25.90, KDE Gear 22.08.1
LibreOffice suite 7.4.1, VLC 3.0.17, Krita 5.1
LLVM/Clang 15.0.1, systemd 251,Calamares 3.2.61
More software upgraded to the latest version

OpenMandriva on Ampere Altra

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:40:00 +0000

There has been great news for OpenMandriva a couple of days ago: We got a nice large box in the mail.

[

->document320] Even though the weight of the box was pretty impressive when I had to carry it to the second floor, the content turned out to be far more impressive - a Mt. Collins server with Ampere Altra CPUs - 160 CPU cores and 128 GB RAM, given to us by Ampere Computing to support our aarch64 development efforts.

Want to contribute to making ROME better? Backgrounds contest

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:52:40 +0000

OpenMandriva ROME will need more beautiful pictures.
Extra backgrounds is a collection of non-default wallpapers contributed by the users.

The theme for this competition is free. However, as usual, here are the rules:

– All submissions should be original works, and carry a license equivalent to CC BY SA;
– Wallpapers could be photography, digital art, or art, falling in categories like Abstract, Monochrome, Animal life, Landscapes, Local culture;
– The submissions must not contain anything that can be offensive to others; so we suggest to not submit religious, sexual, violent materials, etc.;
– The pictures should not contain any recognizable people;
– Image dimensions should preferably be around to 1920×1200px, the image size should not exceed 2 MB;
– A contributor may submit more than one wallpaper (up to 5).

OpenMandriva Lx ROME (Rolling) Technical Preview

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:32:47 +0000

Here is the Technical Preview of the upcoming OpenMandriva Lx ROME (Rolling), and after a few time also the 5.0 ‘Rock’ snapshot

Installing Rolling is pretty much the same as installing Rock.

There is an auto updater tool in ABF (OpenMandriva Automated Build Farm) which has been kept turned off for longer that we anticipated so Rolling has not been getting many upgrades recently and has not really been ‘rolling’. This is because developers have been making some big changes to tool-chain/system packages in the Cooker branch (where the upgrades come from) that would make it unsafe and unwise at this time.
After Rolling official released we will turn auto updater on again and we will have Rolling back to actually ‘rolling’.
We believe now Cooker has reached the quality level we want to get in order to release a reliable system.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 released

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 01:41:06 +0000

We are pleased to announce the latest release of the OpenMandriva Distribution, OMLx 4.3

OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent linux distribution, a direct descendant of Mandriva Linux and the first Linux distribution utilise the LLVM compiler. This release keeps using the entire LLVM toolchain which completes the work that began in 2015.
We hope that you find that this link time optimised desktop and its supporting applications to be bright and responsive in use. You can find out more about link time optimisation here: https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html

OpenMandriva switching to Github Issues

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:27:02 +0000

OpenMandriva switching issue tracker from Bugzilla to Github Issues.

To make things easier and simpler for users to file issue reports we are switching to Github Issues.
To use GH issues go here and sign up for an account. Unfortunately accounts do not transfer from Bugzilla.

All bug reports from our Bugzilla were migrated to our GH issue tracker. On that page you will see all the current open issues, a link to closed issues, and a button to file a New Issue. Under the New Issue button users will have the choice of 4 categories with simple explanation and instruction.

OpenMandriva on IRC.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:01:08 +0000

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.

OpenMandriva is no longer using Freenode IRC. There are Matrix channels for OpenMandriva (user channel) and OpenMandriva Cooker (developer channel). These are also channels at Libera Chat. #openmandriva @ libera.chat and #openmandriva-cooker @ libera.chat. The Matrix and Libera Chat channels are bridged (interconnected). They are also bridged with Telegram.

Connecting with Matrix is described at Chat.

Connecting via Libera Chat is described at Libera.Chat.

Regarding why this change is made, users are encouraged to do an internet search of “Why are Open Source organizations leaving Freenode?” and read for themselves.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC available for testing

Mon, 24 May 2021 16:43:05 +0000

We have good news: Cooker, our development branch, is working very well right now.
Our internal testers have been reporting that the system looks very responsive and already brings many user visible advantages over OMLx 4.2.

Hence we decided to publish a unscheduled stable release to permit the Rock users to enjoy of a good amount of updates they would otherwise not get (unless they upgrade to Rolling) before moving ahead with the more ambitious plans for OMLx 5.0.
Here is the Release Candidate.

Plans for OM Lx 4.3 release

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:16:38 +0000

It’s not what we were originally planning, but we are planning an OM Lx 4.3 release very soon – an extra release made possible by the load of progress made in the Cooker development branch before getting to some of the major core changes planned for 5.0 – changes we don’t want to withhold from people who don’t want to install a 5.0 development snapshot or wait for a few more months.

OpenMandriva build infrastructure switches to ARM servers

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:30:34 +0000

As you may have noticed, the ABF build system has moved to a new server and is now fully operational.

What you probably have not noticed is that it is now running on an ARM (aarch64) server.

When looking for a new host, we decided to go with the aarch64 option - aarch64 support in OpenMandriva 4.2 is stable, the workloads on abf are perfect for a heavily multithreaded system, and reducing power consumption definitely can’t hurt.

ABF build system and mirrors down problem resolved

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:59:28 +0000

We had a hardware failure of our main server, ABF, on which all our packages are generated before being distributed to the various mirrors around the world.

This should not have been a problem for OpenMandriva users on channels 4.2, Rock, Rolling and Cooker, as the mirror redirector continued to redirect them to the nearest mirrors.

It was still possible to install packages available on the mirrors, however it was not possible at that moment to offer new packages nor updates.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is out now

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 23:26:17 +0000

The OpenMandriva Team is pleased to announce the general availability of the latest stable version. Say hello to OpenMandriva Lx 4.2.

OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent distribution, direct descendant of Mandriva Linux and the first Linux distribution using the LLVM toolchain by default since 2015.

In the OpenMandriva Lx system the users can do anything they are used to doing with the proprietary systems, but it is free and already includes many pieces of software you have to pay for in the proprietary world, from office suites to video editors to games.

FOSDEM 2021

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:43:50 +0000

This week-end is #FOSDEM (6 & 7 February 2021)! We will be glad to welcome you at our virtual booth, located in the operating systems area 🙂

https://stands.fosdem.org/

You might also be interested in one of bero’s conferences:

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/speaker/bernhard_rosenkranzer/

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC available for testing

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:18:19 +0000

The RC milestone of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release cycle has been released.

Warning: This is a development product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment.

Release Candidate has the potential to be a final product.
A short time ago we anticipated the release of Beta in December, and the product got an intensive internal testing. The testers reported that current quality is more close to RC than Beta.
Basically, RC will become the final OMLx 4.2 release very soon, unless we get serious bug reports.
On this regard we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our forum or at our Issues Tracker system.
You can get in touch real time with our developers at IRC channel #openmandriva-cooker on freenode and #openmandriva-cooker:matrix.org in matrix.

OpenMandriva embroidered garments

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:18:31 +0000

Hello,

we are pleased to announce that Gabor Kum, founder of HelloTux, has just added a clothing line with the OpenMandriva logo. Each item sold brings 3€50 to our Association, so it is an alternative way to support us :)

Hellotux, is a Hungarian family business designing embroidered garments with the image of free software, which exists since 2003 and has always been faithful to the spirit of free software. Here you can find more information about the company.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha available for testing

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:53:42 +0000

Here we have the Alpha milestone of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release cycle.

Warning: This is an alpha product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment.

Alpha release is primarily for testing and bug squashing. Testing is a critical step during development as all bug fixing will take place during this lapse of time.
Therefore we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our forum or at Github Issues.
You can get in touch real time with our developers at IRC channel #openmandriva-cooker on freenode.

News from 2020-07-09 TC Meeting

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:20:39 +0000

News from our most recent TC-Meeting 2020-07-09:

Our Project Leader Bero said we are almost ready to copy cooker repos to rolling repos, which will bring some big changes to Rolling experimental project.

Notably changes regarding how 32-bit library packages are handled. They will be in the x86_64 or znver1 repos now so user will not need to add i686 repos to install wine, steam, other 32-bit games, or apps.
It will all work with just the one wine package, whereas before OM users had to switch between wine-32 and wine-64 which was also time consuming.
Existing Rolling users will need to remove all i686 packages and then reinstall any of these types of software such as wine, steam, other games and apps.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 2020.05 snapshot

Sun, 31 May 2020 23:57:05 +0000

OMLx ‘Rock’ (currently 4.1) is for users who want a stable system.

Please note that Rock system will receive only bug fixes and security updates.
The user wishing for the latest and brightest without having to wait for a new release may want to install ‘Rolling’ instead, our new release branch which we are going to officially announce very soon.

By default, only /main repository is enabled in OpenMandriva releases. If you want to find out all the packages available please use Software Repository Selector (om-repo-picker) and enable additional repositories. Guide here.

And OpenMandriva did better: OMLx 4.1 final release is out now!

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 23:36:51 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 turned out to be a great one but… we made it better.

Few days after the Release Candidate we are very proud to introduce you OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 final release.

The release includes:
— Kernel 5.5.0
— Qt Framework 5.14.1
— KDE Plasma Desktop 5.17.5, KDE Frameworks 5.66.0, KDE Applications 19.12.1
— LLVM/clang 9.0.1
— systemd 244
— Java 13
— Calamares 3.2.17
— LibreOffice 6.4.0.3
— Falkon 3.1.0
— Krita 4.2.8
— Kdenlive 19.12.1
— SMPlayer 19.10.2
— DigiKam 7.0.0
— SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.11
— NX Firewall (replaces firewall-config)

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 RC is out

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:34:32 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 is just around the corner. The team is publishing today the last milestone for current release cycle.
OMLx 4.1 RC release is mostly bug fixing and update packages.

This release includes:
— Kernel 5.5.0
— Qt Framework 5.14.0
— KDE Plasma Desktop 5.17.5, KDE Frameworks 5.66.0, KDE Applications 19.12.1
— LLVM/clang 9.0.1
— Java 13
— LibreOffice 6.4.0.1
— Falkon 3.1.0
— Krita 4.2.8
— Kdenlive 19.12.1
— SMPlayer 19.10.2
— DigiKam 7.0.0
— SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.11
— NX Firewall

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta available for testing

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:24:41 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta is available for download and testing.

Beta milestone is closer to final release, although still in need of more testing and fine-tuning.
Therefore the developers will be glad to read your feedback and bug reports at our forum or at our bug tracking system.

Major changes:

– The kernel has been updated to 5.4.7
– Qt has been updated to 5.14.0
– Plasma has been updated: Frameworks 5.65, Plasma Desktop 5.17.4, Applications 19.12.0
– More alternative desktops are available for testing
– We also provide the OpenMandriva clang compiled kernel, named kernel-release-clang. User can install same version of kernel-release and kernel-release-clang for comparison. Clang is the default compiler in OpenMandriva, but only recently the kernel was made compatible with it. For now, this is experimental
– We also provide Zypper as alternative package manager

Bright and Shiny: Wallpaper Contest

Sun, 08 Dec 2019 17:00:38 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 will need more beautiful pictures.
Wallpapers-extra is a collection of 10 non-default wallpapers contributed by the users.

The theme for this competition is “Bright and Shiny”, so try to stick to the theme.
“Mercury” (in all meanings) is an available subject as well, since it is the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 codename.

As usual, here are the rules:

– All submissions should be original works, and carry a license equivalent to CC BY SA,
– Wallpapers could be Photography, Digital Art, or Art, falling in categories like Abstract, Monochrome, Animal life, Landscapes, Local culture,
– The submissions must not contain anything that can be offensive to others; so we suggest to not submit religious, sexual, violent materials,
– The pictures should not contain any recognizable people,
– Image dimensions should preferably be 1920×1200; image size should not exceed 2 MB,
– A user may submit more than one wallpaper (up to 5).

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Alpha available for testing

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 03:24:18 +0000

The first OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 release cycle milestone is available for download and testing.

Testing is a critical step during development as all bug fixing will take place during this lapse of time. Therefore we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our forum or at our bug tracking system.

Major changes since 4.0:

– The toolchain has been updated - everything has been built with glibc 2.30 and clang 9.0
– The kernel has been updated to 5.3.9
– Qt has been updated to 5.14.0 (beta 2 for now, will be 5.14.0 final for the final version)
– Plasma has been updated: Frameworks 5.64, Plasma Desktop 5.17.2, Applications 19.08.3
– More alternative desktops are available for testing
– We also provide the OpenMandriva clang compiled kernel, named kernel-release-clang. User can install same version of kernel-release and kernel-release-clang for comparison. It is built from the same sources as the regular kernel package, but has been built using the clang toolchain instead of gcc. Clang is the default compiler in OpenMandriva, but only recently the kernel was made compatible with it - for now, this is experimental.

The best, until OpenMandriva does better: released OMLx 4.0

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:26:40 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release is out now!

Exciting news!
Shortly after the release candidate we are very proud to introduce you the fruit of so much work, some visible and much more behind the scenes and under the hood.

OpenMandriva Lx is a cutting edge distribution compiled with LLVM/clang, combined with the high level of optimisation used for both code and linking (by enabling LTO, and profile guided optimizations for some key packages where reliable profile data is easy to generate) used in its building.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 RC released

Sun, 12 May 2019 12:40:32 +0000

Dear Community,
We are almost there. Last step before the long awaited OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 is Release Candidate that we are happy to release today.

This milestone got another turn of bug fixing, fine-tuning, and several updates including Plasma5 desktop, KDE Frameworks and KDE Applications, LLVM/clang, Java.

Core packages updated:
Kernel 5.1.0
KDE Plasma: 5.15.5
KDE Frameworks: 5.57.0
KDE Applications: 19.04.1
Qt Framework 5.12
Systemd 242
LLVM/clang 8.0.1
Java 12

A promise for the best until OpenMandriva does better: OMLx 4.0 Beta

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 13:28:37 +0000

Dear Community,
Our first release in 2019 is OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Beta, a close preview of the upcoming final release.

Since Alpha1, OMLx 4.0 got a huge number of fixes and improvements.
You may already be aware of some of them having read OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Alpha1 follow-up, some more came afterwards.

Live mode:
ISO menu new entries for language and keyboard preference
Upon user’s request, KPatience card games have been included in ISO (live mode only)

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Alpha1 follow-up

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:09:36 +0000

OMLx 4.0 is under heavy development.

New applications joined the list of system default installed ones. Some great improvements concerning Calamares installer: useful, pretty, and long awaited features.
Last but not least, several bugs fixed since Alpha1 public release. On this regard we want to thank you very much for any bug report our users have submitted either at Forum or at Issue Tracker System, meanwhile we exhort you to please keep reporting any issue you may find, to give us nice suggestions, as well as to write your opinions and feedbacks, so that we will be able to deliver you the best OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release.

We proudly introduce you OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 major release Alpha1

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 23:09:07 +0000

Dear Community,
Some time passed after our latest public release OMLx 3.03 though we have been very active since then.
Today we are proud to introduce you to OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 major release Alpha1.

Big changes happened, such as we switched to RPMv4, and dnf as 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.

[Video] Porting OpenMandriva to various architectures

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:55:35 +0000

Hungry for the news? Here it is folks!

OpenMandriva goes again beyond - did you know that you can port it to various architectures? AArch64, armv7hnl, RISC-V, Ryzen - make your call!

Interested? Then check out the video below, our freshly elected new President of the OpenMandriva association, Bero, presents this topic on Embedded Linux Conference in Edinburgh in October, and then delivers same to Linux Piter in St.Petersburg, Russia, early November (pictures below in portfolio).

OpenMandriva Council: new Chairman elected and welcome to new entries

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:17:14 +0000

First of all congratulations to Bernhard Rosenkränzer, aka bero, elected as new OpenMandriva Association Chairman.

Bero is one of the most active developers inside OpenMandriva, and also one of the founders of the association.

We also welcome two new Council members: Ben Bullard aka ben79 and Denis Silakov.

Ben is one of the pillars of OpenMandriva, QA-Team member, he is the strongest link between the community and the development team (aka Cooker) and the most active forum user.

Renewal of OpenMandriva Council

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:26:37 +0000

Dear Community,
here are the people who will stand in new Council for the next 2 years:

Ben Bullard, Colin Close, Raphaël Jadot, Alexander Khryukin, Kate Lebedeff, Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Rugyada, Denis Silakov, Jean-Claude Vanier.

The list has been unanimously approved by all members participating to the topic at Loomio, our decision-taking platform.
Congratulation everybody, and a special Welcome onboard! to Ben Bullard and Denis Silakov.

ABF and File Store moved and improved

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:29:12 +0000

Improvements with our ABF (Automatic Build Farm) and File Store are essentially done now, as well as moving it to a remote part of a neutral country.
Thanks especially to our priceless ABF expert Alexander Khryukin (fedya), with a strong assist from Gabriel Craciunescu (crazy), HisShadow, Neil Gompa (Son_Goku), Raphael Jadot (ashledombos), and Bernhard Rosenkranzer (bero).

What we are hoping to accomplish by this move:

1. Solve the stability problems we have seen with ABF lately
2. Get better performance (1 GBit/s connection)
3. Get more control over the hardware (if we need to put in another hard disk or so, we can)
4. Save loads of money (box hosted under someone's desk instead of having to rent 2 servers)

A special grateful thanks to Bero, hosting OpenMandriva servers in his web farm and attentively taking care of them.

Important changes in “Issue Tracker” (Bugzilla) for package requests

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:55:04 +0000

Previously our bugzilla was set up to use ‘trivial/enhancement’ for package requests. Due to ongoing confusion with some users this has been changed.

To make a request for new or updated packages in OpenMandriva first go to https://issues.openmandriva.org/ select ‘New’ next select your version of OMLx (currently OMLx 3 or Cooker) then under ‘Importance’ select ‘Packaging’ and under ‘severity’ select ‘feature’. Then please include a brief description of what you want and why this should be an OM distribution package. Also please include a link to the ‘Home’ website of the software in question and if possible a link to the source code. That’s all there is to it. :-)

The Atmosphere: Wallpaper Contest

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:10:23 +0000

While OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 is in the Cooker, we need the help of our fellow community for the wallpapers-extra contest.
Wallpapers-extra is a collection of 10 non-default wallpapers contributed by the users.

The theme for this competition is “The Atmosphere”, so try to stick to the theme.
“Nitrogen” (the actual chemical element from the periodic table), is an available subject as well, since it is the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 codename.

Of course there are some rules:

Major updated packages for Lx 3

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:32:34 +0000

Good news for OpenMandriva Lx 3 users. While OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 in on the way, we keep taking care of OMLx 3.03. Developers crisb, itchka, and TPG have made available a long list of updated packages just released to our updates repositories after the normal testing.

Updated packages include Firefox 61.0.1, Thunderbird 52.9.0, Plasma 5.12.6, Quassel 0.12.5, Qt5 5.9.6, Libre Office 6.0.5, Mesa 18.1.3 and number of other updated KDE packages.

Development news Week 2018-28

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:41:28 +0000

In preparation for OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 release, we’ve started a rebuild of all packages to detect errors and make sure everything is built with the current toolchains.

The mass build also prepares for a special surprise feature of OMLx 4.0.

The KDE updates that have just been/are about to be released (Frameworks 5.48.0, Plasma 5.13.3, Apps 18.04.3), and possibly future revisions, will make it into OMLx 4.0.

An updated script is now available to allow upgrade from OMLx 3.03 to cooker (soon to be OMLx 4.0). Final testing is underway, watch for announcement in the blog.

Summer news

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:41:52 +0000

Hello,

Here are some quick news about the distribution:

OpenMandriva Lx 4 is getting closer, Cooker already contains reworked base system including rpm4, dnf, kernels 4.17/4.18, glibc 2.27, clang 7, gcc 8.1, Python 3.7, Qt 5.11.1, KDE Frameworks 5.47, Plasma Desktop 5.13.2, KApps 18.04.2, LibreOffice 6.0.2
alternative desktops LXQt 0.13.0 and Lumina 1.4.0 are also available
OMLx4 will include complete ports to aarch64 and armv7hnl platforms
A RISC-V board has arrived - now we can start porting to that first open source CPU (this is not expected to finish in time for 4.0)

Why nvidia drivers sometimes don't build when new kernel is introduced.

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:14:01 +0000

Some users may have the misconception that as soon as a new kernel package is introduced then the existing nvidia kernel modules should automatically, right away work with the new kernel. By now we all should realize this does not work this way. Why?

nvidia driver releases are designed to work up to a specific kernel version and often need to be patched to work with later kernel versions. Be aware that nVidia is closed source so these patches are mostly provided by nVidia or other kernel hackers. Whatever the source of the patches they are not usually available until after a new kernel is released. It is therefore inevitable that in some instances there will be a delay between the time when a new kernel is released by OpenMandriva and when a new nVidia driver package can be made available.

Switching to RPMv4

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:38:26 +0000

Note: This is a cooker message, from Tomasz Paweł Gajc aka TPG, converted here as a blog post. All content is a quote from this thread.

Hello,

we are about to swtich RPM to version 4.

Cooker and 3.0 may be broken for upcoming days, as we need to adapt our docker builders and scripts to RPM4 and DNF.

Yes DNF, and this means urpmi is going to say bye bye for cooker and 4.0. Bero and Neal Gompa (aka ngompa) are working on smooth upgrade process from 3.x to cooker/4.0

Channel #OpenMandriva available for users on Freenode IRC

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:14:18 +0000

The recent server shutdown has prompted me to remind all OpenMandriva users that we do have a channel on IRC where users can ask questions and present problems. Currently it is not being used much but we would like to encourage greater use. There are some developers that are logged in and will check things out periodically. So if no one responds right away just give it some time. This is a ‘general’ use channel for questions, comments, and problem solving.

eelo, mobile OS and web services, by Gaël Duval

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:45:52 +0000

We’d like to make the promotion of a kickstarter project by Gaël Duval.

Nearly 20 years ago, he created Mandrake, later Mandriva, on which we based our distribution. He is now invested in building an opensource and privacy focused ecosystem called eelo.

Note that this is not an OpenMandriva project, though we think it’s a good idea to spread it. It looks like the early days of Mandrake, when it was a polished assemblage of the best existing opensource softwares and environments (Red Hat and KDE amongst others in 1998), and a new credible alternative, for average users, to existing proprietary and locked environments.

OpenMandriva Lx 3.03 - Get it while it's hot!

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:55:39 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 3.03 is now well seasoned ready to deliver.

This release Lx 3.03 is an enhancement and upgrade to the previous Lx 3 releases.
With it you’ll get even faster booting than before, so fast in fact that it’s sometimes quicker than the BIOS!
Even the live image boots faster than before.

At the hardware level there is an up-to-date kernel at 4.13.12 release and systemd 234 and for your graphics stack mesa 17.2.3 with a S3TC support enabled and xorg 1.19.5.

OpenMandriva upcoming release plans for Lx 3.03 and Lx 4.0

Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:15:30 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 has just been released for the Community, and we are already looking forward to the next release update new spin as well as our next major release 4.0.

We are working on two fronts:

the short time project, as in having the latest and brightest components from KDE, a new Qt, the latest kernel with built in zstd compression/decompression algorithm for ISO for what it concerns the current stable 3.xx branch. This will grant us the OMLx 3.03 Release Update pretty soon;

OpenMandriva Lx Project of the Week at SourceForge

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:06:05 +0000

OpenMandriva Lx at SourceForge is among Projects of the Week July 3rd, 2017.

Sourceforge top release of the week

A proud scion of name: OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 release

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Dear Community,

After several months of hard work we are very proud and excited to announce OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 release today.
We hope you will enjoy this release of OpenMandriva Lx, its range of cutting edge features, quick to boot, fast in use and which brings you all the latest software.

It comes after our holidays gift, and this time it is a solstice gift =)

The distribution ISO is bootable in BIOS or UEFI from usb stick or DVD and uses the Calamares installer to guide you through installation with the minimum of effort.

OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 is just a step away

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 11:27:17 +0000

Dear Community,

We are working hard on development of upcoming OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 release.

KApps currently in 17.04.0 version will be updated soon to 17.04.1.
OMLx 3.02 will contain also Plasma 5.9.5, KFrameworks 5.33.0, Mesa 17.1 and Qt 5.8.0.

Please be patience for a little still longer, you will be rewarded :-)

OpenMandriva Team

One single place for community discussions

Sun, 28 May 2017 18:28:50 +0000

OpenMandriva Team is proud to show to Community the result of latest effort from Infrastructure group: the aggregation of our forum, mailing list and blog comments.

We always wished to have a single place to discuss about everything. From what is deeply technical, to a more informal environment where we can discuss any argument may interest our Community. So that people don’t miss any information just because they did not subscribe to the «right» channel.