OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 Released
If you’re into rolling release Linux distributions, OpenMandriva ROME has a new snapshot with a new kernel.
OpenMandriva ROME is one of the first (if not the first) Linux distributions to ship with the 6.10 kernel, thanks to the latest Lx 24.07 release. On top of that, users will find Plasma Desktop 6.1, GNOME 46.3, or LXQt 2.0 (depending on which spin is chosen).
The flagship edition of OpenMandriva defaults to Plasma Desktop, which includes KDE Gear 24.05.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.4. Unfortunately, the distribution still relies on X11, due to the developers feeling Wayland isn’t yet mature enough. In fact, when attempting to install the Wayland release of OpenMandriva as a VirtualBox virtual machine (VM), it boots to a black screen; no matter how you tweak the VM settings, it will not work.
Do keep in mind, however, that the Wayland ISO does work on bare metal and Qemu with KVM.
Other notable changes to the latest snapshot include support for AMD ROCm, the latest LibreOffice office suite (with Qt 6 and Plasma 6 integration included), LLVM/Clang 18.1.8, GCC 14.1.0, glibc 2.39, systemd 255.7, Mesa 24.1.4, and many others. As well, OpenMandriva packages are available for Wine, Proton, and Proton experimental.
You can read more about this latest release from the official announcement and download an ISO from the OpenMandriva SourceForge page.
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