After a year of development release of the distribution OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 . The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. transferred project management into the hands of the non-profit organization “OpenMandriva Association”. To download Live-build 2.4 GB (x86_64), build “znver1”, optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors, as well as images for use on ARM devices Pinebook Pro, Rock Pi 4 (A / B / C), Raspberry Pi 400, Raspberry Pi 4B, and Raspberry Pi 3B +.
In new version :
- A port for 64-bit ARM processors (aarch64) has been prepared and the formation of assemblies for Pinebook Pro, Raspberry Pi 4B / 3B +, Rock Pi 4A, 4B and 4C, Synquacer, Cubox Pulse devices, as well as general assembly for server boards, has begun. supporting UEFI. Work is underway to create a variant of OpenMandriva for smartphones, the corresponding experimental build is already developing for the PinePhone device … Work began on a port for the RISC-V architecture, which was not included in the 4.2 release.
- The Clang compiler used to build packages has been updated to the LLVM 11 branch. To build all the components of the distribution, you can only do with Clang. Updated system components, including Linux kernel 5.10.14, systemd 247, GCC 10.2, GLibc 2.33, Java 15. The installer was updated to version Calamares 3.2.35.
- The user environment has been updated to KDE Plasma 5.20.5, KDE Frameworks 5.78.0 and KDE Applications 20.12.2. Graphics stack components have been updated to Wayland 1.20.10, Mesa 20.3, Xorg Server 1.20.10 and Qt 5.15.2.
- The OM Welcome application has been improved, designed for initial configuration and familiarization of the user with the system, in which it became possible to quickly install standard additional programs that are not included in the basic delivery.
- The Desktop Presets (om-feeling-like) configurator has been updated, offering a set of presets that allow you to make the KDE Plasma desktop look like other environments (for example, make it look like the interface of Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows 10, macOS, etc.) );
/Media reports.