Developers of the OpenMandriva project presented the preliminary release of the new version of the distribution Openmandriva LX Rome, which uses a continuous delivery of updates (Rolling-letters). The proposed edition allows you to access new versions of packages developed for the OpenMandriva LX 5.0 branch. To download prepared ISO-image in size of 2.6 GB of work table KDE. Live mode.
From the new versions of packages in the assembly of OpenMandriva LX Rome, the kernel 5.18.12 (collected using Clang), Python 3.11, Java 20, KDE Frameworks 5.96.0, Plasma Desktop 5.25.3 and KDE GEAR 22.04.2 is noted. A reorganization of the structure of the file system has been carried out – all executable files and libraries from the root directory are transferred to the /usr section (catalogs /bin, /sbin and /lib* decorated as symbolic references to the corresponding catalogs inside /USR). Support for installation on sections with FS BTRFS and XFS is resumed. In addition to the default DNF4 file manager, DNF5 and ZyPper are proposed as alternatives.