OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released

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OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released

Posted by timothy on Friday September 26, 2014 @12:53PM from the tradition-of-heritage dept.

jrepin writes OpenMandriva is proud to announce the release of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. Most of developers efforts were focused on reducing system boot up time and memory usage. This version brings Linux kernel 3.15.10 (with special patches for desktop system performance, responsiveness, and realtime capabilities), KDE Software Compilation 4.13.3, Xorg 1.15.1, Mesa 10.2.6, LibreOffice 4.3.1, Firefox 32, GNU bash with latest security fixes, and many other updated software packages.

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Dead? by sumdumass · 2014-09-26 13:33 · Score: 1

I thought mandrake/mandriva was pretty much dead for the casual consumer. Is this a spin off or something? Their home page reads a lot like inside baseball where you need to know about the game before understanding the talk about it so I got fed up looking there for more info.
1. Re:Dead? by markdavis · 2014-09-26 13:54 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  It pretty much is. Everyone I knew that used Mandriva switched to Mageia, including myself.
  http://www.mageia.org/
  It is consistently in the top 4 on distrowatch. Mandriva is something like #46 now.
2. Re:Dead? by ruir · 2014-09-26 14:06 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  They might have a shot of it if they stay out of systemd. I am considered leaving Debian.
3. Re:Dead? by ruir · 2014-09-26 14:07 · Score: 1
  
  Mageia seems to be strong in the francophone world.
4. Re:Dead? by sumdumass · 2014-09-26 14:11 · Score: 1
  
  Heh.. I never paid any attention to Mageia. But openmandriva could take a lesson from their "about us" page. It is clear as day what happened (cudos to Mageia).
  I guess I will have to look into both of these when I get time. I lost interest in the mandrake/mandriva distro when they came out with the one release. I really liked the urpmi and their software centers that played off it (before other distros were doing it).
  At one time, Mandrake was a kick ass distro that was simple easy for beginners and powerful enough for about any power user and could easily become a server as well. I'm using ubunto/debian clones now like Netrunner and cannot stand the differences between a redhat style and debian style in the configs and such. But I guess a lot of that has progressed anyways so it would be like starting over. Anyways, thanks for the info.
5. Re:Dead? by sumdumass · 2014-09-26 14:16 · Score: 1
  
  Mandrake which turned into mandriva was originally a french distro which is probably why. Well, they always had an English version that I know of, but their organization and offices when they went commercial was based from France.
  As a fork, it likely forked with a lot of the developers in that area.
6. Re:Dead? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 15:23 · Score: 0
  
  No it's not dead and has never been dead. The company spun off a community and it took them a year to form the foundation for it.
7. Re:Dead? by markdavis · 2014-09-26 17:53 · Score: 1
  
  It is just as strong in the non-francophone world.
8. Re:Dead? by jowifi · 2014-09-27 00:29 · Score: 2
  
  I think you're out of luck. According to the OpenMandriva wiki, they have switched to systemd and built it into their initramfs. Furthermore, "Due to the adoption of systemd the use of a separate /usr partition is no longer possible." The explanation for why this is the case is at freedesktop.org.
9. Re:Dead? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-27 01:21 · Score: 0
  
  I'll give it a test drive. I cut my *nix teeth on Mandrake and switched to CS because it felt so ... empowering I guess is the best word. It'll always have a special place in my heart, even if I don't really need a user-friendly *nix any more.
10. Re:Dead? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-28 02:22 · Score: 0
  
  kidding with the DW HPD is not so hard (it's sufficient a script simulating a lot of visits incoming from a proxy list), but it's unfair...
  do you need one?
11. Re:Dead? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-28 02:35 · Score: 0
  
  Kidding with the DistroWatch HPD, to be in the TOP, is NOT so hard (it's sufficient a script simulating a lot of visits incoming from a proxy list), but it's unfair...
12. Re:Dead? by ruir · 2014-09-28 09:04 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks for saving me the time.
13. Re:Dead? by klossner · 2014-09-30 05:12 · Score: 1
  
  That link takes pains to point out:
  It isn't systemd's fault. systemd works fine with /usr on a separate file system that is not pre-mounted at boot.
  systemd is merely the messenger. Don't shoot the messenger.
Lol by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 13:43 · Score: 0

Why..?
Didn't their user base move to mageia...
I was all about Mandrake/Mandriva for years but... by Lord+Kano · 2014-09-26 14:27 · Score: 2

I'm long gone. I went to Ubuntu back in 2009, primarily because there was an easy way to install TDE and Mandriva didn't have an option.
On some level, I'm happy for them but I don't think they'll be able to reclaim many of the users they lost to Mageia and Ubuntu.
LK

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"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
"GNU bash with latest security fixes" by postmortem · 2014-09-26 14:53 · Score: 2

nice selling point
1. Re:"GNU bash with latest security fixes" by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 16:02 · Score: 0
  
  hehehe .. and a free Richard Stallman poster included ..
2. Re:"GNU bash with latest security fixes" by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 20:52 · Score: 0
  
  hehehe .. and a free Richard Stallman poster included ..
  Is that the Richard Stallman definition of "free" or the one the rest of the world uses?
3. Re:"GNU bash with latest security fixes" by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-27 06:16 · Score: 0
  
  Yes
Open? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 15:42 · Score: 0

Why do Linux distros always put "open" in their name? Unless their goals is to ensure that they will only be used by neckbeards and nerds, because no normal person would ever want to admit they were running "open" blah blah blah.
1. Re:Open? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 15:52 · Score: 1
  
  Well, in this instance, it would seem it is because the original distribution took a turn to focusing on corporate clients with some proprietary stuff added in so the project was forked.
  There is actually a practical reasoning here.
2. Re: Open? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 16:28 · Score: 0
  
  Then fork and give it a new name. The name can be entirely new or somewhat related, like Fedora vs. Red Hat. Dont just name it open whatever and call it a day.
3. Re:Open? by Gavagai80 · 2014-09-27 01:30 · Score: 1
  
  "Open" is prepended to community versions of distros, as opposed to the corporate versions... so yes the goal is to keep it to nerds since there's no official support.
  
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4. Re:Open? by Mr+Foobar · 2014-09-27 07:41 · Score: 1
  
  Well, there was (or still is?) SCO OpenServer... oh, wait.
  
  --
  -> I dislike sigs...
KDE local(e) by pigsycyberbully · 2014-09-26 21:37 · Score: 0

I wonder if like OpenSuSe, in KDE, they use the language of the Franks, for local when selecting English they name local local(e) what would the Gauls think. I remember this company under a different name it was based on Red Hat package manager. I purchased their first powerpack a long time ago 90s? And the last one with a name change "Mageia". All my computers are working computers in the sense that they all have data that is important for a working environment so I will not be able to try this distro. Like Debian they used to be known for their multiple language support localised local.
new bash has flaws by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-26 22:45 · Score: 0

new bash still has flaws
Re:I was all about Mandrake/Mandriva for years but by x_t0ken_407 · 2014-09-27 04:48 · Score: 1

Yeah, Mandriva 2009 was my first Linux distro, and I always advocated for it's use among beginners vs. Ubuntu. I eventually moved on to Fedora, then quickly to Arch (which I still use to this day), due in part to the reasons that subsequently lead up to he Mageia fork...I (like many in the community) saw the writing on the wall long before the fork became a reality. Unfortunate too...I loved Mandriva.
Crime Scene by ald_a · 2014-09-27 07:15 · Score: 1

Has this distribution raped by systemd too?