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OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Dead? by markdavis · · 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 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They might have a shot of it if they stay out of systemd. I am considered leaving Debian.