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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.

  3. I was all about Mandrake/Mandriva for years but... by Lord+Kano · · 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

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

    nice selling point

  5. Re:Dead? by jowifi · · 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.