Almost three years after the formation of the last significant branch distribution release . The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA transferred the management of the project to the non-profit organization "OpenMandriva Association". For loading 2.6 GB live build (x86_64 and "znver1" build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors).
The release of OpenMandriva Lx 4 is notable for the switch to a package manager , console toolkit and the Dnfdragora package management GUI. Previously, the project used a separately developed branch , the urpmi toolkit, and the rpmdrake GUI. RPMv4 is maintained by Red Hat and is used by distributions such as Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, and SUSE. Branch developed by third-party enthusiasts and has been stagnating for many years - the last stable release was formed in 2010, after which development stopped. Unlike RPMv5, the RPMv4 project is actively developed and maintained, and provides a more complete set of tools for managing packages and repositories. Switching to RPMv4 will also get rid of the dirty hacks and auxiliary Perl scripts currently used in OpenMandriva.
Others in OpenMandriva Lx 4:
- The Clang compiler used to build packages has been updated to the LLVM 8.0.1 branch. Updated kernel versions Linux 5.1, Systemd 242, GCC 9.1, glibc 2.29, binutils 2.32, OpenJDK 12, Perl, 5.28, Python 3.7.3 (Python 2 is excluded from the base distribution);
- Graphics stack and user applications updated: KDE Plasma 5.15.5, KDE Frameworks 5.58.0, KDE Applications 19.04.2, Qt 5.12.3, Xorg 1.20.4, Wayland 1.17, Mesa 19.0.3, Pulseaudio 12.2, LibreOffice 6.2.4 , Calligra 3.1.0, Firefox 66.0.5, Falkon 3.1.0, Krita 4.2.1, Chromium 75, DigiKam 6.0;
- In addition to KDE, the basic composition includes a graphical environment ;
- By default, LibreOffice uses a VCL plugin based on Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, which made it possible to bring the LibreOffice interface to the general style of the KDE Plasma desktop, and also made it possible to use the standard file selection dialog from Plasma 5;
- In addition to Firefox and Chromium, a browser developed by the KDE community has been added to the main composition , which is offered by default;
- SMPlayer multimedia player is included in the package, which uses the MPV backend by default;
- Due to the expiration of MP3 patents, MP3 decoders and encoders are included in the main lineup;
- To manage users, the Kuser interface is used instead of userdrake, and KBackup is offered instead of draksnapshot to create backups;
- To inform the user about the availability of package updates, the Plasma software updates applet is usedβ;
- Added items to the boot menu of the Live environment to select the language and keyboard layout;
- Updated OpenMandriva Welcome app with initial setup screen;
- The OpenMandriva Control Center configurator has replaced DrakX;
- Added om-repo-picker application with an interface for selecting repositories;
- Updated Calamares installer. Added option to configure swap partition. Implemented saving the log of the installation process on a successfully installed system. After the installation is completed, all extra language packs that do not match the selected languages ββare removed. Added verification of installation in the VirtualBox environment - if real hardware is used, then the removal of auxiliary packages for virtualbox is ensured.
- Ports for aarch64 (Raspberry Pi 3 and DragonBoard 410c) and armv7hnl architectures have been prepared. A port for the RISC-V architecture is in development and is not yet ready for release;
- Additional builds specially optimized for AMD processors (Ryzen, ThreadRipper, EPYC) have been formed.
- The basic composition of the Live-image includes the card game KPatience;
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