Release of the distribution kit OpenMandriva Lx 4.1

Took place distribution release OpenMandriva Lx 4.1. 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 offered A 2.6 GB (x86_64) live build "znver1" optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors), as well as variants of these builds based on the Clang compiled kernel.

В new version:

• In addition to the regular Linux kernel compiled in GCC (package "kernel-release"), a variant of the kernel compiled in Clang ("kernel-release-clang") has been added. Clang is already used as the default compiler in OpenMandriva, but until now the kernel had to be compiled in GCC;
• The Clang compiler used to build packages has been updated to the LLVM 9.0 branch. To build all the components of the distribution, you can do with only Clang;
• Zypper has been suggested as an alternative package manager;
• New versions of the Linux kernel 5.5, Glibc 2.30, systemd 244, Java 13, Qt 5.14.1, KDE Frameworks 5.66, KDE Plasma 5.17.5, KDE Applications 19.12.1, LibreOffice 6.4.0, Falkon 3.1.0, Krita 4.2.8 are involved. 19.12.1, Kdenlive 19.10.2, SMPlayer 7.0.0, DigiKam XNUMX;
• Firefox 72.0.2 is also available in the repositories,
  Chromium browser 79.0.3945.130,
  Virtualbox 6.1.2
  Thunderbird 68.4.1,
  Gimp 2.10.14;

• Added Desktop Presets (om-feeling-like) configurator, offering a set of presets that allow you to make the KDE Plasma desktop look like other environments (for example, make it look like Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows 10, macOS, etc.);
  

• Added support for compressing packets using the zstd algorithm instead of the previously used "xz". Rebuilding packages in the zstd format resulted in a slight increase in the size of the packages, but a significant acceleration of unpacking;
• Added support for AV1 video codec to Ffmpeg package using dav1d and nvdec/nvenc for NVIDIA GPUs. Chromium includes VAAPI support for hardware video decoding in h264 and vp9 formats;
• Instead of firewall-config, to simplify the firewall configuration, it is proposed NX Firewall;
• The repository has expanded the number of desktop environments available for installation;
• A new Update Configuration utility (om-update-config) has been added to configure automatic update delivery.
  

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