OpenMandriva Lx ROME (Rolling) Technical Preview
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OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 ROME Technical Preview Released
The next release of OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, ROME, is an excellent choice for long-time Linux fans and newbies. So that’s what is new!
If you’re looking for another rolling-release Linux distribution to try, one with roots in the legendary Mandrake Linux, look no further.
OpenMandriva Lx is a KDE-focused community-driven Linux distribution inspired by and forked from Mandriva Linux that includes plenty of open-source software. The distro was created by the OpenMandriva Association and aimed at both experienced and first-time Linux users.
The latest stable release of the distribution, OpenMandriva Lx 4.3, was released earlier this year on February 7th.
Here is the Technical Preview of the upcoming OpenMandriva Lx ROME (Rolling), and after a few time also the 5.0 ’Rock’ snapshot Installing Rolling is pretty much the same as installing Rock.
There is an auto updater tool in ABF (OpenMandriva Automated Build Farm) which has been kept turned off for longer that we anticipated so Rolling has not been getting many upgrades recently and has not really been ’rolling’. This is because developers have been making some big changes to tool-chain/system packages in the Cooker branch (where the upgrades come from) that would make it unsafe and unwise at this time. After Rolling official released we will turn auto updater on again and we will have Rolling back to actually ’rolling’. We believe now Cooker has reached the quality level we want to get in order to release a reliable system.
