OpenMandriva Lx is a Linux distribution forked from

Mandriva Linux Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A. Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, system ...

. It is maintained by the OpenMandriva Association.

History

Origin of the distribution

OpenMandriva Lx is a community

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distribution. Originally an offering of

, the OpenMandriva product was created in May, 2012, when Mandriva S.A. avoided bankruptcy by abandoning the development of its consumer product to the Mandriva community. The first stable version (OpenMandriva Lx 2013 "Oxygen") was released in late 2013.

OpenMandriva Association

The OpenMandriva Association was established on December 12, 2012 under 1901 French law, to represent the OpenMandriva Community. It manages free software projects including OpenMandriva Lx.

OpenMandriva Lx development environment

OpenMandriva Lx's development environment is an ABF (Automated Build Farm) which can manage the source codes, compile it to binaries. Also ABF creates the package repository and ISO images.

Versions

In late 2013, the first version of OpenMandriva Lx was released. It was based on Mandriva Linux 2011, which was itself an amalgamation of

ROSA Linux ROSA Linux is a Linux operating system distribution, developed by the Russian company 'LLC NTC IT ROSA'. It is available in three different editions: ROSA Desktop Fresh, ROSA Enterprise Desktop, and ROSA Enterprise Linux Server, with the latter ...

and Mandriva SA. OpenMandriva Lx 2014 "Phosphorus" was released on 1 May 2014. The release had a very positive review from one of the founders of the initial

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distribution,

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. OpenMandriva Lx 2014.2, codenamed "The Scion", a bugfix release for 2014.1, was released on 29 June 2015. During 2015, OpenMandriva released an alpha version of OpenMandriva Lx 2015. As the operating system was developed all 2015 year, in 2016, the version was released as OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 Beta. This new release came with significant changes to the core system — among other things, it was the first desktop Linux distribution that was built completely with the

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compiler instead of GCC. A stable and final release of OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 was released in August 2016,DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 679, 19 September 2016
/ref> followed by 3.01 in December 2016 and 3.02 in June 2017.A proud scion of name: OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 release - OpenMandriva
/ref> This was followed by OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, which was released in November 2017.Distribution Release: OpenMandriva Lx 3.03 (DistroWatch.com News)
/ref> After releasing OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, OpenMandriva Lx developers started dropping support of i586 processor architecture in OpenMandriva Lx 4.0. The development of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 continued on for two years after Lx 3.03 was released.OpenMandriva upcoming release plans for Lx 3.03 and Lx 4.0 — OpenMandriva
/ref>4.0 — Wiki en OpenMandriva
/ref>OpenMandriva 4.0 Being Prepared With zSTD-Enabled Linux 4.16, Clang Pre-7.0, GCC 8 - Phoronix
/ref>OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Planned, Linux Kernel 4.12 Comes to OpenMandriva Lx 3 Users
Softpedia NewsSummer news - OpenMandriva
/ref>Development news Week 2018-28 - OpenMandriva
/ref>OpenMandriva Lx 4 Launching Soon with KDE Plasma 5.13, GCC 8.1, and Linux 4.18
Softpedia NewsOpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Is Approaching With DNF/RPM4, KDE Plasma 5.13, Linux 4.17~4.18 - Phoronix
/ref> The OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 stable release arrived in June 2019. Among many other changes, this release is notable for switching to the DNF package manager for software management, including

Mageia Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open source software. It was forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution. The Greek term () means enchantment, fascination, glamour, wizardry. The first release of the software ...

's dnfdragora to replace rpmdrake. OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 was released in February 2022. One of the notable changes in this version is that PipeWire became

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's default sound server replacing

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Version history

Development versions

OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0

OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0 was released on November 22, 2013 with codename "Oxygen". This version was the first release of OpenMandriva Lx, and was the

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2011.0. The version includes

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4.11.2. Menu in OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0 was SimpleWelcome, and also this version included media player ROSA Media Player 1.6, Mozilla Firefox 25.0,

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4.1.3 and the Linux kernel 3.11.6.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 will support ARM64 (aarch64) and ARM v7 (armv7hnl) architectures. After arriving

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board, OpenMandriva will start porting distribution to open source CPUs. The first alpha version of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 was released on September 6, 2018. The OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Major Release Alpha 1 was released on December 25, 2018, the Beta was released on February 9, 2019 and the Release Candidate was released on May 12, 2019. The OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release was announced on 16 June 2019. In this version, OpenMandriva Association announced that OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 have switched to RPMv4 and dnf has replaced

urpmi urpmi is a package management tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the RPM Package Manager in the role of a smart package manager. It uses repositories and ...

. Due to that,

rpmdrake rpmdrake is a graphical interface to urpmi, which permits the installation of software packages. It is provided as part of Mandriva Linux, Mageia and ROSA for package installation. The application is written in gtk2-perl, and allows: * upda ...

was replaced by Dnfdragora.

Screenshots

File:OpenMandriva_LX_2013.png, OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0 File:OpenMandriva_Lx_2014_Phosphorus.png, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0 File:Small screenshot of OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 Einsteinium.jpg, OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 File:OpenMandriva_Lx_3.03.jpg, OpenMandriva Lx 3.03

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OpenMandriva Gallery

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 screenshots