2024-07-26 07:00:34
The OpenMandriva team Notice the release and general availability of OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 as a new take on the rolling release branch of OpenMandriva Lx “ROME” aimed at edge users.
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” is one of the first Linux distributions to run on the latest and greatest kernel series Linux 6.10 built with Clang, and features the desktop environment Plasma KDE 6.1 by default, and the other two types provide users with the latest desktop environments GNOME 46.3 y LXQt 2.0.
KDE Plasma 6 flagship edition ships with the latest software package KDE Gear 24.05.2 y KDE frameworks 6.4 and uses the X11 session by default. The developers also provide a dedicated version of Wayland for the Plasma KDE desktop for those who prefer Wayland over X11, but consider it experimental, for some time now.
“ROME Plasma 6 Wayland ISO is also provided, however, we believe Wayland is not yet mature enough to replace X11 by default for most users,” the developers said. “Please note that the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox will almost always boot to a black screen and not work. It works well on most hardware and on QEmu with KVM.”
Among other notable changes, OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” adds support for AMD ROCm technology for compatible GPUs, adds the latest office suite Install LibreOffice 24.2.5 with Qt 6 and KDE Plasma 6 integration, and updates the toolchain to LLVM/Clang 18.1 .8, GCC 14.1.0, Glibc 2.39, systemd 255.7 and Mesa 24.1.4.
For developers and packagers, the developers also added the new RPM declared build feature that provides implementations for some of the most popular build systems, including CMake, Meson, GNU Autotools, and Python (Setuptools / PIP). This helps them simplify build/install instructions for many packages.
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” is now available for download as KDE Plasma, GNOME and LXQt editions from official website . As mentioned above, OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling release distribution aimed at edge users, so if you’re looking for something more stable, you should download OpenMandriva 5.0 Rock.
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