Independent Linux distribution
Linux distribution
OpenMandriva Lx
is a general-purpose
Linux distribution
maintained by the OpenMandriva Association for
x86
(32/64-bit) and
ARM
computers.
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It is a community-supported continuation of
Mandriva Linux
, which was active from 1998 (as Mandrake) until 2011. OpenMandriva is offered in a stable release edition, and (since 2023) a
rolling release
edition named Rome.
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It uses the
RPM Package Manager
and uses
KDE Plasma
as its default desktop environment.
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OpenMandriva Lx's development environment is an ABF (Automated Build Farm) which can manage the source code and compile it to binaries. ABF also creates the package repository and ISO images.
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Origins
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OpenMandriva Lx is a community
Linux
distribution. Originally an offering of
Mandriva Linux
, 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.
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The OpenMandriva Association was established on December 12, 2012, under
1901 French law
, to represent the OpenMandriva Community.
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Development and versions
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OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0
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OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0 was released on November 22, 2013, with codename "Oxygen".
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This version was the first release of OpenMandriva Lx, and was the
fork
of
Mandriva Linux
2011.0, which was itself an amalgamation of
ROSA Linux
and
Mandriva Linux
.
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The version includes
KDE
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,
LibreOffice
4.1.3 and the
Linux kernel
3.11.6.
OpenMandriva Lx 2014.x
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OpenMandriva Lx 2014 "Phosphorus" was released on 1 May 2014.
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The release had a very positive review from one of the founders of the initial
Mandrake Linux
distribution,
Gael Duval
.
[22]
OpenMandriva Lx 2014.2, codenamed "The Scion", a bugfix release for 2014.1, was released on 29 June 2015.
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OpenMandriva 3.x
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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.
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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
Clang
compiler instead of GCC.
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A stable and final release of OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 was released in August 2016,
[30]
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followed by 3.01 in December 2016
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and 3.02 in June 2017.
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This was followed by OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, which was released in November 2017.
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After releasing OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, OpenMandriva Lx developers started dropping support of
i586
processor architecture in OpenMandriva Lx 4.0.
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.x
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The development of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 continued on for two years after Lx 3.03 was released.
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The first alpha version of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 was released on September 6, 2018.
[46]
The OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Major Release Alpha 1 was released on December 25, 2018,
[4]
the Beta was released on February 9, 2019
[47]
and the Release Candidate was released on May 12, 2019.
[48]
The OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 stable release arrived in June 2019.
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Among many other changes, this release is notable for switching to the
DNF package manager
for software management,
[51]
including dnfdragora to replace rpmdrake.
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 supports ARM64 (aarch64) and ARM v7 (armv7hnl) architectures.
[44]
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After arriving
RISC-V
board, OpenMandriva will start porting distribution to open source CPUs.
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 was released in February 2022. One of the notable changes in this version is that
PipeWire
became OpenMandriva default sound server replacing
PulseAudio
.
[52]
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 final release was announced on 7 February 2022.
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OpenMandriva Lx 5.x
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Version 5.0 of OpenMandriva Lx was released on 25 November 2023.
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OpenMandriva ROME (the rolling edition)
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In January 2023 the OpenMandriva community released their "ROME" edition, a rolling distribution designed for individual users. This version will always contain the latest versions of available software packages.
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Version history
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Stable branch
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Version
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Code name
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Release date
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End-of-life date
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Kernel version
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Old version, no longer maintained:
2013.0
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Oxygen
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2013-11-22
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2014-05-28
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3.11.8
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Old version, no longer maintained:
2014.0
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Phosphorus
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2014-05-09
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2017-11-21
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3.13.11
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Old version, no longer maintained:
2014.1
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2014-10-26
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3.15.10
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Old version, no longer maintained:
2014.2
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The Scion
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2015-06-29
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3.18.12
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Old version, no longer maintained:
3.0
|
Einsteinium
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2016-08-14
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2019-07-16
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4.6.5
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Old version, no longer maintained:
3.01
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2016-12-25
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4.9.0
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Old version, no longer maintained:
3.02
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2017-06-21
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4.11.3
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Old version, no longer maintained:
3.03
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2017-11-21
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4.13.12
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Old version, no longer maintained:
4.0
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Nitrogen
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2019-06-16
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2020-03-01
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5.1.9
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Old version, no longer maintained:
4.1
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Mercury
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2020-02-01
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2021-03-12
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5.5.5
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Old version, no longer maintained:
4.2
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Argon
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2021-02-12
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2022-03-07
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5.10.14
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Older version, yet still maintained:
4.3
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Dysprosium
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2022-02-07
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1 month after 5.0 release
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5.16.7
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Current stable version:
5.0
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Iodine
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2023-11-25
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1 month after next release
|
6.3.x
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Current stable version:
ROME
|
ROME
|
2023-01-07
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rolling release
|
6.3.x
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Legend:
Old version
Older version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release
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Development versions
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Version
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Release date
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Kernel version
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4.1 RC1
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28 January 2020
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5.5.0
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4.1 Alpha
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10 November 2019
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5.3.9
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4.0 RC
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12 May 2019
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5.1.0
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4.0 Beta
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9 February 2019
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4.20.4
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4.0 Major Release Alpha 1
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25 December 2018
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4.19.8
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4.0 Alpha
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6 September 2018
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4.18
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3.0 RC1
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19 July 2016
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4.6.4
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3.0 Beta 2
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27 June 2016
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4.6.2
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3.0 Beta 1
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6 April 2016
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?
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3.0 Alpha
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24 April 2015
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3.18.11
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3.0 Pre-Alpha
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3 February 2015
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?
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2014.0 RC1
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18 April 2014
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3.13.10
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2014.0 Beta
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24 March 2014
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3.13.6
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2014.0 Alpha 2
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28 February 2014
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3.12.13
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2014.0 Alpha
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31 January 2014
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3.12.8
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Screenshots
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OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0
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OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0
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OpenMandriva Lx 3.0
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OpenMandriva Lx 3.03
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.0
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2
External links
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