OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock The Spring Release

Happy Easter holidays! we made fruitful use of this time to provide you a nice surprise.

The independent, community controlled distribution OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 fixed point release (as opposed to the rolling release branch), is out right now.

Main features:

KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (X11 and Wayland available) - Community spins featuring latest desktop environments LXQt 2.2.0, (…)
https://www.openmandriva.org/100

Thank you Anonymous Donors

Dear Anonymous Donors,

On behalf of the entire OpenMandriva team, we want to thank you a lot for your generous support.

With your donation you contribute to keep the light on for the OpenMandriva project, allowing us to continue our mission of creating a secure, powerful still user-friendly Linux distribution.

Your contribution helps us with development, infrastructure maintenance, hardware supply, (…)
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OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released

Here is ROME 24.12 up-to-date installation media

Main features, and changes since ROME 24.07

KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (x11) - Spins featuring latest desktop environments GNOME, LXQt Qt6, Plasma 5 and COSMIC 1.0 alpha

Plasma6 Wayland ISO provided as well Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox may boot to a black screen and will not work; VirtualBox users may need to set VMSVGA (...)
https://www.openmandriva.org/107

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released

Here is ROME 24.07, the rolling release model up-to-date install images.

It basically carries all the features already included in the Release Candidate with the packages updated to the latest versions.

Let’s make a summary of the main peculiarities.

End-user interest:

Switch to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default

Spins featuring LXQt (2.0.0 Qt6) and GNOME (46.3)

Also provided is a (...)
https://www.openmandriva.org/106

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Candidate

We are excited to announce the unscheduled Release Candidate for OpenMandriva rolling release model, ROME 24.07. This release brings significant updates and improvements.

One of the most notable changes is the switch to Plasma 6 as the default desktop environment. This major release of the KDE Plasma desktop offers a range of new features and enhancements.

Our release engineers have (...)
https://www.openmandriva.org/105

Discovered a backdoor in xz. Security update for OpenMandriva users

As it might affect cooker and rolling users, please upgrade as soon as possible.

A backdoor in liblzma, part of the xz compressor has been discovered. The exact workings of the backdoor are not yet known; it is, however, clear that it targets OpenSSH servers and hijacks their authentication.

While the cooker and rolling branches of OpenMandriva Lx do include xz (...)
https://www.openmandriva.org/104

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 released

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, the long-awaited release of the independent, community controlled distribution’s fixed point release branch (as opposed to its rolling release branch), has been released. This is expected to be the last major release featuring the Plasma 5 desktop.

In the 1.5 years since the previous fixed point release, OMLx 4.3, many things have changed. Among others, the new release is based on (...)
https://www.openmandriva.org/101

Interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/12gnz1u/i_built_a_widget_to_adjust_the_brightness_of/