The OpenMandriva team today announced the release and general availability of OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 as a new snapshot in the OpenMandriva Lx “ROME” rolling-release branch targeted at bleeding-edge users.
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” is one of the very first Linux distros to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.10 kernel series, built with Clang, and features the KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment by default, while the other two spins offer users the latest GNOME 46.3 and LXQt 2.0 desktop environments.
The KDE Plasma 6 flagship edition is shipped with the latest KDE Gear 24.05.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.4 software suite and it uses the X11 session by default. The devs also provide a dedicated Wayland version for the KDE Plasma desktop for those who prefer Wayland instead of X11, but they consider it experimental, for now.
“Also provided is a ROME Plasma 6 Wayland ISO, however we believe Wayland still not to be mature enough to replace X11 by default for most users,” said the devs. “Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox almost always will boot to a black screen and will not work. It works fine on most hardware and in QEmu with KVM.”
Among other noteworthy changes, OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” adds support for the AMD ROCm technology for supported GPUs, adds the latest LibreOffice Suite 24.2.5 office suite 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 devs also added RPM’s new declarative build feature that provides implementations for some of the most common build systems, including CMake, Meson, GNU Autotools, and Python (Setuptools/PIP). This helps them simplify the build/install instructions for many packages.
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” is now available for download as KDE Plasma, GNOME, and LXQt editions from the official website. As mentioned before, OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling-release distro targeted at bleeding-edge users, so if you’re looking for something more stable, you should download OpenMandriva 5.0 Rock instead.
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