OpenMandriva Lx 2014 Alpha 1 Released

Mandrake, Mandriva and now OpenMandriva Lx, this is the Linux distribution that changed the way we look and work with an operating system based on the eye-candy and feature-rich KDE desktop environment, now known as KDE Plasma and Applications.

New features:

Kernel 3.1.<3-5> with special nrjQL flavour

Added support for SQUASHFS_MULTI_DECOMPRESSOR to allow make use of all CPU while booting from ISO

Systemd 208 with all kind of "safe" updates from upstream

A stable and working out-of-box dracut version close to 035 release

Update initscripts to 9.50 to improve compatibility with systemd

X.org

Support for realmd for easy and out-of-box user authentication in network environment

Support for firewall and resign from using shorewall and drakfirewall

Fresh artwork

Java

Recreated java stack based on Fedora's as this will improve overall java applications health condition

Brand new KDE 4.12.1

Featured more stock KDE apps rather that others

Special feature interest for plasma-mediacenter

Support for ios7 with latest ifuse and libimobiledevice

libdvdcss available in restricted repository

Support MTP protocol through lastest kio-mtp

Gimp 2.8.10 version

Ship scribus 1.5 version

Updated to LibreOffice 4.2

Updated hplip to 3.13.13

Updated cups to 1.7.1 stable release

Updated s-c-p to bugfixing release.

Drakx tools

Fixed Xfdrake's recognition function for graphics

Re-fresh drakx stack with many bug fixes

Installer

Reliable working UEFI support

Installation of boot manager allowed on root partition

and more..

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