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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