OpenMandriva Lx is an exciting free Desktop Operating System that aims to cater to and interest first time and advanced users alike. It has the breadth and depth of an advanced system but is designed to be simple and straightforward in use.
Raffle prizes sent out – look out for more!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/07/raffle-prizes-sent-out-look-out-for-more
Hey there! Hope you are having nice weather wherever you are (no matter if it is summer or winter for you:)! OpenMandriva had a raffle on Facebook, and now prizes are sent to winners! Want to have some souvenirs as well? Watch out for our new raffles and competitions, more coming very soon!
Enjoy another video of the Scion release!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/07/enjoy-another-video-of-the-scion-release
Yours, OMA P.S. Our grateful thanks go to the author, whose name we could not spot, but will gladly announce, when he contacts us:)
The Scion is ready!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/06/the-scion-is-ready
Curious? Here is our tribute to our founder and the community he and others created. “The Scion” is a release dedicated to Mandrake , our ancestor, not lost but living on here: ▻http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/release/2014.2/OpenMandrivaLx-2014.2.i586.iso/download ▻http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/release/2014.2/OpenMandrivaLx-2014.2.x86_64.iso/download Gaël Duval recently stated: “I read a lot of sad comments on Twitter about it (the loss of Mandriva) and realized that … Continue reading »
Tribute release : your comments creativity !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/06/tribute-release-your-input
Hello, OMA on the wire:) Folks, we are preparing the Mandrake tribute release, and many of you probably would wish to say few words. We would be glad to be your mouthpiece;) Please check out the forums and your thoughts are welcome! ▻https://forums.openmandriva.org/en/discussion/1000/to-all-our-users-openmandriva-tribute-edition ▻https://discourse.openmandriva.org/t/to-all-our-users-openmandriva-tribute-edition/110 ▻http://mib.pianetalinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=4584
New President is here!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/06/new-president-is-here
Hey folks! OpenMandriva members have elected the council (to be able to vote and influence things – apply for membership:), and yesterday council was agreeing on the bureau (president, treasurer, secretary). In full consensus it was agreed that new OpenMandriva President becomes Colin Close (aka Itchka). As a head of QA team he … Continue reading »
Should OpenMandriva keep supporting i586?
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/06/should-openmandriva-keep-supporting-i586
That was the main question we asked OpenMandriva Association (OMA) Members and now want to ask all the community. The OMA members said Yes – Keep supporting it (56%), presenting as the main reasons that we need to keep supporting legacy technology that is still widely used around the world, specially in development countries that … Continue reading »
Look! It’s the OpenMandriva Council Election Results
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/06/look-its-the-openmandriva-council-election-results
The elections for the OpenMandriva Association Council are finished, counted the votes here are the results. To the nine persons that will integrate the OpenMandriva Council for the next two years – Klebedeff, Bero, RJadot, Rugyada, TPG, JCL, Itchka, Fedya and Avokhmin – Welcome!
OpenMandriva Council Elections and i586 survey
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/openmandriva-council-elections-and-i586-survey
Dear OpenMandriva Association Member, During this week the OpenMandriva Association (OMA) started the election of it’s council. It’s very important for all members to participate in the elections. OMA also started to listen the members on the i586 architecture usage. This survey will be shortly opened to all community in association to a poll on … Continue reading »
Tribute to Mandrake
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/tribute-to-mandrake
Hi there Good news everyone, a new version of OpenMandriva is ready to see the world in a few days, 2014.2 will soon be making it’s way to you. Listen out for details, features – and torrents! OpenMandriva‘s history is well known. It was born at the tail of 2012 with the help of the … Continue reading »
Have your say! New tutorials arrival coming soon
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/have-your-say-new-tutorials-arrival-coming-soon
Hey everybody Please pay attention to this poll. If you are a user, a contributor, or if you “just yet watch” us for now, we would love to hear, which aspects of our development process (and other processes may be) you want to know in better details? We prepare video tutorials and want to cover … Continue reading »
Raffle results, prizes arriving!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/raffle-results-prizes-arriving
Hey guys and gals! Some time ago we ran a crowdfunding campaign to support our infrastructure, and along with perks for contributions, we announced 3 prizes for sharing information about the campaign on Facebook. Here come the winners! Congratulations! Clément Clarisse Mario Karl Moles Stephen Lemos Winners, please contact us in private message in Facebook or through join@openmandriva.org to … Continue reading »
Missing some good read? Have a look here
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/missing-some-good-read-have-a-look-here
Great guys from Linux voice magazine have recently published another good report about FOSDEM, featuring OpenMandriva’s stand news as well. In case you missed the story – enjoy now!
Mixing the Ingredients Together – Announcing #OpenMandriva_Lx 3 Alpha
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/04/mixing-the-ingredients-together-announcing-openmandriva-lx-3-alph
The OpenMandriva Community has been working hard, and after a long period of development and fixes, we’re happy to announce the alpha release of OpenMandriva Lx 3 (Einsteinium)! If you’re eager to jump in and try some of the new features from this release, you can download OpenMandriva Lx 3 Alpha at the following links: … Continue reading »
OpenMandriva website error ? Please no worries !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/openmandriva-website-error-no-worries
Hey folks Small technical announcement, the renewal of our website certificate is delayed 2-3 days due to technical payment issue on the provider side. Everything is in order, but during 2-3 days visiting our website with https will display an error (that can be simply ignored). No worries!:) Yours, OMA team
Last campaign days ! Contribute now !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/last-campaign-days-contribute-now
Hey folks! You were waiting to the last days to contribute to our funding campaign? These days have come, it is the chance to support infrastructure and popularization of your distro – and enjoy the perks we offer! Every contribution, no matter the size, counts! Thank you for your support! ▻https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-easy-and-secure-advanced-software-for-all/x/9281410#home
Here comes OpenMandriva image for Raspberry Pi2!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/here-comes-openmandriva-image-for-raspberry-pi2
Hi folks! Good and interesting news for you! Our genius Fedya made a simple omv image for Raspberry Pi2. Img file contains minimal openmandriva cooker system for armv7, without any graphics, works fine. just do sudo dd if=pi2-omv.img of=/dev/[your_device] bs=1M and edit /etc/fstab to make root partition writable. ▻https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/Raspberry_Pi2 Enjoy!
96boards goes public
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/96boards-goes-public
Hey folks! OpenMandriva is glad to announce news from our friends from Linaro Connect, who have announced the 96boards project to the public! ▻http://96boards.org This means 2 pieces of good news — first, it means there’s finally some cheap Aarch64 hardware available to the public, and 2nd, OpenMandriva gets one for our usage! This will … Continue reading »
OpenMandriva to have a new installer for the 2015 Release
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/openmandriva-to-have-a-new-installer-for-the-2015-release
We are pleased to announce that we are supporting and contributing to the Calamares project ▻http://calamares.github.io Calamares is a distribution independent Linux installer which features a modernistic graphical design and a modular approach to installation tasks. It will be the default installer for the 2015 release. Have a look, enjoy, comment, join!
“How to trace a cat to the tree and keep it up there” by Chwido ..oops. No. “OMA’s switch to clang” by Bero: interested? got questions? we got answers!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/how-to-trace-a-cat-to-the-tree-and-keep-it-up-there-by-chwido-oop
Enjoy the presentation of our release manager, brightest developer and great mascot-keeper Bero at FOSDEM, “OpenMandriva switching to clang”!
Pre-Alpha OMA Lx3 is here – hot and fresh!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/pre-alpha-oma-lx3-is-here-hot-and-fresh
Why pre-Alpha? Because we are eager to deliver you the freshest and hottest, and with your help this new release can start shining brighter even sooner! Have fun, report bugs, enjoy! You can download pre-Alpha here ▻http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/alpha/2015.0 Please check out the release notes here ▻https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Release_3/Release_Notes So what is in? Desktop The oma-welcome oma-welcome, or Welcome to OpenMandriva … Continue reading »
Revision number for OpenMandriva Lx
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/01/revision-number-for-openmandriva-lx
The next release of OpenMandriva Lx will return to Mandrake Linux roots <▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux#Table_of_versions> and use a revision number instead of year number. This decision has been discussed democratically amongst members. The change will affect only the brand (the public releases name). The suggestion first came during the Prague meeting. It was decided to postpone the … Continue reading »
Invest into the free world – participate in our campaign!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/01/invest-into-the-free-world-participate-in-our-campaign
Hello-hello! And here it comes, OpenMandriva starts crowdfunding campaign to maintain infrastructure and you are most welcome to support your distro! Please visit our campaign page on Indiegogo and we thank you in advance for your contribution! (a list of our perks you can see on the campaign page;) ▻http://igg.me/p/free-easy-and-secure-advanced-software-for-all/x/9281410 We count on your help … Continue reading »
Happy New Year!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/happy-new-year
Happy New Year to all of our friends! May 2015 be successful, prosperous, bring you luck and happiness! Happy New Year!! Always yours OpenMandriva Team
2015.0 Alpha delayed
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/2015-0-alpha-delayed
Hey folks! We know you expected Alpha today to have some fun after the Christmas fuzz is over, but we have to share that it is delayed till January 15th. Reasons? Hardware taking an early holiday and KDE Plasma 5 simply isn’t ready yet (and making a 4.x based release for testing doesn’t make that … Continue reading »
Wandering OpenMandriva, part 4 : France !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/wandering-openmandriva-part-4-france
A little late, but the November issue of the French Linux Magazine “Linux Identity Kit” included a DVD with OpenMandriva Lx and a 24 pages guide. We proudly read that OpenMandriva has a “seductive desktop environment”. Thank you!