OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Available for Installation
The latest release of OpenMandriva has arrived with a new kernel, an updated Plasma desktop, and a server edition.
Good news, OpenMandriva fans, version 6.0 is now available for download and installation, and there's plenty to be excited about.
For starters, this is the first time the developers have released a server edition into the mix. This new edition includes a minimal set of applications, a pre-configured user, support for cloud-init, and more. This version is available for the following architectures: x86_64 (64-bit), AArch64 (ARM64) with UEFI support, and AMD Zen (EPYC, Threadripper, Ryzen).
As for the desktop releases, you'll find kernel 6.14, Plasma 6.3, KDE Gear 25.04, and spins for Gnome 48.1, LXQt 2.2, Xfce 4.20, and COSMIC 1.0 alpha. On the Plasma side of things, you'll find both X11 and Wayland available.
If you plan on running OpenMandriva as a VirtualBox guest, the developers strongly suggest using X11 because there are known issues with Wayland on a VirtualBox-emulated GPU.
You'll also find LibreOffice Suite 25.2.3 with Qt 6 and Plasma 6 integration, Chromium Browser 135.0.7049.84 patched with Google spyware disabled and JPEG-XL support re-enabled, Firefox 137.0.2 patched with spyware disabled, Falkon 25.04.0, Gimp 3.0.2, and VirtualBox 7.1.8. As for development tools, there's LLVM/Clang 19.1.7, GCC 14.2.1, glibc 2.41, systemd 257.5, Mesa 25.0.4, and Java 24.
Read more about the latest edition in the official release notes and download an ISO from the official OpenMandriva site.
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