OpenMandriva community announced availability of OpenMandriva Lx 3 Alpha, the pre release of upcoming stable OpenMandrive Lx 3. OpenMandriva is a fork of Mandriva GNU/Linux.
According to release announcement:
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)
Following are changes made in OpenMandriva Lx 3 after 2014.1 release.
- 3: We’ve moved to a sequential number scheme instead of our year scheme. Our packages will still show 2015.0, however.
- Initial UEFI Support: For newer computers, this provides a better boot process for your computer. As this support is new, and tampers with your boot process, we strongly advise you to check the release notes before proceeding.
- Calamares: A new installer to better help you install OpenMandriva Lx.
- The LXQt desktop environment: A lightweight desktop environment that helps you be productive, with low hardware requirements for those low-end computers.
- sddm: A better, more visually appealing login screen to welcome you into using OpenMandriva Lx.
- Common desktop software, like LibreOffice, Calligra, Krita, Firefox, and Chromium.
- Lots of other components have been updated — including postfix 3.0 if you’re interested in the server side.
- smplayer: A new default multimedia player with mpv as its backend – providing support for numerous extra codecs.
- VLC: A new version supporting the new Qt5 frontend.
- wine has been updated and now includes the wine-staging patchset – among other things, this adds a native Direct3D 9 implementation that makes some Windows games run a lot faster.
- Gamers will be happy to find updated versions of wesnoth, 0ad, warzone2100 and many other popular games. The Steam client is also available to install with our software manager.
- Printing and scanning support has been updated with cups 2.0.2 and updated foomatic drivers and database