Hello guys and gals!
Freezing? 
We have some warm news for you!
Exactly according to our release plan we offer you today OpenMandriva Lx 2014 Alpha!
Fresh and fun, it is ready for bughunting and reports.
You can download it here:
- x86_64
- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openmandriva/alpha/2014.0/OpenMandrivaLx-2014.0-alpha1.x86_64.iso
- i586
- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openmandriva/alpha/2014.0/OpenMandrivaLx-2014.0-alpha1.i586.iso
Bugzilla:
https://issues.openmandriva.org/
What is in, what to discover?
Kernel and hardware support
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
ARM
armv7hl + RazorQt
Boot process
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
Updated x11-server to 1.15.x and x.org stack stable version
Updated Mesa to 10.x. to provide best graphics experience with free drivers
Networking
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
We know you are hungry for it! – will come with Beta! (for grub2, plymouth and KDE environment)
Java
Recreated java stack based on Fedora’s as this will improve overall java applications health condition
KDE
Brand new KDE 4.12.1
Featured more stock KDE apps rather that others
Special feature interest for plasma-mediacenter
Multimedia
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
Office
Ship scribus 1.5 version
Updated to LibreOffice 4.2
Printing
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
End user orientation
“HOWTO” explaining how submit bugs and provide useable information
Add on KDE desktop activators to OMV site, google services (maps, translate etc.)
To the release notes added a list of major features that are not yet provided (eg for 2013: UEFI, installation of grub2 on root partition, …)
Server
Switch from MySQL to MariaDB
Added Galera support
Better SOGo integration
Enjoy