14 DAY TRIAL // Softpedia was informed by the OpenMandriva team about the release and general availability of the OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 GNU/Linux operating system for personal computers.
OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 is the first maintenance update to the Lx 3 stable series, bringing us all the latest and greatest KDE technologies and Open Source software projects. The biggest change is the fact that the operating system was rebased on the recently released Linux 4.9 kernel, which was injected with BFQ as default CPU scheduler.
"Here comes the Christmas gift from the OpenMandriva Community! We warmly thank our developers, artists, testers and bug reporters, all our support teams as well as all people at large who are working so hard to make this technically advanced and beautifully artworked distribution," reads the announcement.
Now based on the KDE Plasma 5.8.4 LTS desktop environment
Rebased on the KDE Plasma 5.8.4 LTS desktop environment, OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 ships with the KDE Applications 16.08.3 software suite, Qt 5.6.2 framework, and KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5. The Wayland 1.12.0 display server is also available and the OS uses the systemd 232 init system.
Another interesting feature is the availability of an updated graphics stack based on the X.Org Server 1.19.0 display server and Mesa 13.0.2 3D Graphics Library, which, along with Linux kernel 4.9, makes for a powerful system for hardcore Linux gamers using AMD Radeon graphics cards from the Southern Islands (GNC 1.0) family.
Among other changes, we can mention that OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 offers support for Samsung's F2FS file system, which is recommended for SSD (Solid State Drive) disks, and there's also the LLVM/Clang 3.9.1 compiler. Popular applications like SMPlayer, VLC Media Player, digiKam, Krita, and ShowFoto are present as well.
You can download OpenMandriva Lx 3.01 for 64-bit and 32-bit platforms right now from our website. If you're running OpenMandriva Lx 3 on your personal computer, there's no need to download anything as you only have to apply all the available updates from the stable software repositories to keep your installation up to date.