14 DAY TRIAL // OpenMandriva reveals today the company's plans for the next minor and major updates of their Mandriva-based OpenMandriva Lx GNU/Linux operating system.
The company says in a press announcement that they are currently working on two fronts, a short-term one that focuses on the next point release of the current stable OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 series of the distribution, specifically OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, which should enter Beta on August 1, 2017, and a medium-term one that centers on the next major version, namely OpenMandriva Lx 4.0.
"We are working on two fronts, the short time project, as in having the latest and brightest components from KDE, a new Qt, the latest kernel with built in zstd compression/decompression algorithm for ISO for what it concerns the current stable 3.xx branch," says OpenMandriva. "The medium time project, based on the cooker experimental environment, which will lead us to OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 major release."
Here's what's coming to OpenMandriva Lx 3.03
If you're using OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 stable series on your personal computer, you'll be happy to learn that the next planned update, OpenMandriva Lx 3.03, will incorporate some of the latest KDE and Qt technologies, including the newest KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment, KDE Applications 17.04.2 or higher, KDE Frameworks 5.36 or later, Qt 5.9.1 or newer, as well as the recently released Linux 4.12 kernel.
Support for the zstd (Zstandard) a fast, real-time and lossless compression algorithm is also coming in the next OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 update, implemented by default in the ISO images, with which they will be compressed. It's also possible that OpenMandriva Lx 3.03 will include the upcoming LibreOffice 5.4.0 office suite, but the company makes no promise at all. An RC (Release Candidate) version should be available on September 1, and the final release launches September 30, 2017.