Here we have the Alpha milestone of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release cycle.

Warning: This is an alpha product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment.

Alpha release is primarily for testing and bug squashing. Testing is a critical step during development as all bug fixing will take place during this lapse of time.
Therefore we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our forum or at Github Issues.
You can get in touch real time with our developers at IRC channel #openmandriva-cooker on freenode.

We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 8. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 8. There have been large scale updates of all packages as well as new features implemented to improve what Mageia already offered.

Also: Mageia 8 Enters Development with Linux Kernel 5.7, Improved ARM Support

OMLx ’Rock’ (currently 4.1) is for users who want a stable system.

Please note that Rock system will receive only bug fixes and security updates.

The user wishing for the latest and brightest without having to wait for a new release may want to install ’Rolling’ instead, our new release branch which we are going to officially announce very soon.

By default, only /main repository is enabled in OpenMandriva releases. If you want to find out all the packages available please use Software Repository Selector (om-repo-picker) and enable additional repositories. Guide here.

From time to time we make available Rock snapshots that include fixes for bugs reported after release, and/or important new improvements.

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  Plus the latest Intel speculative execution vulnerability, and Microsoft's troubled history with certificate renewal.

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  Christophe joins Ell to discuss how to get started learning AWS and which materials you will need for that nerve-wracking interview.

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  CoreOS Container Linux prepares to say goodbye, OpenJDK and Kotlin see some big gains, and some long-awaited changes coming soon to Firefox.

• Installing and Reinstalling Linux on the Pinebook Pro

  The process for installing a Linux distribution on the Pinebook Pro is not the same as other Linux laptops, it's a bit more involved. In this video, I show off the process and give you an overview of how this works.

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  In this video, I am going to show an overview of Solus 4.1 and some of the applications pre-installed.