OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC Released With Linux 5.10, Completed AArch64 Port

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC Released With Linux 5.10, Completed AArch64 Port

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 was released last February while now we are closing in on the release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 for that Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenMandriva-Lx-4.2-RC1

[berolinux]

Some more ARM boards that aren't currently listed in the release notes are coming up and will likely be included in the final release -- making pretty good progress on a Rock Pi 4, and from there it should be easy to get to Rock360 and Firefly RK3399.

We're interested in hearing what other ARM devices people would like to see supported. The new os-image-builder https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftw...-image-builder makes it fairly easy to add even devices with weird bootloaders or custom kernels.

[digitalsin]

Does OpenMandriva build everything with clang, or is that some other distribution? If so maybe that would make it a better vs. BSD comparison...

[Baguy]

Some more ARM boards that aren't currently listed in the release notes are coming up and will likely be included in the final release -- making pretty good progress on a Rock Pi 4, and from there it should be easy to get to Rock360 and Firefly RK3399.

We're interested in hearing what other ARM devices people would like to see supported. The new os-image-builder https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftw...-image-builder makes it fairly easy to add even devices with weird bootloaders or custom kernels.

The Pinephone with Plasma Mobile would be absolutely amazing. OpenMandriva's compiler optimizations and LTO magic would do wonders.

Add on F2FS filesystem and Zram for extra performance... And WOWZERS.

[berolinux]

The Pinephone with Plasma Mobile would be absolutely amazing. OpenMandriva's compiler optimizations and LTO magic would do wonders.

Add on F2FS filesystem and Zram for extra performance... And WOWZERS.

The good news is that we already have that (and it's using F2FS too).
Watch the download area, the image should appear shortly. (Right now we're holding it back because there's one more bug we need to fix affecting phone calls).

[Baguy]

The good news is that we already have that (and it's using F2FS too).
Watch the download area, the image should appear shortly. (Right now we're holding it back because there's one more bug we need to fix affecting phone calls).

You mean the issue with outgoing calls? That was just fixed tonight, i tested the patch for bhushanshah.

[xpris]

Does OpenMandriva build everything with clang, or is that some other distribution? If so maybe that would make it a better vs. BSD comparison...

Yes, all packages with a small exception. Where packages simply do not compile with Clang or simply do not work with it and cannot be fixed in a civilized way - then GCC is used instead of Clang for those few packages.

[berolinux]

You mean the issue with outgoing calls? That was just fixed tonight, i tested the patch for bhushanshah.

Different issue. We're not using the phone app from Plasma Mobile (we'd rather use ModemManager than Ofono for the underlying stack - plays together with NetworkManager [which takes care of mobile data] much better); wrote something new instead. But it isn't 100% completed yet.