OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Planned, Linux Kernel 4.12 Comes to OpenMandriva Lx 3 Users

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 exp...