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This is a follow-up to my post yesterday, about my first-hand experience with OpenMandriva Alpha on hardware, based on my previous experience with Fedora, and other rpm-distros. The initial problem I reported using their default Falkon browser, can simply be avoided by just using the ancient version of Firefox in their repo, Version 79. Today, I decided to try their fancier version using the heavily modified kernel called "znver1," for Ryzen processors. I installed it on a blank SSD and treated it like it was my only operating system. It had numerous problems. I can not criticize it though because it is beyond the scope of my Linux skills. Nevertheless, I decided to go even deeper and write over it a whole new fresh install using their Cooker iso for znver1, thinking, maybe I would get a newer version. ( Cooker is their very unstable branch ) The main thing I discovered doing that, is that their isos in Cooker are built with clang, and the others are apparently not. I am in their Cooker znver1 right now typing this but having to use their Firefox 79. One issue I am having, and please email me privately about it, is that Discover wants to update 785 pages ( which would put it on par with Rawhide ), and it is missing python3.8dist(six), and will not update a single package. And dnf thinks the system is up-to-date. That sounds like something that could happen in Fedora and maybe one of you know a workaround. Their Cooker is not as stable as Fedora's Rawhide. I will most likely write over my first install of their 4.2 Alpha with another distro, and keep this Cooker znver1 to see if I can learn anything. I have to assume with their tiny team, that this znver1 thing is going to have limited packages that are compatible. Right ? In its present form before the missing updates, the version numbers of packages are only 0.0.0.1 ahead of the ones in 4.2 Alpha. But the expected updates will be the latest available. I now have about 10 hours of user experience on hardware with OpenMandriva's alpha and Cooker version. Please email me privately for further info, as I can only imagine there are only a few people interested in other rpm-distros. One funny thing is their Rosa Image-writer didn't work in the Alpha version, so I had to use the Fedora Image Writer on Flathub, to create the two znver1 installs, but Rosa Image-writer did work on the Cooker version. Cheers, David Locklear
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