Going by memory, so it may not be EXACT, but they removed the LibreOffice repo package and told their users to use the Flatpak version. Since Red Hat maintains so many versions of LibreOffice for so many versions of Fedora and Red Hat, it was a huge amount of man hours to maintain the repo packages. Granted, they will still have to maintain the ones for LTS support, but they will eventually go away as well.
Doesn’t seem comparable to OM since only two versions are maintained, Rome and Rock. I don’t include Cooker because that’s meant for development.
Sir, I am not trying to argue with you, so here is the link I found. By the way, there is plenty of arguing going on at the link as well.
Same at this link.
https://www.linux.org/threads/redhat-and-fedora-will-stop-shipping-libreoffice.45345/
These are from a year and a half ago, so this is not something new.
Then one could say the same for any package request, but that doesn’t give the project more maintainers. 
We’re not going to drop the native packages because of the reasons I’ve listed before, plus another very important one: We have some patches in the packages that improve usability and integration (e.g. we’ve had Plasma 6 integration in LO months before the flatpak builds).
We may tell people to use flatpaks for stuff that is insanely weird to package (like anything that uses electron) and for which we don’t have customizations anyway - but we won’t go the route of dropping native packages for stuff that is relevant for most users and not an extreme pain to maintain. We’ll leave that to the lazy distros with thousands of people and millions of $$$ and still no ability to get anything done.
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Hey, Linux People!
I have also seen the video from Lunduke, but I’ve been eyeballing this OM also in the past.
It was the nudge one needs to try it out and find out.
I must say I’ve been using it since one week or so, it looks very good so far: responsive, effective, no nonsense, things can be done the easy way as long as you’re not lazy and can read :).
The fact that it is not on the band wagon of propagandists and keeps it’s nose clean of political stuff is the fudge on the cake. I am from “Eastern Europe” and we had this woke-progressive toad shoved down our throats for decades, we remember the mandatory political indoctrination all too well, at least my generation and the ones before… It is so refreshing to be able to breathe fresh air, no heavy smell of bull…
Congrats to this distro, hat tip to the Association, nice to find you guys!
Also a big thank you to the developers and other contributors!
Best wishes and God bless!
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Sorry if I came off as argumentative. I’m just trying to understand your want of dropping the repo and offering thoughts on it. I read some of the forums you linked and people are clearly riled up. Hard to believe Red Hat can’t maintain LibreOffice with the money they have.
My only concern was a lack of maintainers, but @bero does not seem to have a problem with packaging it, so it’s no big deal.
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I also came here from Lunduke.
I tried OpenMandriva Rome/Gnome in virtualbox, however, after installation I couldn’t get it to run.
If there are any special VB settings needed, I would be willing to try again, as I wish Mandriva every success.
Currently, I hop between Debian and Fedora. To use Mandiva as a daily driver, I would need “dotnet”, as that is what I do. I’m not sure of the status of dotnet on Mandriva?
All the best. I will be watching with interest.
dotnet is in the works, but we are focused on the 6.0 release. We don’t need something else to test or exclude right now.
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Don’t want to use this platform to go off topic and emote, but just want to say that I’m from UK and I agree with your words.
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And a little notice to you: Official Naming Policy | OpenMandriva wiki
Thanks 
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Seems like Workstation makes this a little easier.
I had already tried Rome with no success, so I rolled over to Rock… 
since that’s really what I wanted anyway.
It depends on the host machine hardware and maybe host operating system. I use these:
The graphic controller used and not using 3d seem to be key settings. I believe OMLx isos are set to require 2GB memory to install. Also I am running in VBox OMLx systems on OMLx Cooker or ROME operating systems.
That said I use OMLx systems in VBox practically daily for testing.
If your issue persists please post a new thread or bug report dedicated to that issue.
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OpenMandriva ROME Errata | OpenMandriva wiki
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I am unable to boot this one.
When trying to mount it in Windows to verify it, I get an error that says the file is corrupt.
I can open it in 7-zip, and it only shows 0.boot.img and 1.root.imp as files.
Am I going down the wrong path?
Just FYI: On the topic of supported virtual machine hypervisors, I’ve installed and tested Rome successfully on both my Intel and AMD Proxmox nodes. And unlike Mageia, the Spice driver works perfectly in OMAlx.
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The way to install it is to write it to a USB device with dd or the likes and then boot.
In VMs, I test it using
qemu-system-x86_64 -bios /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd -accel kvm -m 4G -smp 4 -nic user -audiodev pipewire,id=pw -device intel-hda -device hda-output,audiodev=pw -usbdevice mouse -drive file=OpenMandriva-whatever.img
You can NOT use something like Ventoy, because it’s NOT an iso9660 or udf filesystem. It’s a disk image of a bootable system.
Just piling on here to say that I decided to use this distro after watching some of Lunduke’s video’s. I’ve been using Debian or Arch for nearly the last 20 years and all the politics and position pushing has just gotten to be too much. Yes I’m conservative and yes I’m very vocal about my politics… with the people who would appreciate talking politics and in a forum where debate would be comfortable.
The forums, policies, and ‘movements’ of an Open Source community is not that place or forum. I, like many others, are here to find bugs, introduce new features, and improve the Open Source operating system experience to the point where everyone will enjoy it.
Keep up the good work everyone and lets make this the top distro available!
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