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Thank you.

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