ROSA Fresh R8.1 Linux OS Launches with Kernel 4.9 LTS Patched for Intel Skylake

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The developers of the ROSA GNU/Linux distribution derived from Mandriva announced the general availability of the R8.1 maintenance update for the ROSA Fresh 2014.1 stable series of the operating system.

ROSA Fresh R8.1 is a point release that comes more than six months after the release of the ROSA Fresh R8 series, and brings with it the long-term supported Linux 4.9 kernel fully patched to work out-of-the-box on computer powered by the latest Intel Skylake chipsets.

“This ROSA Fresh R8.1 release is primarily purposed for users who need stable LTS platform on modern hardware,” reads today’s announcement. “This release contains all patches and software updates for Intel Skylake chipset and similar modern chipsets, also kernel 4.9.x is available just right out of the box.”

Includes Mozilla Firefox ESR, Mesa 13.0.2 with OpenGL 4.5 support

Among other interesting change… (read more)

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