We cannot help you set up a developer environment on a RaspberryPi or any other device. This curriculum only supports using a laptop, desktop or supported Chromebook. We do not recommend installing an OS that is only based on Ubuntu (like Mint, Pop!_OS, ElementaryOS, etc). Our instructions have been tested with MacOS, Ubuntu, and official flavors of Ubuntu.

This prevents you from having to install a fresh version of a major update or upgrade to a major release (and hope all goes well).We can only support the operating systems indicated above. So, instead of doing point upgrades when they are released, you let Discover (the KDE Plasma package manager) keep you up to date. You do this until OpenMandriva releases a new version of the rolling candidate.

Why? Because, instead of installing version LX 4.3 and then upgrading to 4.4, 4.5, and then (later on) doing a major upgrade to 5.0, you simply allow the rolling release to keep itself up-to-date. So, instead of OpenMandriva releasing, say, LX 4.3 (which is the latest version of ROCK - its non-rolling release version) and then releasing something like LX 4.4 and then 4.5, etc., it only offers one major release and update regularly.Īlso: The best Linux distros for beginners A rolling release distribution is updated more frequently, such that it always has not only the latest and greatest software installed but the OS is also updated. Between those, they'll offer point releases, such as. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) offers two major releases a year, the. However, you're probably curious as to what a rolling release distribution is. Hopefully, at this point, you're interested in OpenMandriva. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET What about the rolling release thing? My Brother printer was successfully (and easily) installed.

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