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In addition to the "why does LLVM matter" asked elsewhere, why would I want to use OpenMandriva?

https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/4.0/RC/Release_Notes

but I'm not really sure. I guess if you want a recent kernel, KDE Plasma based distro and you work with LLVM/clang.

I really don't know where it fits with Mageia/PCLinuxOS and other Mandrake descendants.

History IIRC -- Mandrake was RH Linux with KDE; Mandriva was a continuation of that which split; OpenMandriva were devs from that split that took ROSA Linux (still doing KDE4 I think) and then continued their project from that base.

Working with LLVM/clang is pretty much the same on a distorted compiled with clang as one compiled with gcc. Even the C++ ABIs are largely compatible if you use libstdc++ instead of libc++.

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