An installation of openmamba milestone2 (stable release) automatically provides access to some archives of RPM packages called repositories or channels from which you can install software packages:

• milestone2 channel is the main archive for software packages that constitute the current stable release of the openmamba distribution;
• milestone2-games channel contains apart games which take a lot of storage space;
• milestone2-updates contains the security and functionality updates that have been made available after the stable release of the operating system.

The packages in these repositories can be installed using the package management tool which comes integrated with your openmamba desktop environment or using the command line commands pkcon and smart tools.

Use of the stable distribution is recommended to all users who use the system in production environment and expect the available functionalities not to change for long periods.

The additional channels contain more up-to-date software packages which are considered stable but are waiting to be fully tested before being made available to all users.

In order to get updates from an additional channel you need to enable it in the Software sources settings dialog of the openmamba packages management tool. A channel can be as well enabled by command line by issuing the following command:

pkcon repo-enable channel_name

• milestone2-kernel channel contains the most recent Linux kernel version with its components;
• milestone2-kde4 channel contains the most recent version of the KDE4 desktop environment;
• milestone2-xorg channel contains the most recent version of the X.org graphical server and its components;
• milestone2-java channel contains recent updates for Java support.

If you want to take advantage from the latest system functionalities, with support for more recent hardware and new software releases, it is possible to upgrade to the development system by configuring openmamba to use the devel and devel-games repositories. This operation is not reversible and is only suggested to beta testers or experienced users because it may cause problem to your system even with loss of functionality compared to the stable distribution. For more information see the development page.


SERVICE REPOSITORIES (FOR DISTRIBUTION INTERNAL JOBS)

• milestone2-makedist is an auxiliary channel used by our makedist tool to build distribution media.