OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 adds Snap support and Helium browser

OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 refreshes its rolling-release installation images with Snap support alongside Flatpak and AppImage, while retaining native packages as its preferred format.

Plasma and LXQt editions now use Helium, based on ungoogled-chromium, as their default browser, and the release updates Plasma 6.7.5, GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20.x and LXQt 2.4.0.

It also updates the kernel to 7.2.7, LLVM/Clang to 23.1.2, GCC to 16.2.0 and RPM to 6.1.0.