OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you

OpenMamba is an independent Italian distribution which uses Fedora's packaging tools and offers a choice of KDE Plasma or LXQt. The independent desktop Linux distro has been quietly slithering along since about 2009. Like the snake whose name it shares, it's very green-hued, but it doesn't bite. In recent years, it's a one man …

[Steve Graham]

Festa della Repubblica

I can read Italian. I checked out the support forums, and the posts typically had just a couple of participants. Liam's point about the distro probably being niche seems to be accurate.

[ICL1900-G3]

Re: Festa della Repubblica

Quite so...it is a big hurdle going off-piste like this, if you will forgive the mixed metaphor. If you Google 'how do I do xyz in Debian/Fedora/whatever' you will most likely get a reply, this... probably not so much. A distro for the adventurous, methinks, not that there's anything wrong with that.

[JessicaRabbit]

It's quite impressive really and it's not exactly a new distro judging from the events page on OpenMamba's site, the earliest of which is from back in 2009. Hats off to him.

[Mockup1974]

Reminds me a bit of PCLinuxOS. Independent distro, rolling release, (mostly) a one-man project, uses RPM packages, focus on KDE Plasma. The main difference seems to be that PCLinuxOS doesn't use systemd and OpenMamba does. But to be honest, I wouldn't use a rolling release distro that doesn't have an automatic snapshot system with Grub integration like OpenSuse does with Snapper. I want to have that peace of mind.

[Liam Proven]

PCLinuxOS is a fork of Mandriva, just as Mandriva was a fork of Red Hat Linux with KDE.

It's diverged a lot but it's not a complete original project. When the other Mandriva derivatives went for URPMI as their dependency resolution tool, PCLinuxOS went with APT4RPM instead, for instance.