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Reader supplied reviews for openmamba GNU/Linux
Average rating
5.3 from 10 review(s)
Version: 20260409
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-13
Country: Italy
Votes: 0
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Really good distribution, it works great. The only issue I can see is that all the development is done by one person. The maintainer seems to be a very welcoming and helpful person, but he doesn't have access to many different machines and hardware such as older nvidia graphics cards.
I have experienced some minor issues: one issue that persists to today forces me to enter the kwallet password at every login, not doing so prevents my system from connecting to the wifi as it fails to use the saved wifi password.
I recommend this distribution. More stable than fedora kde edition in my experience.
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Version: 20260105
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-01-05
Votes: 2
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It is a little tricky to review Open Mamba, as some users are reporting having problems. In my experience, I have been using it as my main distribution on a modern Acer laptop, Intel i7, Intel irisx Graphics, 24GB RAM, Intel wireless card, 1TB WD HD on and off for around 18 months now.
On installation, I did have a problem that wireless would not fully connect, but after installation of the operating system, the wireless was recognised, and after putting in the password, I logged out logged back in and after entering the information again all was well, and has been since. I have to enter my KWallet Manager password every time I turn on or reboot the system. Not a great hardship.
Flatpak support installed, and updates and software all work as they should for me.
As an independent Distro, and taking into account all this, I do not stray for long from Open Mamba, despite the attraction of others.
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Version: 20250420
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-05-12
Votes: 5
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Reviewed the openmamba rolling livecd-light (x86_64, English). File: 2.6GB, 2025-03-19, MD5: bcc37bb8b527586327767f139efaa72b.
This 'rolling' release suggests up-to-date software in a 'light' package. Tested its LxQT desktop in VirtualBox. The responsiveness was genuinely striking; the system felt exceptionally quick and agile, even virtualized. Applications launched swiftly, and navigation was smooth. This impressive virtual performance makes me keen to experience openmamba on physical hardware. It appears to be a promising, efficient choice, and the initial test was very encouraging for real-world use.
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Version: 20250108
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 3
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I run the plasma livecd and installed it.
I am greeted immediately by an error message that stays on the screen for an unsettling amount of time: dracut-pre-pivot [2848]: fatal configuration error, aborting.
As mentioned before me, the distribution runs unexpectedly slow. The screen flickers badly. Plasma shell keeps crashing. Updates are very slow. Windows and dialogs do not look sharp.
I do like systemd, I do not find that an issue.
It lacks podman and some other packages I want to use.
If these issues are sorted it could be a decent distribution, but for now it has too many issues. Please fix these issues.
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Version: 20230822
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-04
Votes: 0
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Give it 9 out of 10. Loads from disc, no way to boot this operating system from USB memory card device stick, screen turns black, then goes back to windows boot menu. Tested this on older computer machinery, it only seems to work on legacy hardware. Great if' you have older hardware that can not load windows anymore or refuses to load windows at all properly with all the drivers, xp, 2000, me, nt, 982nd edition. *Needs* to boot from burnt dvd-r though. Some odd reason just gives black screen of death on USB memory card device stick. Modern computer hardware dose not use fat-16-bridges no more, if' that what this project is going for it limited to legacy hardware only. That dose not mean it is bad though, still useful in one way or another which can be good thing as there is not many linux projects left making operating systems for older technologies no more, which is quite sad to be frank. Many computer users out there that refuse to modernize to more new technologies, even gamers, and collectors of relic technologies.
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Version: 20230105
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-06
Votes: 1
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I have only tested this distro in VirtualBox.
Screen flickers like crazy, both during install and when using the desktop.
It's slow to boot.
System updates are very slow.
Some windows and dialogs are out of focus.
Community seems to be dead.
It's an independent distro so should be given credit for that.
Unfortunately it uses systemd.
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Version: 20211012
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-09
Votes: 6
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It's RPM (As windows with .exe) exactable installer files, so obviously this is a red hat, italian edition.
Did not need much help, kde desktop, saw it says use apt in command, bash, shell, that is the similar commands as ubuntu or debian.
sudo su [pass] apt-get install (software)
etc, etc,
synaptic runs on this os, as long as that's there, have no problems otherwise.
It is a independant respin of redhat and opensuse or geckoOS.
Feels a lot as (mandriva,mandrake) frances magia operating system, or rosa os, to open-mandriva.
Just with a more italian feel rather than a french or russian one.
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Version: 20210605
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-06-06
Votes: 0
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Live Iso do not work on my pc; just like OpenSuse 15.3
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Version: 20200717
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-21
Votes: 1
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This distro do not own any documentation .....how to deal with commands on terminal ......no support......you loose your time !!
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Version: 20200717
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 3
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Tried it on two different machines. My CPU is running on full speed without any reason. I like independent distros, but this unusable.
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Latest Reviews
Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20260409
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-13
Votes: 0
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Really good distribution, it works great. The only issue I can see is that all the development is done by one person. The maintainer seems to be a very welcoming and helpful person, but he doesn't have access to many different machines and hardware such as older nvidia graphics cards.
I have experienced some minor issues: one issue that persists to today forces me to enter the kwallet password at every login, not doing so prevents my system from connecting to the wifi as it fails to use the saved wifi password.
I recommend this distribution. More stable than fedora kde edition in my experience.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20260105
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-01-05
Votes: 2
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It is a little tricky to review Open Mamba, as some users are reporting having problems. In my experience, I have been using it as my main distribution on a modern Acer laptop, Intel i7, Intel irisx Graphics, 24GB RAM, Intel wireless card, 1TB WD HD on and off for around 18 months now.
On installation, I did have a problem that wireless would not fully connect, but after installation of the operating system, the wireless was recognised, and after putting in the password, I logged out logged back in and after entering the information again all was well, and has been since. I have to enter my KWallet Manager password every time I turn on or reboot the system. Not a great hardship.
Flatpak support installed, and updates and software all work as they should for me.
As an independent Distro, and taking into account all this, I do not stray for long from Open Mamba, despite the attraction of others.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20250420
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-05-12
Votes: 5
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Reviewed the openmamba rolling livecd-light (x86_64, English). File: 2.6GB, 2025-03-19, MD5: bcc37bb8b527586327767f139efaa72b.
This 'rolling' release suggests up-to-date software in a 'light' package. Tested its LxQT desktop in VirtualBox. The responsiveness was genuinely striking; the system felt exceptionally quick and agile, even virtualized. Applications launched swiftly, and navigation was smooth. This impressive virtual performance makes me keen to experience openmamba on physical hardware. It appears to be a promising, efficient choice, and the initial test was very encouraging for real-world use.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20250108
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 3
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I run the plasma livecd and installed it.
I am greeted immediately by an error message that stays on the screen for an unsettling amount of time: dracut-pre-pivot [2848]: fatal configuration error, aborting.
As mentioned before me, the distribution runs unexpectedly slow. The screen flickers badly. Plasma shell keeps crashing. Updates are very slow. Windows and dialogs do not look sharp.
I do like systemd, I do not find that an issue.
It lacks podman and some other packages I want to use.
If these issues are sorted it could be a decent distribution, but for now it has too many issues. Please fix these issues.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20230822
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-04
Votes: 0
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Give it 9 out of 10. Loads from disc, no way to boot this operating system from USB memory card device stick, screen turns black, then goes back to windows boot menu. Tested this on older computer machinery, it only seems to work on legacy hardware. Great if' you have older hardware that can not load windows anymore or refuses to load windows at all properly with all the drivers, xp, 2000, me, nt, 982nd edition. *Needs* to boot from burnt dvd-r though. Some odd reason just gives black screen of death on USB memory card device stick. Modern computer hardware dose not use fat-16-bridges no more, if' that what this project is going for it limited to legacy hardware only. That dose not mean it is bad though, still useful in one way or another which can be good thing as there is not many linux projects left making operating systems for older technologies no more, which is quite sad to be frank. Many computer users out there that refuse to modernize to more new technologies, even gamers, and collectors of relic technologies.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20230105
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-06
Votes: 1
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I have only tested this distro in VirtualBox.
Screen flickers like crazy, both during install and when using the desktop.
It's slow to boot.
System updates are very slow.
Some windows and dialogs are out of focus.
Community seems to be dead.
It's an independent distro so should be given credit for that.
Unfortunately it uses systemd.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20211012
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-09
Votes: 6
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It's RPM (As windows with .exe) exactable installer files, so obviously this is a red hat, italian edition.
Did not need much help, kde desktop, saw it says use apt in command, bash, shell, that is the similar commands as ubuntu or debian.
sudo su [pass] apt-get install (software)
etc, etc,
synaptic runs on this os, as long as that's there, have no problems otherwise.
It is a independant respin of redhat and opensuse or geckoOS.
Feels a lot as (mandriva,mandrake) frances magia operating system, or rosa os, to open-mandriva.
Just with a more italian feel rather than a french or russian one.
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20210605
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-06-06
Votes: 0
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Live Iso do not work on my pc; just like OpenSuse 15.3
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20200717
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-21
Votes: 1
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This distro do not own any documentation .....how to deal with commands on terminal ......no support......you loose your time !!
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Project: openmamba GNU/Linux
Version: 20200717
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 3
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Tried it on two different machines. My CPU is running on full speed without any reason. I like independent distros, but this unusable.
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