Downloads

This page shows all the available formats that can be downloaded in order to install and use the openmamba operating system.

Desktop and notebook:

openmamba livecd rolling

A ISO image of openmamba for live execution and installation providing a KDE Plasma based desktop environment and a basic set of preinstalled programs.

openmamba rolling livecd for x86_64 (english) 
File size: 2,7GB; Date: 2026-08-25; Md5: a51981ef7a14eeed263f8bb4d1869188
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openmamba rolling livecd for x86_64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,7GB; Date: 2026-08-25; Md5: 9ea681ee72194f8bae430630207e9113
   Features
  • live desktop system for Personal Computers (64 bit processor with AMD64 or compatible architecture)
  • graphical desktop environment based on KDE Plasma
  • live O.S. with fixed disk installation interface
   Requirements
A 64 bit Personal Computer (PC) compatible with the following minimum features:
  • AMD64 or compatible 64 bit processor
  • 4 GB of RAM (8 GB are recommended)
  • BIOS or (U)EFI with USB boot support
Additional requirements for system installation:
  • a fixed disk with 20 GB of free space or more
   Preparation
The ISO image file can be used in different ways:
  • traditionally ISO image file was intended to be burnt on a CD/DVD medium using an appropriate tool and performing the operation by writing the file as "disk image file";
  • the ISO image file can also be used to start openmamba on a virtualization system (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare);
  • the image can be physically copied into a USB storage using a specific tool or the "dd" command:
    dd if=openmamba-livecd-snapshot-*.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=32M
  • the ISO image file can also be installed and prepared to boot from a USB storage drive providing storage data persistence by using the "Install openmamba on a USB device" tool which is available from an openmamba desktop.

openmamba livedvd rolling

A ISO image of openmamba for live execution and installation providing a KDE Plasma based desktop environment and a full set of preinstalled programs.

openmamba rolling livedvd for x86_64 (multilanguage) 
File size: 3,5GB; Date: 2026-08-26; Md5: a121dd30e2d1343d05b8f125001cf1eb
   Features
  • live desktop system for Personal Computers (64 bit intel compatibles processors)
  • graphical desktop environment based on KDE Plasma
  • live O.S. with fixed disk installation interface
   Requirements
A 64 bit Personal Computer (PC) compatible with the following minimum features:
  • AMD64 or compatible 64 bit processor
  • 4 GB of RAM (8 GB are recommended)
  • BIOS or (U)EFI with USB boot support
Additional requirements for system installation:
  • a fixed disk with 40 GB of free space or more
   Preparation
The ISO image file can be used in different ways:
  • traditionally ISO image file was intended to be burnt on a DVD medium using an appropriate tool and performing the operation by writing the file as "disk image file";
  • the ISO image file can also be used to start openmamba on a virtualization system (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare);
  • the image can be physically copied into a USB storage using a specific tool or the "dd" command:
    dd if=openmamba-livedvd-snapshot-*.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=32M
  • the ISO image file can also be installed and prepared to boot from a USB storage drive providing storage data persistence by using the "Install openmamba on a USB device" tool which is available from an openmamba desktop.

openmamba diskimg-livecd rolling

A disk image of openmamba live to be copied on a USB pendrive or any other device supported at boot by your PC.

openmamba rolling diskimg-livecd for x86_64 (english) 
File size: 2,7GB; Date: 2026-09-04; Md5: 926288ee9f7cefeed4562705392ab016
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openmamba rolling diskimg-livecd for x86_64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,7GB; Date: 2026-09-04; Md5: a49f1d9e26c8405236027ad5ecfd367c
   Features
  • live desktop system for Personal Computers (64 bit processor with AMD64 or compatible architecture)
  • graphical desktop environment based on KDE Plasma
  • live O.S. with fixed disk installation interface
   Requirements
A 64 bit Personal Computer (PC) compatible with the following minimum features:
  • AMD64 or compatible 64 bit processor
  • 4 GB of RAM (8 GB are recommended)
  • BIOS or (U)EFI with USB boot support
Additional requirements for system installation:
  • a fixed disk with 20 GB of free space or more
   Preparation
Using any operating system providing the 'dd' run the following command:
  • gunzip -c openmamba-diskimg-livecd-*.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdx bs=32M
  • after writing it is possible to use a disk partitioning software (e.g. gparted) to grow the disk partition size to fit the whole disk space;
  • the system provides support for persistent data storing and an utility for installing the system on your hard disk;
  • Boot on PCs through BIOS and (U)EFI;
  • It is possible to use any other openmamba distribution variants (livedvd, livecd-light, livecd-gnome) by copying the corresponding .iso file and changing the openmamba-live.iso to point to it.

Server and low-memory PCs:

openmamba livecd-light rolling

A ISO image of openmamba for live execution and installation providing a light desktop environment based on LXQt and a basic set of preinstalled programs.

openmamba rolling livecd-light for x86_64 (english) 
File size: 2,2GB; Date: 2026-08-27; Md5: db79303be1d503cdfcd3794b4ae6d9e4
openmamba rolling livecd-light for i586 (english) 
File size: 2,0GB; Date: 2026-08-27; Md5: 9add794e24edae0435a4651009654052
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openmamba rolling livecd-light for x86_64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,2GB; Date: 2026-08-27; Md5: 6df7e12491a72ce3eb2614cf2b6628c8
openmamba rolling livecd-light for i586 (italiano) 
File size: 2,0GB; Date: 2026-08-27; Md5: b50f6d7029b59c92d7c2cba76b805c44
   Features
  • live desktop system for Personal Computers (32 or 64 bit Intel compatible processors)
  • desktop environment based on LXQt
  • live O.S. with fixed disk installation interface
   Requirements
A 32 or 64 bit Personal Computer (PC) compatible with the following minimum features:
  • processor: Intel Pentium III or higher or AMD K6/Duron/Athlon or higher
  • 2 GB of RAM (4 GB are recommended)
  • BIOS or (U)EFI with USB boot support
Additional requirements for system installation:
  • a fixed disk with 15 GB of free space or more
   Preparation
The ISO image file can be used in different ways:
  • Traditionally ISO image file was intented to be burnt on a DVD medium using an appropriate tool and performing the operation by writing the file as "disk image file"
  • The ISO image file can also be used to start openmamba on a virtualization system (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare)
  • The ISO image file can altro be installed and prepared to boot from a USB storage drive providing storage data persistance by using the "Install openmamba on a USB device" tool which is available from an openmamba desktop.

Single-board devices:

openmamba diskimg-raspberrypi rolling

A disk image of openmamba for Raspberry Pi devices with a desktop environment based on LXQt.

openmamba rolling diskimg-raspberrypi for aarch64 (english) 
File size: 2,5GB; Date: 2026-09-05; Md5: 5cde886a3a8b31b8fce760cee3bd1c0b
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openmamba rolling diskimg-raspberrypi for aarch64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,5GB; Date: 2026-09-05; Md5: d5f1b88aab77d7047cb2c506418f5abf
   Features
  • live desktop system which can be immediately used without installation
  • LXQt desktop environment with multimedia support for audio and video
  • full networking support with the ability to perform updates and install additional packages
   Requirements
  • a Raspberry Pi device (recommended: version 4 with 4+ GB of RAM)
  • a 16 GB or bigger SD memory card
   Preparation
You may use any operating system providing the dd program to copy the image to a SD or microSD memory card:
  • insert the memory card and identify the corresponding device then replace /dev/sdx with your real device path in the following command
  • run the following command from a console window:
    gunzip -c openmamba-diskimg-raspberrypi-*.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdx bs=32M
It is possible to use other applications which support the preparation of microSD for Raspberry Pi but in this case you may need to uncompress the archive in gzip format first.

openmamba diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma rolling

A disk image of openmamba for Raspberry Pi devices with KDE Plasma based desktop environment.

openmamba rolling diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma for aarch64 (english) 
File size: 2,3GB; Date: 2026-09-07; Md5: 7c434c5e0e2da77fd004b715341cbc9c
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openmamba rolling diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma for aarch64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,3GB; Date: 2026-09-07; Md5: 955894dcec641da7609cf5a7407a2d22
   Features
  • live desktop system which can be immediately used without installation
  • KDE Plasma desktop environment with multimedia support for audio and video
  • full networking support with the ability to perform updates and install additional packages
   Requirements
  • a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 device (recommended: 4+ GB of RAM)
  • a 16 GB or bigger SD memory card (32+ GB recommended)
   Preparation
You may use any operating system providing the dd program to copy the image to a SD or microSD memory card:
  • insert the memory card and identify the corresponding device then replace /dev/sdx with your real device path in the following command
  • run the following command from a console window:
    zstd -c openmamba-diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma-*.img.zst | dd of=/dev/sdx bs=32M
It is possible to use other applications which support the preparation of microSD for Raspberry Pi but in this case you may need to uncompress the archive in gzip format first.

Root filesystem archives:

These archives can be used by advanced users as a base to implement customized installations, for instance for embedded targets, as well as to create Docker base images.

openmamba rootfs rolling

A release of openmamba containing a root filesystem with KDE Plasma desktop environment for installation on different storage media and execution through different boot loaders and kernels.
It is intended for advanced users to make custom installations.

openmamba rolling rootfs for x86_64 (english) 
File size: 2,1GB; Date: 2026-09-02; Md5: c2cc92d163beb856154575fa400d969e
openmamba rolling rootfs for aarch64 (english) 
File size: 1,9GB; Date: 2026-09-02; Md5: 14b4e25953ebe79246e71b268580f2fb
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openmamba rolling rootfs for x86_64 (italiano) 
File size: 2,1GB; Date: 2026-09-02; Md5: 785606c6d5a81e8570db9ca98cff5451
openmamba rolling rootfs for aarch64 (italiano) 
File size: 1,9GB; Date: 2026-09-02; Md5: d11e2b3602eb4785f7c046313d6931c9
   Features
  • live desktop system which can be immediately used without installation
  • KDE Plasma desktop environment with multimedia support for audio and video
  • full networking support with the ability to perform updates and install additional packages
   Requirements
The x86_64 version works on Personal Computer (PC) compatibles that meet the following minimum requirements:
  • Intel/AMD processor with 64 bit architecture support
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • a storage device (USB storage, SD, microSD, ..) providing at least 16 GB of space

The aarch64 version can work on platforms which meet the following minimum requirements:

  • recent Linux kernel with support for the hardware platform
  • the capability (dependent on the device technology) to boot the kernel and modify its boot options to set for example: root=/dev/sda1 or root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 or root=/dev/mmclbk1p1
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • a storage device supported by the Linux kernel and the device (SD, microSD, USB storage, ..) providing at least 16 GB of space
   Preparation

openmamba rootfs-light rolling

A light release of openmamba based on the LXQt desktop containing a root filesystem for installation on different storage media and execution through different boot loaders and kernels.
It is intended for advanced users to make custom installations.

openmamba rolling rootfs-light for x86_64 (english) 
File size: 1,7GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: e5bb29d8766e8e1f0e0b49f90f4e0c15
openmamba rolling rootfs-light for aarch64 (english) 
File size: 1,6GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: 21efdbe92eac301219898aacccdf95d0
openmamba rolling rootfs-light for i586 (english) 
File size: 1,6GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: 5c912104b14a08beec57dd1916392a65
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openmamba rolling rootfs-light for x86_64 (italiano) 
File size: 1,7GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: 96bbef57ad8e8f4afede7bcc8d605688
openmamba rolling rootfs-light for aarch64 (italiano) 
File size: 1,6GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: 26dc885ce4c3c40168d063392dd27563
openmamba rolling rootfs-light for i586 (italiano) 
File size: 1,6GB; Date: 2026-09-03; Md5: dcbbfeb555fea0e5a7da718fdb8025ec
   Features
  • live desktop system which can be immediately used without installation
  • LXQt light desktop environment with multimedia support for audio and video
  • full networking support with the ability to perform updates and install additional packages
   Requirements
The x86 and x86_64 versions work on Personal Computer (PC) compatibles that meet the following minimum requirements:
  • processor: Intel Pentium III or higher or AMD K6/Duron/Athlon or higher
  • 1 GB of RAM
  • a storage device (USB storage, SD, microSD, ..) providing 8GB of space

The arm and aarch64 versions can work on platforms which meet the following minimum requirements:

  • recent Linux kernel compatibile with the hardware platform
  • the capability (dependent on the device tecnology) to boot the kernel and modify its boot options to set for example: root=/dev/sda1 or root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 or root=/dev/mmclbk1p1
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • a storage device supported by the Linux kernel and the device (SD, microSD, USB storage, ..) providing at least 4 GB
   Preparation

openmamba rootfs-base rolling

A minimal release of openmamba containing a root filesystem for chroot installation of custom packages.
It is intended for advanced users to make custom installations.

openmamba rolling rootfs-base for x86_64 (multilanguage) 
File size: 115MB; Date: 2026-09-06; Md5: b4351922fa3a7602a331d3a024d9bc4b
openmamba rolling rootfs-base for aarch64 (multilanguage) 
File size: 108MB; Date: 2026-09-06; Md5: 477027e37f1d654ec4a5c5dbe46d3e35
openmamba rolling rootfs-base for i586 (multilanguage) 
File size: 117MB; Date: 2026-09-06; Md5: cf136cf182f61803d8f4efd983822675
   Features
  • minimal root filesystem providing base packages for installing packages via chroot
   Requirements
  • 32 or 64 bit Intel or ARM compatibile processor
  • 128 MB of RAM
  • a storage device providing at least 512 MB of space
   Preparation

Images for Docker:

On openmamba page at Docker Hub you may find the official Docker images based on the rootfs-base archive for the x86_64, aarch64 and i586 architectures.
openmamba at Docker Hub
The following command will download the image, create a container and run a shell:

docker run -it openmamba/openmamba /bin/bash