Several user-requested tools are now available in the base repository: tmux 3.6a — the popular terminal multiplexer, now available in openmamba; manage multiple terminal sessions in a single window and keep sessions alive after disconnecting ripgrep 15.1.0 — an extremely…
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What’s new in openmamba — February/March 2026
Starting this month, openmamba is making use of artificial intelligence tools to support some maintenance activities: monitoring upstream updates, creating new packages, drafting communications such as this announcement, and other infrastructure-related tasks. The entire process remains coordinated and supervised by…
News: openmamba ready to ship KDE Plasma 6 “mega-release”
After a period of packaging and testing openmamba is ready to ship the KDE Plasma 6 mega release upgrade to all users. The next snapshots of livecd and livedvd live and installation media, which will be available within a couple…
New: Git-based source repository and other news
openmamba provides a new web service on the src.openmamba.org site where the recipes (.spec files), patches and additional files representing the over 5500 source packages with which the distribution in format is created and maintained are easily consultable. tracks. The…
News: support for 64-bit ARM architecture (and Raspberry Pi 4)
openmamba is now available for the aarch64 (aka arm64) architecture, which is added to the x86_64, i586 e arm (armel) supported architectures. This makes openmamba potentially compatible with present and future devices based on 64-bit ARM architecture that have a standard GNU/Linux…
openmamba “light” with LXQt desktop
The “light” version of openmamba is renewed by adopting the LXQt desktop environment which replaces the previous LXDE environment. Meanwhile, the main release continues to provide users with an always up-to-date KDE Plasma desktop environment. In the Downloads section all…
openmamba: subsystem updated to RPM 4 and DNF
After a period of development and testing, the openmamba software packages management and update subsystem has been updated and rebased on version 4 of the RPM manger package using DNF (which replaces YUM) for managing system updates. With this important…
openmamba returns to have a single maintainer
From this year the maintenance and development of openmamba have resumed a pace equal if not higher than in previous years. Working with continuity I have producted a substantial modernization of the package base of the rolling version of the…
#RESTART OPENMAMBA!
The openmamba project, after the previous announcement, is back up and under development. Thanks to the interest of many users it was possible to restart reviewing its organization and development processes. Now, under the expert guide of the team leader…
*** openmamba END OF LIFE announcement ***
The openmamba project officially closes after ten years of life. Website, services and repositories will continue to be available for an indeterminate period. The maintainer and founder of the project wishes to thank all the people that in the years have…
