OpenMandriva Rock/ROME for servers is a fully independent and flexible Linux distribution, installable with only the necessary programs for starting a server environment (eg: no GUI, no desktop apps, but you can of course add them later)
It can run on bare metal as well as inside containers and VMs, such as OpenStack, Docker, or OCI
It supports AArch64, x86, and znver1 (specially optimized x86 build for Ryzen/EPYC processors) and scales from a Raspberry Pi all the way to a 160-core Ampere server
It uses rpm and dnf or zypper for package management and is under the control of the community, not any single company that puts its own interests above the needs of its users
It also provides easy-to-install workloads, including a mail server with Webmail, IMAP, SMTP, DKIM support, SPAM and virus filtering, shared calendars, and more
OpenMandriva is “stable” but not “stale” and offers the latest technologies and features in virtualization, programming languages, and server software
Bonus:
OpenMandriva is the continuation of Mandrake Linux/Mandriva Linux, which dates back to 1998, and it is one of the oldest still active Linux distributions
Get Started
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arrow_drop_downROME
Only the bare-metal image for znver1 is currently produced by the build service.
Open the product, then pick the.isoinside it.ROME Server, bare metal, znver1
The x86_64 and AArch64 bare-metal images, and the OCI and OpenStack ones, are not
built at the moment. Ask on the forum if you need
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arrow_drop_downROCKNo server image yet for the stable edition.
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arrow_drop_downCOOKERNo server image yet for the development branch.