OpenMandriva Lx 6 "Vanadium", the sixth release of stable edition of OpenMandriva, released last month on 20 April celebrating its inclusion of Plasma 6 and Flatpak. This stable edition is also known as ROCK as a company of its another edition of rolling release known as ROME. It brings a lot of changes since the last major release in four years. We listed things about the release in brief and we hope you will enjoy it. Happy downloading!
(OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 "Vanadium" screenshot from OpenMandriva Wiki)
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What's new in Rock 6.0
Among the changes to this latest stable release, codenamed Vanadium, are new versions of software mentioned below. Full changelog can be read at Release Notes (see References).
- LibreOffice Suite 25.2.3 with Qt 6 and Plasma 6 integration
- Falkon 25.04.0
- Chromium 135.0.7049.84 patched with Google spyware disabled and JPEG-XL support re-enabled
- Firefox 137.0.2 patched with spyware disabled
- QMPlay2 25.01.19
- Telegram Desktop 5.13.1
- Krita 5.2.9
- Gimp 3.0.2
- Digikam 8.6.0
- SMPlayer 24.5.0
- VLC 3.0.21
- Virtualbox 7.1.8
- VokoscreenNG 4.5.0
- OBS Studio 31.0.3
Editions and Architectures
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 "Vanadium" is available as several editions and architectures.
Editions:
- Plasma
- Plasma Slim
- GNOME
- LXQt
- Server
Architectures:
- amd64 for Intel and AMD PC 64-bit.
- znver1 for AMD Ryzen.
- aarch64 for computers like Raspberry Pi 4 and 400, Rock Pi, Ampere Server.
Download OpenMandriva Lx 6.0
Sourceforge.net (main downloads)
OpenMandriva.org (mirror downloads)
Checksums
Below is a list of SHA256SUM of official OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 ISO image files. You should verify your downloaded ISO image copy of OpenMandriva by comparing its checksum with official checksum below before using it. You can learn how by reading this tutorial.
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263a0ff32e569a9c3223ecd14896626ce6b2d4f02b5e61094df029a096240371 extra-spins/openmandriva-6.0-cosmic.x86_64.iso
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Torrents
Official OpenMandriva torrents are located at the Internet Archive. However, as per the date we write this article, the torrents for Lx 6.0 are still not available there. We hope soon they will made available https://archive.org/details/@oma_infra.
About OpenMandriva
OpenMandriva Lx (often shortened OMA) is a French based GNU/Linux distribution developed by the community as continuation to world class operating system called Mandriva. The developer team claimed that OpenMandriva is unique and independent, that is, it's the first distro built using LLVM (Clang) technology instead of GNU GCC and it isn't based upon any other existing distribution. It has two main choices, Rock, the stable edition for users who prefer their computing not changed too quickly, and ROME, the rolling release edition for users who like their software always latest everyday. Lastly, OpenMandriva Project welcomes everyone to get involved in the development together by many ways including donation in which you can find at their official website www.openmandriva.org.
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References
Announcement 6.0 (2025)
Announcement 5.0 (2023)
Announcement 4.0 (2019)
Distrowatch: OpenMandriva Lx 6.0
Wikipedia: OpenMandriva Lx
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