OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling release version of this Linux distribution with roots dating back to the days of Mandriva and a few earlier names called Mandrake Linux (Age of Exposure). This rolling release of OpenMandriva has now reached “gold” candidate status.
The OpenMandriva ROME Gold Candidate is the latest enhancement to this rolling release. OpenMandriva ROME uses the Clang-built Linux 5.18 kernel, KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta and other “very new” KDE components, LibreOffice 7.4.1, LLVM Clang 15.0.1 as the default system compiler, systemd 251, and a ton of other software Package update. OpenMandriva ROME is an interesting rolling-release Linux distribution, in part because it continues to embrace LLVM Clang by default instead of GCC, including building the Linux kernel and other key components with Clang.
OpenMandriva also differentiates itself from other Linux distributions by continuing to offer a Linux distribution optimized for AMD Zen “znver1”. The Znver1 flavor of OpenMandriva rebuilds the entire package archive with “-march=znver1” to optimize binaries for AMD Zen 1 processors and later.
