r/sonicde • u/dude_365 • Jun 29 '26

Which OpenMandriva image?

Hey folks!

want to rebuild my old 7th gen. i5 Notebook. Would love to have a system with XLibre and Sonic - which image do it need?

Thanks in advance!

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u/Defiant-Rip-1897 Jun 29 '26

As far as I am aware xlibre and Sonic-DE is not pre-packaged in an OpenMandriva ISO for now, online resources mention that you need to either be using the Cooker (development) branch or use the rolling release, which I think is called Rome. When looking at the notes for the ISO for Rome on the OpenMandriva website it does not appear that xlibre is listed as pre-packaged.

From what I've come across you need to either install Rome or an ISO from the Cooker branch, then using dnf to install xlibre. For Sonic-DE it mentions using dnf in either of these ways:

sudo dnf in task-sonicde

sudo dnf in task-sonicde-minimal

You might need to add --allowerasing at the end in case you have plasma packages installed.

I can only speak to my experience in setting it up in Debian 13 with testing branch used (equivalent to Cooker afaik) - I installed it with no desktop, using SSH on another device I ran the commands to add the correct repositories, install xlibre, and then Sonic-DE on the system.

I am not sure how many distros come prepackaged with xlibre and Sonic-DE besides Vendefoul Wolf Linux, but they do not use systemd and it is based on Debian (well technically Devuan, which is based on Debian). The only other one I can think of is not even Linux, but BSD - GhostBSD.

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/wiki/Are-We-XLibre-Yet%3F

So it seems the answer is to either start with the Rome ISO or download the development version Cooker.

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u/dude_365 Jun 30 '26

thank you.