[6] OpenMandriva Lx's development environment is an ABF (Automated Build Farm) which can manage the source code and compile it to binaries.

[18][19][20][21] The release had a very positive review from one of the founders of the initial Mandrake Linux distribution, Gaël Duval.

As the operating system was developed all 2015 year, in 2016, the version was released as OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 Beta.

[28] This new release came with significant changes to the core system — among other things, it was the first desktop Linux distribution that was built completely with the Clang compiler instead of GCC.

[44][42] After arriving RISC-V board, OpenMandriva will start porting distribution to open source CPUs.

One of the notable changes in this version is that PipeWire became OpenMandriva default sound server replacing PulseAudio.

[55] In January 2023 the OpenMandriva community released their "ROME" edition, a rolling distribution designed for individual users.