Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Always had a soft spot for Mageia, as I thought their Admin panel was an improvement compared to SUSE’s.

    But unfortunately I think they are slowly dying. Their forum is a ghost town, and besides their Admin panel, there isn’t anything compelling about Mageia that would make me consider it over other options.

    • veer66@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Because of the Redhat incident, I started to see people asking for community-based distros without a corporate that dominates the community. And, Mageia is one of them. So, I hope it will be more popular.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t Debian already effectively fill that niche? The 18 months of support that Mageia has isn’t very LTS compared to Debian’s 5 years.

      • Animortis@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Debian supports their version for two years. Then you need to upgrade.

        But I just think more options are always good. Only having one just limits us to a mono-culture if we don’t want to go with some corporate solution.

    • veer66@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago
      • KDE is the default. So, for KDE users, Mageia with KDE was tested.
      • Mageia comes with Drake tools for configuring almost everything. IMO *drakes look quite friendly. Since they have been around for 20+ years, they must be stable.
      • Each release will be supported for 18 months, which is longer than Fedora.
  • GenBlob@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Nice, I love Mageia. I recommend anyone still distrohopping to give it a shot.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Even then, I feel that gives the wrong idea. Debian is the community project to Canonical’s commercialized Ubuntu, meanwhile, Mageia has its roots in being a community project brought forth from a commercial product.