Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.
Nice, I love Mageia. I recommend anyone still distrohopping to give it a shot.
Great to see good ol’ Mandrake still going.
Is this to rpm-based distros what Mint is to deb-based distros?
More like what Ubuntu is ( relative to Debian ). They both started a long time ago and have gone their own way.
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.
Thanks.
Never heard of it. What’s its selling point?
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Debian supports their version for two years. Then you need to upgrade.
According to this, All Debian releases since Debian 6 have had LTS support, which extends support for a total of 5 years.
If that’s your argument, Mageia only supports each of the version for two years since release.
I do agree that diversity is good tho.
It’s said they switched from BerkleyDB to SQLite. I wonder what’s the performance implication of it.
