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Mageia 9 released (www.mageia.org)

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Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] Animortis@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I stand corrected!

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