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Mageia 9 released (www.mageia.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years 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.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Great to see good ol' Mandrake still going.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I honestly think we need community-managed LTS distros. This is a good start.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Never heard of it. What's its selling point?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years 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.
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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is this to rpm-based distros what Mint is to deb-based distros?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    More like what Ubuntu is ( relative to Debian ). They both started a long time ago and have gone their own way.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years 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.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's said they switched from BerkleyDB to SQLite. I wonder what's the performance implication of it.

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