Mageia is a
Linux
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-based
operating system
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, distributed as
free and open source software
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. It was
forked from the
Mandriva Linux
Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A.
Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, syste ...
distribution Distribution may refer to:
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.
The
Greek
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term () means enchantment, fascination, glamour, wizardry.
The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.
History
Mageia was created in 2010 as a
fork
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of Mandriva Linux,
by a group of former employees of
Mandriva S.A. and several other members of the Mandriva community.
On September 2, 2010, Edge IT, one of the subsidiaries of Mandriva, was placed under liquidation process by the
Tribunal de commerce
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in Paris;
effective September 17, all assets were liquidated and employees were let go.
The next day, on September 18, 2010, some of these former employees, who were mostly responsible for the development and maintenance of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and several community members announced the creation of Mageia, with the support of many members of the community of developers, users and employees of Mandriva Linux.
Desktop environments
Mageia can use all major desktop environments. As was the case with Mandrake and Mandriva Linux,
KDE
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is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from KDE and
GNOME 64 bit Live DVD editions, 32 bit and 64 bit
Xfce live DVD editions, and any environment in the full DVD installation edition.
It uses
Mageia Control Center.
LXDE
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,
LXQt
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,
Cinammon,
MATE
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** Mate choice, intersexual selection
** Mating
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* Friendship ...
and
Enlightenment are also available.
Application repository
Mageia offers a very large repository of software, such as productivity applications and a large variety of games. It was the first Linux distribution in which
MariaDB
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replaced
Oracle's
MySQL
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.
Development
Mageia was originally planned to be released on a nine-month release cycle, with each release to be supported for 18 months.
Actual practice has been to release a new version when the Mageia development community feels the new release is ready from quality and stability viewpoints.
The latest stable version is Mageia 8, released on 26 February 2021.
Version history
See also
*
OpenMandriva Lx
OpenMandriva Lx is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva Linux. It is maintained by the OpenMandriva Association.
History Origin of the distribution
OpenMandriva Lx is a community Linux distribution. Originally an offering of Mandriva Linux ...
—a Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux
*
PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS, often shortened to PCLOS, is an x86-64 Linux distribution, with KDE Plasma Desktop, MATE and XFCE as its default user interfaces. It is primarily free software operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use. It is con ...
—another Linux distribution now independent, but whose start was based on Mandriva Linux
*
Unity Linux
Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A.
Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, syste ...
—Mandriva-based distribution designed to be a base for end-user distributions
References
External links
*
Official wiki*
Mageia on OpenSourceFeed Gallery
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