Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.
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.
Great to see good ol’ Mandrake still going.
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.
Nice, I love Mageia. I recommend anyone still distrohopping to give it a shot.
I honestly think we need community-managed LTS distros. This is a good start.
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.
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.
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.
I stand corrected!
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.
Is this to rpm-based distros what Mint is to deb-based distros?
No. Mandriva and eventually Mageia are their own projects that use RPM.
Thanks.
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.
It’s said they switched from BerkleyDB to SQLite. I wonder what’s the performance implication of it.
