Mageia
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Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open-source software. It was forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution. The name comes from the Greek ( , ). The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.
Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open-source software. It was forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution. The name comes from the Greek ( , ). The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.
History
Mageia was created in 2010 as a fork 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 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.
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 replaced Oracle's MySQL.
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 10, released on 28 June 2026.
Version history
See also
OpenMandriva Lx—a Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux PCLinuxOS—another Linux distribution now independent, but whose start was based on Mandriva Linux Unity Linux—Mandriva-based distribution designed to be a base for end-user distributions
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Official wiki
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