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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months 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.