Mageia
A community fork of Mandriva with a friendly installer and its own Control Center. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Mageia.Org
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2011
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.mageia.org
- Family
- Independent
- Based on
- Independent (a Mandriva fork)
- Package manager
- urpmi, DNF
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- About every 2 years
- Support lifetime
- Until a few months after the next release
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- KDE Plasma (choice in the installer)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 4 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, i686, aarch64, armv7hl