Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva.
Great to see good ol’ Mandrake still going.
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.
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.
