Mageia

mageia is a fork of mandriva linux formed in september 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular french linux distribution.

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mageia is a fork of mandriva linux formed in september 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular french linux distribution. unlike mandriva, which is a commercial entity, the mageia project is a community project and a nonprofit organisation whose goal is to develop a free linuxbased operating system.

mageia includes several desktop managers including kde, gnome, xfce, mate, and cinnamon.

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