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The first Mageia alpha is available

The first Mageia alpha is available

Posted Feb 15, 2011 15:59 UTC (Tue) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
Parent article: The first Mageia alpha is available

Care to explain what Magaia is supposed to be?
The link doesn't help me neither. It talks about downloading ISO images etc.
Probably a new Linux distribution?
(Note: I'm not a native English speaker, so I might have missed the obvious.)


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The first Mageia alpha is available

Posted Feb 15, 2011 16:08 UTC (Tue) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

It's a fork of the existing Mandriva distribution my some former Mandriva folks unhappy at the activities of its sponsoring company. The original announcement email is here.

The first Mageia alpha is available

Posted Feb 15, 2011 16:08 UTC (Tue) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]

Mageia is a fork of the Mandriva Linux distribution.

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