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Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Anssi55 writes "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided to fork the project. The new Linux distribution, named Mageia, will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to establishing the new distribution."

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  1. And, the names get worse by haruchai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I used to be a big Mandrake fan, even though most of my Linux buddies spurned it - not hardcore enough for them. Interestingly, most of those now either run Mac OS X on their personal machines or Ubuntu - go figure. Fork all you want, but the NAMES? Gah, "Man Driver" was bad enough but now we have "My Gayer". Yah, even if I decide to try this one out, I guarantee it'll be running in a VM on a server hidden away "in a closet".

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  2. Just when I thought their distro name could not by melted · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Just when I thought their distro name could not sound any more gay (I mean, come on, admit it "Man driver" was pretty bad), they turn around and prove me dead wrong.

  3. hmm, my eyes playing tricks on me... by Nyder · · Score: -1, Redundant

    thought it said it was called Mangina.

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