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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. Why not Vulva? Why not Vagina? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why not these or other body parts?

  2. This could be the year of desktop linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they can get that thing to work with a printer and download pictures from a camera, people might consider using it.

  3. Re:Why not Vulva? Why not Vagina? by rubycodez · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gaybuntu LTS (Lesbian and Transgendered Support) already used those

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