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Mageia

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, Mageia is a community project and a non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.

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AerynOS

AerynOS is an independently-developed, rolling-release Linux distribution designed for general desktop use. Its main features include the GNOME desktop, a custom package manager called "moss", atomic updates with rollback options, a package build system called "boulder", and smart boot management with complex EFI configuration through a utility called "blsforme".

Technical Specs Comparison
MageiaAerynOS
IndependentBaseIndependent
dnf, urpmiPackage Managermoss / flatpak, moss
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelRolling Release
9Latest Version2026.01
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
August 27, 2023Release DateJanuary 31, 2026
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceCOSMICKDE Plasma
Desktops
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceCOSMICKDE Plasma