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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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Devuan GNU+Linux

Devuan GNU+Linux is a Linux distribution forked from Debian in 2015. The project's primary goal is to provide a variant of Debian without the complexities and dependencies of systemd, an init system and services manager originally developed by Red Hat and later adopted by most other Linux distributions.

Technical Specs Comparison
MageiaDevuan GNU+Linux
IndependentBaseDebian
dnf, urpmiPackage Managerapt / deb
systemdInit SystemOpenRC, runit, SysV
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
9Latest Version6.0.0
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
August 27, 2023Release DateNovember 3, 2025
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64armelARMhf
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64armelARMhf
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Desktops
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