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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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Mabox Linux

Mabox Linux is a Manjaro-based rolling-release distribution. It features the Openbox window manager as its default user interface and provides a welcome screen with access to utilities which add additional software to the operating system.

Technical Specs Comparison
MageiaMabox Linux
IndependentBaseArch, Manjaro
dnf, urpmiPackage Managerpacman / pkg
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelRolling Release
9Latest Version25.12
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
August 27, 2023Release DateDecember 16, 2025
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfce
Desktops
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfce