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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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Synex

Synex is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch, developed with the official Debian Live Build tool. It offers four separate desktop options with GNOME, LXDE, KDE Plasma and Xfce, all of which are composed of a rather frugal set of applications in its default state, without any development tools or offices suites.

Technical Specs Comparison
MageiaSynex
IndependentBaseDebian (Stable), Debian (Testing)
dnf, urpmiPackage Managerapt / deb, flatpak
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
9Latest Version13
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
August 27, 2023Release DateDecember 21, 2025
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceKDE Plasma
Desktops
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceKDE Plasma