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Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

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Mageia screenshot

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.

Technical Specs Comparison
SolusMageia
IndependentBaseIndependent
eopkg, flatpakPackage Managerdnf, urpmi
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
4.9Latest Version9
BeginnerDifficultyIntermediate
April 18, 2026Release DateAugust 27, 2023
x86_64ARM64ARMv7i686
Architecture
x86_64ARM64ARMv7i686
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceAwesomeCinnamonHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMaker
Desktops
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceAwesomeCinnamonHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMaker