Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

[Thomas Milne]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From Slashdot:
>
> "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution
> were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of
> Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development
> community -- including the core developers -- has decided to fork the
> project (http://www.mageia.org/). The new Linux distribution, named
> Mageia , will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be
> set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have
> decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still
> welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to
> establishing the new distribution."
>

Wow, well, I give them points for perseverance and tenacity. Mandrake
was my first distro, but I can't help feeling that they've run as far
as they can with their vision.

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