Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

[Paul King]

A slightly more detailed story appears on Mageia's own site: http://mageia.org/

On 18 Sep 2010 at 14:57, Michael Lauzon 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."
> 
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> Sincerely,
> 
> Michael Lauzon
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