Mageia 9
Mayank Sharma remembers Linux-Mandrake 5.1 for sowing the seeds of his complex relationship with KDE. How relevant is its successor in 2021?
IN BRIEF
The Mageia Linux distro is one of the most popular forks of Linux-Mandrake, which is seen as the distro that helped make Linux take big strides towards the desktop. Linux was poised to become the next big thing in the server space, but it struggled to make any headway on the desktop. Linux- Mandrake polished Linux’s usability and despite its collapse, its legacy lives on in Mageia.
M ageia is one of the newer Linux distros, but it has roots that extend back well into the ‘90s. Innovating the Linux desktop has been the driving force behind the distro since its very beginning.