Because of the probles Mandriva is facing, some people decided to fork it, and create Mageia.
Read that last post here:
This will be a community driven project and therefore not affected by the desitions of any company.
Mandriva is a great Distro, so, I expect Mageia to follow its steps.
I have written in the past some Tutorials about installing Mandriva, and also dual booting it with Debian.
http://www.go2linux.org/dual-boot-two-linux-distros-debian-and-mandriva Se below the excerpt from Mageia page.Amplify’d from mageia.org
Mageia – A New Linux Distribution
Paris, September 18th 2010
As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is unclear.
Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project.
Many things have happened in the past 12 years. Some were very nice: the Mandriva Linux community is quite large, motivated and experienced, the distribution remains one of the most popular and an award-winning product, easy to use and innovative. Some other events did have some really bad consequences that made people not so confident in the viability of their favourite distribution.
People working on it just do not want to be dependent on the economic fluctuations and erratic, unexplained strategic moves of the company.
Forking Mandriva Linux? Yes.
We believe a fork is the best solution and we have decided to create a new distribution: Mageia.
Mageia is a community project: it will not depend on the fate of a particular company.
Next.
We are looking for many different things in the next days:
- hardware for code hosting, build servers + datacenters to host these servers;
- developers, contributors, translators, testers to invest into the development of Mageia;
- counsels on building the organization and its processes, etc.
Your help and support will be very much appreciated.
