Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open-source software. It was forked from the defunct Mandriva Linux distribution.
This is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Mageia offers a very large repository of software, such as productivity applications and a wide number of games
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | RPM (URPMI) |
| Release Model: | Fixed, Rolling (Cauldron) |
| Platforms: | aarch64, arm7, i686, x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.mageia.org |
| Developer: | Mageia.Org |
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Mageia is not a rolling release. It is currently on Mageia 9, with Mageia 10 to be soon released.
As for desktops, MATE and Cinniman are also supported, among others.
It supports i686, no longer supporting i586.
Package management is RPM(URMI). URPMI adds a lot of function to RPM.
Mageia Cauldron (development version) is rolling although the actual releases are best described as fixed.
I don’t just list DEs that are supported. I have amended the other entries.
Thanks for the update.
However, development versions are necessarily rolling. Fedora rawhide is rolling as well, but Fedora is listed as fixed.
As Mageia should be.