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bsergay ,

How do the ‘offspring’ of Mandrake/Mandriva compare to one another? IIRC, there’s ALT, Mageia, OpenMandriva, PCLinuxOS and ROSA.

I’ve also come to the understanding that what set Mandrake apart from its peers was its polish and user-friendliness. Which, harbored a great community back in the days. Currently, however, this role is fulfilled by distros like Linux Mint. Furthermore, most distros are relatively straightforward anyways. So, my other questions would be:

  • Could the argument be made that Linux Mint is the actual spiritual successor to Mandrake?
  • Are the Mandrake-offspring’s most compelling raison d’être that they’re Mandrake’s offspring?
boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

Can someone ELI5 what OpenMandriva is?

In what place does it stand in contrast to Fedora, OpenSUS, and all the Enterprise Linux forks?

banazir OP , (edited )
@banazir@lemmy.ml avatar

Mandriva was a Linux distribution that went out of business years ago. OpenMandriva is one of the projects that rose from its ashes with some of the same personnel and code base. It is an independent (not a fork) and community run distribution that, I think, does quite a lot with very limited resources.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
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I can’t answer your question unfortunately but inclusion of OpenSUS in it deserves an immediate upvote.

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