Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Our mission: to build great tools for people.
Further than just delivering a secure, stable and sustainable operating system, the goal is to set up a stable and trustable governance to direct collaborative projects.
To date, Mageia:
- started in September 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux,
- gathered hundreds of careful individuals and several companies worldwide, who coproduce the infrastructure, the distribution itself, documentation, delivery and support, using Free Software tools;
- released three major stable releases in June 2011, in May 2012 and in in May 2013.
Mageia.Org
is the French, Paris-based legal structure supporting the Mageia project.