Mageia A New Linux Distribution

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.

Forking an existing open source project is never an easy decision to make,
and forking Mandriva Linux is a huge task.

It was not an impulsive decision. We all spoke a lot before: former
employees, Cooker contributors and users' communities. We collected opinions
and reactions in the past weeks as we needed to get some kind of global
agreement and to gather, before going ahead.

We believe a fork is the best solution and we have decided to create a new
distribution: Mageia .