deloptes composed on 2017-08-06 19:18 (UTC+0200):

> I have never heard of Mageia 

I'll bet you had (before today):

<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MageiaInstall> and its addition to
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Category:Documentation>date back more than 3 years.

1998 - Mandrake forked off RedHat 5.1, featuring KDE instead of Gnome:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20040404122826/http://www.distrowatch.com:80/table.php?distribution=mandrake>

(2004 - first Ubuntu release)

2005 - Conectiva Linux was merged into Mandrake and the name was changed to
Mandriva. The Mandrake line makes up most of Mandriva's Distrowatch history,
going all the way back to 1998:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20130925163717/http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva>

2010 - Mageia forked from Mandriva:
<http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia>
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