Mageia 6: The name Mageia comes from the Greek word "Magia." It is a reference to the magician Mandrake, the original name of the Mandriva Linux distribution.
Mandriva Linux was a consumer-oriented distribution, and was the combination of the previously separate Mandrake, Conectiva, and Lycoris distributions. Mandrake was based on Red Hat Linux, with an emphasis on graphical user interfaces for novice users and an aesthetically improved graphical interface.
On September 18, 2010, a group of former Mandriva employees and community supporters announced the creation of a fork of Mandriva Linux, a new community-driven distribution called Mageia. It was a response to the developments of the last few weeks, where most of the Mandriva employees were laid off, when Edge-IT (a company owned by Mandriva) went into liquidation. The group explains that they do not want to be "dependent on the financial instability and the company's strategy at any given time."
The Mageia organization will coordinate and manage the distribution: code and hosting of the software and distribution, build system, marketing, promotion of communication and events. Data, roadmaps, designs, will be shared and discussed within the framework of this organization.
So yesterday the new Mageia 6 was released, a distribution that I was honestly waiting for, as I am a friend of any RH-based distribution that uses the rpm package manager. (A package manager is a collection of tools that provides a graphical method of installing, upgrading, and uninstalling applications from the computer.)
Of course, I downloaded the Live ISO and tried it, on the Gnome version. You can see the results below:
The Live USB immediately after booting asked me to set the time, system language, and keyboard. Immediately after that, the familiar Gnome screen opened, along with a toolbar that appears after every first boot in most Linux distributions.
I set up Greek-English without difficulty and opened the first folder. 
First surprise…
Without me having to add any drivers, the Live distribution saw the iPhone I had and was charging it via USB. And not only did it see it, it also opened it without any problems.
Mageia 6 has incredible graphics and configuration features that will satisfy even Windows “migrants”.
I thought I'd see how the system processes were going, as even though I was running the operating system from the Live USB, I didn't notice any lag or freezes.
Surprise number two
Although it is a “full” operating system, its use is very “quiet.” 
Essentially, as you can see above, the CPU doesn't seem to be stressed, and RAM usage reaches 43.2%, which is normal if you consider that it's running from a Live USB.
As you will see in the image below, the Mageia 6 distribution will not make it difficult for you if you want to connect to an existing network, or if you want to create your own:
It also allows you to easily manage your disks:
If you are now thinking of trying the French distribution, simply download the necessary files for the Desktop you want: Cinnamon, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce.
Select the ISO you want from the official website:
https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
You can read the new release notes from the link below:
https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16
Installation will not be a problem, since the application installer will guide you through a simple graphical interface:
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It should be emphasized that the distribution, unlike Mandriva, which was a commercial Linux, a commercial entity, is a community operating system and a non-profit organization, whose goal is to develop a free operating system based on Linux. But herein lies the problem, if one can call it a problem.
The distribution is only 7 years old, and no one knows how long it will last. Version 6, released on July 16, has been in development for a very long time now, which indicates a fairly slow development cycle.
With information from the Greek Wikipedia and Distrowatch
