Mageia is described as 'Fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, the Mageia project is a community project and a' and is a Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Mageia for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, BSD, Windows and Mac apps. The best Mageia alternative is Linux Mint, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mageia are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux.