[Mageia-discuss] origin of the name "mageia"?

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 20 19:26:01 CEST 2010


Now we have read it from 4 different people:
While 2 just explained it, one gave the link to wikipedia and one
cited wikipedia.

It must be true! :)

2010/9/20 Basilio Rosa <basiliog at gmail.com>:
> The term Mageia — μαγεία in greek — means magic in english. It's a reference
> to Mandrake (the magician), old name of the distribution Mandriva Linux.
>
> 2010/9/20 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>
>>
>> Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>
>> > I must have missed some posting that explains "mageia"!
>> >
>> > What is the origin of this name, please?
>>
>> It's ancient greek and means "magic".
>>
>> Oliver
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