So is Mageia: its version 8 was already year old back then.
OpenMandriva Lx is still on the same version, 4.3, that we looked at a year ago, meaning that it uses what are by now quite old components. With the volunteer manpower spread fairly thinly among so many offshoots, the stable-release versions all move quite slowly. OpenMandriva uses the same DNF package management tool as Fedora and RHEL, and also supports Flatpak. So they're all in the greater Red Hat family: they use RPM packages, for instance. Mandrake itself resulted from Red Hat's refusal to incorporate the then-new KDE desktop into Red Hat Linux, because KDE used Qt, which wasn't FOSS by Red Hat's strict criteria.
That came out of the merger of the French Mandrake and Brazilian Conectiva companies. The project and its cousins – Mageia, ROSA Linux, and PCLinuxOS – are all cuttings from the same rootstock: Mandriva. OpenMandriva Rome 23.03 has cutting-edge components, but it's not yet clear if the team can keep those coming.
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