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| 2013-03-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Mageia 3 Beta 3 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third beta release of Mageia 3: "As we said in a previous blog post, Mageia 3 planning was modified to give us some more time -- for one more beta release and to enable us to hunt down more bugs. We finally had to face quite a lot of them during the QA tests of beta 3 ISO images and it took more time than expected to fix them. We've been working really hard, and now we have beta 3 ready for you to start testing. So here are the live ISO images for downloading; the images using the classical installer should be released in a very short time, and we'll post again as soon as that happens. We need you more than ever -- please, download, install and test, test, test." Read the release announcement and release notes for information about the major new features and components. Download: Mageia-3-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,411MB, MD5), Mageia-3-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,374MB, MD5). |
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| About Mageia
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| Mageia is a 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 non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.
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| 2013-05-19 |
Distribution Release: Mageia 3 |
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Trish Fraser has announced the release of Mageia 3, the third official release of the community distribution that was created by former developers and contributors of the once highly popular Mandriva Linux in late 2010: "All grown up and ready to go dancing - Mageia 3 is out. We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years. Major new features: updates to RPM (4.11) and urpmi, which has been given a good turnout and cleanup; Linux kernel 3.8; systemd 195; GRUB is the default boot loader; GRUB 2 is available; revamped package groupings for installation and rpmdrake; KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6, Xfce 4.10; LibreOffice 4.0.3; Steam for Linux...." Read the release announcement and check out the detailed release notes for further information. Download (mirror list) the live or the installation DVD images from here: Mageia-3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,491MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,450MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,756MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-04-21 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 RC |
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Anne Nicolas has announced that the only release candidate and the final development build for Mageia 3 is now ready for testing: "We are now two weeks from the end of the trip (at least we hope we will have no delay). Mageia 3 release candidate is now available for the very final tests. We need your feedback more than ever. The Mageia team is working hard to fix the last annoying bugs - what we call release-critical bugs. How do we qualify a release-critical one? All the bugs that cannot be fixed through updates, mainly in the installer, the kernel and some of the main drivers. As with the beta 4, live ISO images are still in progress and should be released in the coming days." Mageia 3 RC ships with the latest Linux kernel, version 3.8.8, and includes RPM 4.11, systemd 195, KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6.3 and LibreOffice 4.0.2. See the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. Download the installation DVD image from here: Mageia-3-RC-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,865MB, MD5). The final release of Mageia 3 is scheduled for 3 May 2013. |
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| 2013-03-31 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Beta 4 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the fourth and last beta release of Mageia 3: "After all the delays in our Mageia 3 planning, we're very pleased to be able to announce the beta 4 release. Packagers and the QA team have worked hard to fix as many bugs as possible. We are now one month from the Mageia 3 final release, so your tests -- and reports! -- are more important than ever. This beta release comes with nearly all the designs for Mageia 3 integrated -- many thanks to Leo who made the background image for Mageia 2 and then worked again on the Mageia 3 design. Initially we're releasing the i586 and x86_64 DVDs and dual CD using the classical installer; work is still in progress on the live ISOs." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,857MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-01-26 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Beta 2 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the second beta release of Mageia 3: "We are reaching the final run for Mageia 3 release - the beta 2 ISO images are available for tests. We will need your feedback on the Broadcom wireless chipset. We intentionally removed all proprietary drivers for it. So it comes configured using only the free one. This is a test to check support by the free drivers. If in some way we get too many failures, we will revert it to the hardware that still needs the proprietary driver. This release also comes with the brand-new version of LibreOffice, the 4.0.0 RC2 version." Read the brief release announcement and the more detailed release notes for more information and a list of known issues. Download links: Mageia-3-beta2-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,428MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-beta2-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,389MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,039MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-12-19 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Beta 1 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced that, after a brief delay, the first beta release of Mageia 3 is ready testing: "Mageia 3 beta 1 is finally here. This first beta release was a bit tricky as it comes with some major new features in the installer. GRUB 2 has been included as an option. Using DVDs with the classic installer you will be proposed to install some proprietary drivers and/or firmware. Just choose to add 'nonfree' media. QA team is waiting for your bug reports. Please help us to make Mageia 3 meet high-quality level." This beta release ships with the brand-new Linux kernel 3.7 with systemd 195 and it also includes the second beta of the upcoming KDE 4.10 series and GNOME 3.6.2. Read the release announcement and release notes for more information and a list of known issues. Quick links to the installation DVDs (please see the Mageia mirrors page if you prefer one of the live CD/DVD images with GNOME or KDE in your preferred language): Mageia-3-beta1-i586-DVD.iso (3,845MB, MD5), Mageia-3-beta1-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,797MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-11-14 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Alpha 3 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Mageia 3: "Finally the bug hunt was successful and the alpha 3 release is now available for tests. We hope you will enjoy this new one. Upgrade from Mageia 2 is now possible and we need your feedback to make it smooth for final Mageia 3. Major new features: the first stage of the installer will now automatically pass the right URL to stage2; RPM has been upgraded to 4.10.1; urpmi has been re-factored and cleaned, various bugs have been fixed; base system - Linux kernel 3.6.5, systemd 195, Perl has been upgraded to 5.16.1; graphical environments - KDE 4.9.2, Qt 5 beta, GNOME 3.6.1, LibreOffice 3.6...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download the installation DVD images (live CD and DVD images with KDE and GNOME are also available): Mageia-3-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso (3,864MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-alpha3-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,884MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-10-14 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Alpha 2 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Mageia 3: "After some days spent on bug hunting with the QA team, the alpha 2 ISO images are finally ready to be tested. Alpha 3 comes as a full set of ISO images. As usual you will find 2 DVDs using classical installer and a dual-architecture CD. Live ISO images are also available, now using OverlayFS: two 32-bit live CDs only in English and 4 multilingual live DVDs (32-bit and 64-bit). This is a result of a discussion in Mageia community to rethink our current set of ISO images. We still have some work to do on the installer to propose non-free driver installation. We need your report now to improve this new version." The release announcement and release notes have more information. Quick links to download the installation DVD images: Mageia-3-alpha2-i586-DVD.iso (3,662MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-alpha2-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,676MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-09-07 |
Development Release: Mageia 3 Alpha 1 |
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Anne Nicolas has announced that, after a brief delay, the first development build of Mageia 3 is ready for download and testing: "Mageia 3 is on the way and here is the first alpha release. We are now waiting for your tests. As usual, you will find installation DVD images and dual-architecture CD images. However, live CDs are not available. They rely on a specific file system, Unionfs, but Unionfs is not included in the upstream kernel and has to be rebuilt for every new kernel version. It seems that it does not work properly on the 3.5 kernel series. We are investigating the issue, but since Unionfs seems to be unmaintained upstream at the moment, we need to either fix it and maintain it ourselves or we need to switch to another file system like Aufs or OverlayFS." The first alpha release of Mageia 3 comes with Linux kernel 3.5.3, KDE 4.9.0, and GNOME 3.5.91. Read the release announcement and release notes for a brief feature list. Download: Mageia-3-alpha1-i586-DVD.iso (3,542MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-alpha1-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,607MB, MD5, torrent).
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