Mageia 3 released



    Mageia is a Linux distribution founded in 2010 by former Mandriva employees. The distribution was created as a fork of Mandriva and has much in common with its ancestor. Unlike Mandriva, it is a non-profit distribution and is developed by the community. The distribution is in second place in popularity on distrowatch.com.

    The main working environment is KDE, but there are versions with GNOME. There is a graphical configurator that allows you to configure the system without having to climb into the console. For those who like to play, there is also something.

    New versions of the distribution come out approximately once every 9 months. For those who need rolling-release - there is a Cauldron branch being developed, which is constantly updated with new versions of programs.

    Today is the third version of this distribution. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Yevgeny Dodonov.

    Innovations


    Let's see what the developers have prepared for us new.

    Base system:

    • Moving programs from the root directory to / usr. The practice of placing part of the system utilities at the root has developed historically, for example, utilities were needed to mount the same / usr. Now this is no longer relevant, because / usr is mounted using intramfs and there is no need to keep some utilities in the root. Read more .
    • The kernel has been updated to version 3.8.
    • Added test support for GRUB2, the first version of GRUB is used by default.
    • Systemd version 195
    • Reworked package groups in the program installer.
    • For packages, XZ compression is used.
    • The program installer now displays a general indicator of installation progress.
    • Updated logo, wallpaper and theme.

    Work environments:

    • KDE SC 4.10.2
    • GNOME 3.6
    • LXDE 0.5.5
    • XFCE 4.10
    • Enlightment e17
    • RazorQt 0.5.2

    Applications and development tools:

    • Firefox ESR 17
    • Chromium 26
    • Libreoffice 4.0.3
    • Thunderbird 17
    • Ardor 3
    • GCC 4.7.2
    • Clang 3.2
    • Qt 5.0.2 and 4.8.4
    • Steam has been added to the repository! (Client for Valve's game distribution platform).


    A more detailed list of updated programs can be found here .



    The following images are available for download:
    • LiveDVD 1.4 GB for KDE and GNOME
    • LiveCD for KDE and GNOME
    • installation DVD
    • images for network installation

    The images are hybrid and can be recorded on a USB flash drive. Download page.

    Additional Information


    The distribution repository is divided into three groups:

    • Core - Free Software
    • Non-free - non-free software
    • Tainted is free software that may have problems with patents (codecs, etc.)


    By default, only Core is enabled. You can connect the rest and update the system, after which all the necessary codecs will be installed, more complete versions of some libraries will be installed, etc.

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