Mageia

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Unix-like operating system forked from Mandriva Linux

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::summary Unix-like operating system forked from Mandriva Linux ::

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Field	Value
name	Mageia
logo	Mageia logo.svgclass=skin-invert
screenshot	Mageia 8 Welcome screen.png
caption	Screenshot of Mageia 8 KDE
family	Linux (Unix-like)
working state	Active
source model	Open source
released
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview version	10 alpha
latest preview date
language	167 languages
kernel type	Monolithic (Linux)
userland	GNU
ui	KDE Plasma Desktop (Live USB/DVD), GNOME 3 Desktop (Live USB/DVD), XFCE (Live USB/DVD)LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, Enlightenment
license	Free software licenses
(mainly GPL) and other licenses
supported platforms	i586, amd64
package manager	DNF (alternate) and urpmi (legacy)
preceded by	Mandriva Linux
website
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The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.

History

Mageia was created in 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux, by a group of former employees of Mandriva S.A. and several other members of the Mandriva community.

On September 2, 2010, Edge IT, one of the subsidiaries of Mandriva, was placed under liquidation process by the Tribunal de commerce in Paris; effective September 17, all assets were liquidated and employees were let go.

The next day, on September 18, 2010, some of these former employees, who were mostly responsible for the development and maintenance of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and several community members announced the creation of Mageia, with the support of many members of the community of developers, users and employees of Mandriva Linux.

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Desktop environments

Mageia can use all major desktop environments. As was the case with Mandrake and Mandriva Linux, KDE Plasma is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from Plasma and GNOME 64-bit live DVD editions, 32-bit and 64-bit Xfce live DVD editions, and any environment in the full DVD installation edition.

It uses Mageia Control Center. LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE and Enlightenment are also available.

Application repository

Mageia offers a very large repository of software, such as productivity applications and a large variety of games. It was the first Linux distribution in which MariaDB replaced Oracle's MySQL.

Development

Mageia was originally planned to be released on a nine-month release cycle, with each release to be supported for 18 months.

Actual practice has been to release a new version when the Mageia development community feels the new release is ready from quality and stability viewpoints.

The latest stable version is Mageia 9, released on 27 August 2023.

Version history

::data[format=table] | Version | Release date | url=https://www.mageia.org/en/support|title=Support for Mageia distribution|last=Mageia|website=www.mageia.org|quote=Mageia releases are supported at least for 18 months. Or a minimum of 3 months after the next release, whichever is longer}} | Kernel version | 9 | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | 2011-06-01 | 2012-12-01 | 2.6.38.7 | | | 2 | 2012-05-22 | 2013-11-22 | 3.3.6 | | | 3 | 2013-05-19 | 2014-11-26 | 3.8.13 | | | 4 | 2014-02-01 | 2015-09-19 | 3.12.13 | | | 4.1 | 2014-06-20 | 3.12.21 | | | | 5 | 2015-06-19 | 2017-12-31 | 3.19.8 | | | 5.1 | 2016-12-02 | 4.4.30 | | | | 6 | 2017-07-16 | 2019-09-30 | 4.9.35 | | | 6.1 | 2018-10-05 | 4.14.70 | | | | 7.0 | 2019-07-01 | 2021-06-30 | 5.1.14 | | | 7.1 | 2019-07-16 | | | | | 8 | 2021-02-26 | 2023-11-30 | 5.10.16 | | | 2023-08-27 | 3 months after its successor's release date | 6.4 | | | | Legend: | | | | | ::

References

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"Mageia Blog (English)". Mageia.
(26 November 2013). "Available locales". Mageia.
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Holwerda. (19 September 2010). "Mandriva Fork Announced by Former Employees". OSnews.
Sufyan bin Uzayr. (6 June 2011). "Mageia 1 Review: The Magic Begins Now!". Muktwar.
Heuillard, Romain. (3 June 2011). "Mageia 1 : la variante purement communautaire de Mandriva est disponible". [[Clubic]].
Belfiore, Guillaume. (September 20, 2010). "Mageia : un prochain fork de Mandriva". [[Clubic]].
(2010). "EDGE-IT à paris sur SOCIETE.COM (444481204)". Societe.com.
(2010). "Edge-IT, le faux nez de Mandriva, en liquidation judiciaire". Channelnews.
Community Mageia. (September 18, 2010). "Public Announcement".
"Distributions Which Include MariaDB". AskMonty KnowledgeBase.
Neil Richards. (July 18, 2011). "Mageia Goes For 9 Month Release Cycle". Muktware.
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(18 June 2011). "Mageia 1.0 review - LinuxBSDos.com".
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(4 June 2012). "Mageia 2 review - LinuxBSDos.com".
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Watson, J.A.. "Hands on with Mageia 3 - ZDNet".
"Mageia 3 – Gone in 60 seconds".
Watson, J.A.. "Mageia 4.0, hands-on: Another excellent release - ZDNet".
(13 February 2014). "Mageia 4 review – Cinnamon, GNOME 3, KDE and MATE desktops - LinuxBSDos.com".
DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.".
"Mageia 5 – So Much Better Than Last Time".
DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.".
DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.".
"Mageia 6 review - Very refreshing".
(October 5, 2018). "It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Mageia 6.1". Mageia.
DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Distribution Release: Mageia 7".
(June 8, 2021). "Mageia 7 will reach End of Support on 30th of June – "The king is dead, long live the king!"". Mageia.
(July 16, 2019). "Mageia 7.1, Mageia 7 with Ryzen 3000 hardware support". Mageia.
(February 26, 2021). "Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8". Mageia.
"Mageia 9 Release Notes - Mageia wiki".

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