Mageia

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Mageia
Mageia logo
Mageia5 kde.png
Screenshot of Mageia 5 KDE
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OS family Unix-like
Source model Open source
Initial release June 1, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-01)
Latest release 5 (June 19, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-19)[1]) [±]
Latest preview (none) [±]
Available in 167 languages[2]
Update method urpmi (rpmdrake)
Package manager RPM
Platforms IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
Userland Mostly GNU and other open source
Default user interface KDE Plasma Desktop (DVD), GNOME 3 Desktop (DVD), LXDE (CD)[3]
License Free software licenses
(mainly GPL) and other licenses.
Official website mageia.org

Mageia is a Linux based operating system, distributed as free and open source software. It is forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution.[4][5]

The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.[6][7]

History

Mageia was created in 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux,[4][5][8] by a group of former employees of Mandriva S.A. and several other developers and users and supporters of the Mandriva community.

On September 2, 2010, Edge IT, one of the subsidiaries of Mandriva, was placed under liquidation process by the Paris (France) Tribunal de commerce;[9][10] effective by 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.[11]

Desktop environment

Like many other distributions, Mageia uses all major desktop environments. Similar to Mandrake/Mandriva Linux, KDE is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from KDE and GNOME for the small installation DVD edition, any environment in full DVD edition and Xfce on the dual-arch CD. It uses Mageia Control Center.

Development

Mageia is planned to be released on a 9-month release cycle, with each release to be supported for 2 cycles, that is 18 months.[12]

The latest stable version is Mageia 5, released in June 2015.

Version history

Version Release date End-of-life date[13] Kernel version
Old version, no longer supported: 1 2011-06-01 2012-12-01 2.6.38.7
Old version, no longer supported: 2 2012-05-22 2013-11-22 3.3.6
Old version, no longer supported: 3 2013-05-19 2014-11-26 3.8.13
Old version, no longer supported: 4 2014-02-01 2015-09-19 3.12.13
Old version, no longer supported: 4.1 2014-06-20 2015-09-19 3.12.21
Current stable version: 5 2015-06-19 2016-12-16 3.19.8
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still supported
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release
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Features

Mageia is the first Linux distribution where MariaDB replaced Oracle's MySQL.[14]

Terminology

The Greek term mageía (μαγεία) means enchantment, fascination, glamour, wizardry.[15]

See also

  • OpenMandriva Lx—a Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux
  • PCLinuxOS—another Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux
  • Unity Linux—Mandriva-based distribution designed to be a base for end user distributions

References

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  3. ↑ http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/05/18/mageia-2-and-the-default-gnome-3-desktop/
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  13. ↑ https://www.mageia.org/en/support/
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External links

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