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Mageia

Topic: Software

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Short description: Unix-like operating system forked from Mandriva Linux
Mageia
Mageia logo.svg
Mageia 8 screenshot.png
Screenshot of Mageia 8 KDE
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateActive
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseJune 1, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-01)
|Final release|Latest release}}6 (July 16, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-07-16)[1]) [±]
|Final preview|Latest preview}}9 rc1 / July 23, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-07-23)[2]
Available in167 languages[3]
Package managerDNF (alternate) and urpmi (legacy)
Platformsi586, amd64
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default user interfaceKDE Plasma Desktop (Live USB/DVD), GNOME 3 Desktop (Live USB/DVD), XFCE (Live USB/DVD)[4]LXDE, LXQt, Cinammon, MATE, Enlightenment
LicenseFree software licenses
(mainly GPL) and other licenses
Official websitewww.mageia.org/en

Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open-source software. It was forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution.[5][6] The Greek term mageía (μαγεία) means enchantment, fascination, glamour, wizardry.[7]

The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.[8][9]

History

Mageia was created in 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux,[5][6][10] 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;[11][12] 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.[13]

Desktop environments

Mageia can use all major desktop environments. As was the case with Mandrake and Mandriva Linux, KDE is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from KDE 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, Cinammon, 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.[14]

Development

Mageia was originally planned to be released on a nine-month release cycle, with each release to be supported for 18 months.[15]

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

Version Release date End-of-life date[16] Kernel version
1[17][18] 2011-06-01 2012-12-01 2.6.38.7
2[19][20] 2012-05-22 2013-11-22 3.3.6
3[21][22][23] 2013-05-19 2014-11-26 3.8.13
4[24][25][26] 2014-02-01 2015-09-19 3.12.13
4.1 2014-06-20 3.12.21
5[27][28] 2015-06-19 2017-12-31 3.19.8
5.1 2016-12-02 4.4.30
6[29][30] 2017-07-16 2019-09-30 4.9.35
6.1[31] 2018-10-05 4.14.70
7.0[32][33] 2019-07-01 2021-06-30 5.1.14
7.1[34][33] 2019-07-16
8[35] 2021-02-26 2023-11-30 5.10.16
9[36] 2023-08-27 3 months after its successor's release date 6.4
Legend:   Old version, not maintained   Older version, still maintained   Current stable version   Future version


See also

  • OpenMandriva Lx—a Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux
  • PCLinuxOS—another Linux distribution now independent, but whose start was based on Mandriva Linux
  • Unity Linux—Mandriva-based distribution designed to be a base for end-user distributions

References

  1. ↑ "Announcing Mageia 6, finally ready to shine!". Mageia Blog (English). July 16, 2017. https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/announcing-mageia-6/. 
  2. ↑ "Mageia Blog (English)". Mageia. https://blog.mageia.org/en. 
  3. ↑ "Available locales". Mageia. November 26, 2013. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Available_locales. 
  4. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20170918#mageia. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Spencer Dalziel (September 20, 2010). "Ex-Mandriva Linux staff fork the distro". The Inquirer. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1733986/ex-mandriva-linux-staff-fork-distro. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Thom Holwerda (September 19, 2010). "Mandriva Fork Announced by Former Employees". OSnews. http://www.osnews.com/story/23820/Mandriva_Fork_Announced_by_Former_Employees. 
  7. ↑ "Greek - English Dictionary". myEtymology. http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon. 
  8. ↑ Sufyan bin Uzayr (June 6, 2011). "Mageia 1 Review: The Magic Begins Now!". Muktwar. http://www.muktware.com/articles/1336/mageia-1-review-magic-begins-now. 
  9. ↑ Heuillard, Romain (June 3, 2011). "Mageia 1 : la variante purement communautaire de Mandriva est disponible". Clubic. http://www.clubic.com/linux-os/actualite-426042-mageia-1-fork-mandriva-linux-disponible.html. 
  10. ↑ Belfiore, Guillaume (September 20, 2010). "Mageia : un prochain fork de Mandriva". Clubic. http://www.clubic.com/linux-os/actualite-366354-mageia-prochain-fork-mandriva.html. 
  11. ↑ "EDGE-IT à paris sur SOCIETE.COM (444481204)" (in fr). Societe.com. 2010. http://www.societe.com/societe/edge-it-444481204.html. 
  12. ↑ "Edge-IT, le faux nez de Mandriva, en liquidation judiciaire" (in fr). Channelnews. 2010. http://www.channelnews.fr/accueil/en-bref/101-actualite-des-societes/7609-edge-it-la-filiale-operationnelle-de-mandriva-en-liquidation-judiciaire.html. 
  13. ↑ Community Mageia (September 18, 2010). "Public Announcement". http://www.mageia.org/en/about/2010-sept-announcement.html. 
  14. ↑ "Distributions Which Include MariaDB". AskMonty KnowledgeBase. http://kb.askmonty.org/en/distributions-which-include-mariadb. 
  15. ↑ Neil Richards (July 18, 2011). "Mageia Goes For 9 Month Release Cycle". Muktware. http://www.muktware.com/1878/mageia-goes-9-month-release-cycle. 
  16. ↑ Mageia. "Support for Mageia distribution". https://www.mageia.org/en/support. "Mageia releases are supported at least for 18 months. Or a minimum of 3 months after the next release, whichever is longer" 
  17. ↑ "Mageia 1.0 review - LinuxBSDos.com". 18 June 2011. http://linuxbsdos.com/2011/06/18/mageia-1-0-review. 
  18. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110627#feature. 
  19. ↑ "Mageia 2 review - LinuxBSDos.com". 4 June 2012. http://linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/03/mageia-2-review. 
  20. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120604#feature. 
  21. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130527#feature. 
  22. ↑ Watson, J.A.. "Hands on with Mageia 3 - ZDNet". https://www.zdnet.com/article/hands-on-with-mageia-3. 
  23. ↑ "Mageia 3 – Gone in 60 seconds". http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/08/mageia-3-gone-in-60-seconds.html. 
  24. ↑ Watson, J.A.. "Mageia 4.0, hands-on: Another excellent release - ZDNet". https://www.zdnet.com/article/mageia-4-0-hands-on-another-excellent-release. 
  25. ↑ "Mageia 4 review – Cinnamon, GNOME 3, KDE and MATE desktops - LinuxBSDos.com". 13 February 2014. http://linuxbsdos.com/2014/02/12/mageia-4-review-cinnamon-gnome-3-kde-and-mate-desktops. 
  26. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140303#feature. 
  27. ↑ "Mageia 5 – So Much Better Than Last Time". http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/08/mageia-5-so-much-better-than-last-time.html. 
  28. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150914#mageia. 
  29. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.". https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20170918#mageia. 
  30. ↑ "Mageia 6 review - Very refreshing". https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mageia-6.html. 
  31. ↑ "It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Mageia 6.1". Mageia. October 5, 2018. https://blog.mageia.org/en/2018/10/05/it-is-with-great-pleasure-that-we-announce-the-release-of-mageia-6-1. 
  32. ↑ DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Distribution Release: Mageia 7". https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10599. 
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 "Mageia 7 will reach End of Support on 30th of June – "The king is dead, long live the king!"". Mageia. June 8, 2021. https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/06/08/mageia-7-will-reach-end-of-support-on-30th-of-june-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king. 
  34. ↑ "Mageia 7.1, Mageia 7 with Ryzen 3000 hardware support". Mageia. July 16, 2019. https://blog.mageia.org/en/2019/07/16/mageia-7-1-mageia-7-with-ryzen-3000-hardware-support. 
  35. ↑ "Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8". Mageia Blog (English) (Mageia). February 26, 2021. https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/26/made-it-to-a-byte-announcing-the-release-of-mageia-8. 
  36. ↑ "Mageia 9 Release Notes - Mageia wiki". https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Release_Notes. 

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