Here is the first alpha of Mageia 4 (released on Aug. 10th). This is alpha software. This means, it is NOT:
- for daily use,
- for any kind of productive use,
- for writing any kinds of reviews.
It is a testing release for finding bugs, to look out for important missing packages, a platform for further development leading to the beta stage and finally our first official release planned in February 2014. More info about Mageia 4 Development.
Download it
You can download it by selecting your mirror from http://mirrors.mageia.org/ and going into iso/cauldron or from http://www.mageia.org/4/ directly (easiest way).
Classical installer
Not yet available, maybe later.
Live
- 2 Live CDs 32bits only in English
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-en-i586-CD.iso
- md5: 5011921d4cb484a723654866a7f26e0b
- sha1: 0627dc58db5f0caae0f3a86762007ae784267751
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso
- md5: da7f7cd9fed8ed5e274b5f9ca95e6570
- sha1: 1ef7887739907997b05f5dea221752aa16f02d45
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-en-i586-CD.iso
- 4 LiveDVDs (32 and 64bits) multilingual
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso
- md5: b33c6c5a9921744d9b291728ad08c28a
- sha1: 29067c62482c4a1d0537f3134836ba063c90a55c
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-KDE4-i586-DVD.iso
- md5: 2a1698950fc87f6ea38aee8bbb280142
- sha1: f52705a10c116b09e16d4a3b9c3ae90f0cc3f3ce
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso
- md5: d0c4ec2f70d8a0be19aa98356bf1f8a3
- sha1: 6091ededd87d5fd79c53e8236e1a05f3a239bfd6
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso
- md5: 1710dbc3755fa0e118dc39ecb96d2db5
- sha1: 673f0854e42314448121741cc0cbfc7f61548d2a
- Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso
Major new features
Installation
Package management
RPM has been upgraded to 4.11.0
Base system
kernel
- Mageia 4 Alpha 1 ships with kernel 3.10.5
systemd
- Mageia 4 Alpha 1 comes with systemd 206
GRUB
- Mageia 4 Alpha 1 still comes with GRUB as a default. But we also provide GRUB2.
Perl
- Perl has been upgraded to 5.18.0
Graphical environments
KDE
KDE 4.11-rc2 is now available in alpha 1.
Qt 4.8.5
GNOME
GNOME environment is also provided. currently 3.9.5.
LXDE
RazorQt
Mate
Mate is now inside the repositories.
Cinammon
Cinnamon is now inside the repositories.
Office apps
- Alpha 1 comes with Libreoffice 4.1
Games
Education
Software Development
Artwork and design
New artwork is not yet integrated in this early stage of Mageia 4.
Known issues
See Errata page
Tests wanted!
If not done yet, you can confirm or invalidate the currently reported (by the QA or other people) bugs: (see here or here a biggest list )
Bug reporting
You can find our bugzilla here, but please read the Errata before reporting any bugs. If you don't already have a Mageia account, you can create one on https://identity.mageia.org/. If you don't know, see how to report a bug.