Mageia

Mageia è un fork di Mandriva Linux nato nel Settembre 2010 da impiegati e contribuenti della popolare distribuzione Francese. A differenza di Mandriva, che è una entità commerciale, il progetto Mageia è mantenuto da una società no profit e l’obbiettivo è quello di sviluppare un sistema operativo Linux gratuito.

Versione 6

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

Highlights of Mageia 6

The extra time that has gone into this release has allowed for many exciting additions, here are a few of the major additions and key features of Mageia 6:

• KDE Plasma 5 replaces the previous KDE SC 4 desktop environment
• The new package manager DNF is provided as an alternative to urpmi, enabling a great packaging ecosystem:
  • Support for AppStream and thus GNOME Software and Plasma Discover
  • Support for Fedora COPR and openSUSE Build Service to provide third party packages for Mageia 6 and later
  • dnfdragora, a new GUI tool for package management inspired from rpmdrake
• Brand new icon theme for all Mageia tools, notably the Mageia Control Center
• Successful integration of the ARM port (ARMv5 and ARMv7) in the buildsystem, allowing to setup ARM chroots. Installation images are not available yet but will come in the future.
• GRUB2 as the default bootloader
• New Xfce Live images to test Mageia with a lighter weight environment
• While not a new feature, Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments and window managers (more details in an upcoming blog post)!

Package versions

All of the software in the repository has been rebuilt and updated to include the latest and greatest from around the open source ecosystem, here are some of the major components that make up this release:

• Low-level: Linux Kernel 4.9.35 (LTS), systemd 230, X.org 1.19.3, Wayland 1.11.0, Mesa 17.1.4
• Toolkits: Qt 5.6.2 (LTS), GTK+ 3.22.16
• Desktop environments: Plasma 5.8.7 (LTS), GNOME 3.24.2, MATE 1.18, Cinnamon 3.2.8, Xfce 4.12.1, LXQt 0.11
• Applications: LibreOffice 5.3.4.2, Firefox 52.2.0 ESR, Thunderbird 52.2.1, Chromium 57

Most user-facing applications are very recent releases, bringing Mageia users the best of free and open source software projects of 2017. Core components of the distribution use slightly more conservative versions, allowing for a good tradeoff between new developments and stability.

New ISO lineup

During this development cycle, we changed the ISO lineup to include Xfce Live images (32-bit and 64-bit), and remove 32-bit GNOME and Plasma Live images as well as the dual-arch installer.

This has had a number of benefits: it provides a lightweight Xfce live environment for both 32 and 64-bit installation, while reducing the number of supported ISOs and making it clearer what are the available install paths for each use case. Here is the full lineup of the Mageia 6 ISOs:

• 32-bit Classical Installer DVD
• 64-bit Classical Installer DVD
• GNOME 64-bit Live DVD
• Plasma 64-bit Live DVD
• Xfce 32-bit Live DVD
• Xfce 64-bit Live DVD

For those that still want to install 32-bit Plasma or GNOME, they are available on the Classical Installer or through network installation. All of these ISOs are hybrid, so they can be used on both USB sticks and DVDs; if a bootable CD is required, several network install images are available that can utilise many sources to complete an installation including a local or network mirror and the Classical Installer image. See the documentation for more info on the installation possibilities.

Mageia 6’s new look

We have created a full new theme for Mageia 6 that includes improvements with image scaling during boot time as well as a new iconset and improvements in the look of all Mageia-specific applications such as the Control Center (MCC). A big thanks to Timothée Giet for his work on modernizing and unifying Mageia’s looks!

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 64 bit DVD KDE (2,5GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/iso/6/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Plasma-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Plasma-x86_64-DVD.iso
• 64 bit DVD KDE torrent: http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/iso/6/torrents/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Plasma-x86_64-DVD.torrent
• 64 bit DVD Gnome (2GB): http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/mageia/iso/6/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso
• 64 bit DVD Gnome torrent: http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/mageia/iso/6/torrents/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.torrent
• 64 bit DVD XFCE (1,9GB): http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/mageia.org/iso/6/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Xfce-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Xfce-x86_64-DVD.iso
• 64 bit DVD XFCE torrent: http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/mageia.org/iso/6/torrents/Mageia-6-LiveDVD-Xfce-x86_64-DVD.torrent

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.mageia.org/it/

Screenshot

Mageia 6

Conclusioni

Questa versione sarà supportata per 18 mesi.