Mageia

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Mageia
Mageia's logo
Mageia 4
Mageia 4 with the KDE SC interface
developer Mageia community
License (s) GPL and others
Current  version 7.1 (July 16, 2019)
ancestry GNU / Linux
↳ Red Hat Linux
↳ Mandrake
↳ Mandriva Linux
↳ Mageia
Architecture (s) x86 , x64
Others Language: multilingual, u. a. German
mageia.org

Mageia is a Linux distribution that was launched in September 2010 as a spin-off from Mandriva Linux . The name from the Greek μαγεία means "magic".

In June 2011 over 100 people, organized in more than 10 teams, worked on the development within the international Mageia community. The project is run by a non-profit organization run by elected members.

history

The French company Mandriva SA, which sold the distribution Mandriva, had some financial uncertainties in the past, and the future of Mandriva itself appeared uncertain. After the termination of the subsidiary Edge-IT, which belongs to Mandriva SA, a group of former employees decided to create a fork of the distribution together with part of the community, which should not be dependent on a company. The name Mageia was chosen.

On September 18, 2010, the establishment of Mageia was publicly announced as an independent fork from Mandriva. In addition, the non-profit organization Mageia.Org should be founded, which should manage and coordinate the new distribution. The management of the non-profit organization is taken over by an elected group from the community, with the management being re-elected annually.

After several suggestions for the logo for Mageia had already been made in advance, the principles for the appearance of the logo were published. Between September and November 2010, a total of 430 proposals from 113 artists were submitted and after several selection processes with the involvement of the community, the decision was made to use the Olivier Faurax logo. Since the release of Mageia 3, the logo has been used in a slightly revised form.

The first Mageia version was released on June 1, 2011.

Burglary in the registration service

On February 20, 2018, the developers announced that an unauthorized person had gained access to the server of the login service "Mageia Identity" and had published personal data of the users. A review of the data records revealed inconsistencies in the hashes of the passwords, but user names and e-mail addresses were authentic. The administrators reacted by resetting all passwords and announced that they would add additional rules to the system.

Special features of the distribution

Above all, the distribution should offer a low entry threshold and provides tools for system configuration that were already available in a similar way in Mandriva. The integrated "Mageia control center" offers a central graphical user interface with which the system hardware can be managed and software installed, updated and uninstalled.

Desktop environments

Mageia offers different desktop environments to choose from. KDE Plasma 5 and Gnome are offered as pre-selection for the desktop environment , which, in addition to Xfce , are also available as live ISOs for testing. The additional installation media, which are also available, offer a selection of other desktop environments in addition to those already mentioned. These desktop environments include MATE , Cinnamon , LXDE , LXQt (which Razor-qt has replaced since Mageia 5), Enlightenment (E17), Openbox , WindowMaker , Fluxbox , Fvwm2 and IceWM .

Package management

Mageia uses urpm as the standard package manager for installing RPM packages , which automatically resolves dependencies and is also used to update the system. The available selection of software is divided into the following repositories :

  • Core - Contains only free software
  • Nonfree - Contains free but proprietary software - mostly drivers from hardware manufacturers.
  • Tainted - Contains problematic software, some of which are under free license, but could potentially infringe patents and / or copyright laws in some countries. Tainted is therefore deactivated by default.

From version 6 DNF (including the new graphical user interface dnfdragora) is also supported. Fedora COPR and the openSUSE Build Service are also supported.

Release cycles, support and plans

It is planned to release a new version every nine months. This should then be supported for 18 months. An update from the respective previous version to a newer version (e.g. from 5 to 6) is supported via the installation media.

A port to the ARM architecture for devices like the Raspberry Pi 2 is in progress.

Boot and installation options

  • The DVD-ISO and the dual-arch ISO using the DrakX installer.
  • A live version for testing the system that can be installed on the hard drive.
  • Network installation ISO, where the complete system is downloaded from a Mageia mirror server or your own installation source.

Versions

version publication Kernel version annotation
Older version; no longer supported: 1 June 1, 2011 2.6.38 first version after the spin-off from Mandriva Linux
Older version; no longer supported: 2 May 22, 2012 3.3.6 second version
Older version; no longer supported: 3 May 19, 2013 3.8.13 third version
Older version; no longer supported: 4th 1st of February 2014 3.12.8 fourth version
Older version; no longer supported: 4.1 20th June 2014 3.12.21 Maintenance version with update of the installation media.
Older version; no longer supported: 5 19th June 2015 3.19.8 fifth version, u. a. with support for UEFI .
Older version; no longer supported: 5.1 2nd December 2016 4.4.32 Maintenance version with update of the installation media.
Older version; no longer supported: 6th July 16, 2017 4.9.35 sixth version, support for DNF, switch to KDE Plasma 5
Older version; no longer supported: 6.1 5th October 2018 4.14.70 Maintenance version with update of the installation media.
Older version; still supported: 7.0 1st July 2019 5.1.14
Current version: 7.1 16th July 2019 5.1.14 New set of installation media to resolve reinstallation issues related to AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs
Future version: 8.0 Support of the ARM platform
Legend:
Older version; no longer supported
Older version; still supported
Current version
Current preliminary version
Future version

distribution

Mageia was number two on Distrowatch in 2012, number four in 2013 and number six in 2014 on the distribution sites viewed. In December 2019, the distribution only ranked 21st. It was included on cover discs 148, 160 and 173 of the English magazine Linux Format . In the 03/2015 edition, Mageia 5 was available as a DVD insert in EasyLinux .

See also

Web links

Commons : Mageia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Something about Mageia 1. mageia.org, accessed March 31, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Donald Stewart: Mageia 7.1, Mageia 7 with Ryzen 3000 hardware support. mageia.org, July 16, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Andrea Müller: The week: Mageia is growing. heise.de, April 29, 2011, accessed on March 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Mandriva: Apparently new investors found
  5. ↑ Mageia - A new Linux distribution .
  6. ↑ Habemus logo! Mageia blog
  7. ↑ Official message about the server break-in
  8. ↑ Mageia 5 Release Notes
  9. ↑ a b c Announcement of Mageia 6, finally ready to shine! mageia.org, July 16, 2017, accessed July 22, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Mageia 6 Release Notes. mageia.org, November 26, 2017, accessed November 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ New clothes for Mageia: Preview of the ARM port is now available. mageia.org, June 23, 2011, accessed March 31, 2014 .
  12. ↑ ARMv5 port now online. ml.mageia.org, March 25, 2016, accessed March 25, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Mageia 2 release notes. mageia.org, February 8, 2013, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Mageia 3 Release Notes. mageia.org, April 15, 2014, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  15. ^ Carla Schroder: The Elegant Mageia Linux Prepares a New Release. (No longer available online.) Linux.com, May 3, 2013, archived from the original on October 17, 2014 ; accessed on November 9, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linux.com
  16. ↑ Jim Lynch: Mageia 3. (No longer available online.) Desktop Linux Reviews, October 14, 2013, archived from the original on February 9, 2014 ; accessed on March 26, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / desktoplinuxreviews.com
  17. ^ Mageia 4 Development. mageia.org, April 15, 2014, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Mageia 4 Release Notes. mageia.org, December 3, 2014, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  19. ↑ a b Rémi Verschelde: Pulling Mageia 4.1 out of the hat. mageia.org, June 20, 2014, accessed August 21, 2015 .
  20. ↑ a b Rémi Verschelde: Solid and strong and humming along - here's Mageia 5! mageia.org, June 19, 2015, accessed June 20, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Mageia 5 Release Notes. mageia.org, January 14, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  22. ↑ a b schultz: Happily Announcing Mageia 5.1. mageia.org, December 2, 2016, accessed December 3, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Donald Stewart: It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Mageia 6.1. mageia.org, October 5, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Donald Stewart: Magical (lucky?) Release number 7 has arrived. mageia.org, July 1, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Mageia at distrowatch.com (English)
  26. ↑ Search for text: Mageia
  27. ↑ easylinux.de