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Here is the first alpha of Mageia 5 (released on Jul. 8th). 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 December 2014. More info about Mageia 5 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/5/ directly (easiest way).

Classical installer

• 2 DVDs 32 and 64 bits
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-i586-DVD.iso
    • md5: 5e7c908a215023f85fa02348c41975f6
    • sha1: 3a6812c98d95961cc001f6ea2ee5e295cf9e6f87
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-x86_64-DVD.iso
    • md5: 7a8600604ab63fc800c50d72de76c17d
    • sha1: 86807a65d7f49cc6ac35814eb643a4da5b5ec573

• dual arch DVD: one single iso with both 32 and 64bits
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-dual-DVD.iso
    • md5: f53f82f353dc6ee3dfe4385ed45d7198
    • sha1: e2eedf09a7c7ef3a8c3c027bad5896b1a1ae6195

Live

• 2 Live CDs 32bits only in English
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-en-i586-CD.iso
    • md5: b1af3baac5bccb80ea9c175579f3f0ea
    • sha1: 31925dbaf168fb0bab6761dfb3b0441f1331facd
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso
    • md5: a5a245a230b0a4d968fafb3dffbd5545
    • sha1: 5cb902bd87b094311a56d61e7f4148e5fee98cea

• 4 LiveDVDs (32 and 64bits) multilingual
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso
    • md5: 38cf905b386832c48b2314eca7b11a68
    • sha1: e7e07d210a8c8f764c21c90b32515005637a4920
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveDVD-KDE4-i586-DVD.iso
    • md5: 142b94e77605e8aebd8e5b4e2bc80875
    • sha1: b944a357499a43f8f979e21d4598ce3291fc6fac
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso
    • md5: bb9b353e7f6b857aeab9f657861ebdd9
    • sha1: 9c0da5e562621271cab694dbe5535bdbc72bde77
  • Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso
    • md5: cda14e5649856cc008383fd3ff19c4b6
    • sha1: 0d3baa94ec8949250b622dde7642db7e138a9564

Major new features

Base system

kernel

Alpha 1 comes with 3.15.2 kernel inside

systemd

Alpha 1 comes with 208-15 version

Perl

Alpha 1 comes with 5.20.0 version

Graphical environments

KDE

KDE 4.13.2 is now available in alpha 1.
Qt 4.8.6

GNOME

GNOME environment is also provided. currently 3.13.3.

Mate

Mate Desktop 1.8.1 is available with Alpha 1

Office apps

• Alpha 1 comes with Libreoffice 4.2.4.2

Artwork and design

New artwork is not yet integrated in this early stage of Mageia 5.

Known issues

See Errata page

Dropped packages

• mail-notification
• task-nagios

Tests wanted!

If not done yet, you can confirm or invalidate the currently reported (by the QA or other people) bugs: (see here )

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.