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Introduction
Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Our mission: to build great tools for people.
Beyond just delivering a secure, stable and sustainable operating system, the goal is also to become and maintain a credible and recognized community in the free software world.
To learn more about the organization, license, our Code of Conduct, policies, values, history and more, please visit our about page.
Community
- Reasons to join the Mageia Community:
- The Mageia project is a lively community, open to everyone. We welcome and value all users, regardless of individual knowledge or contribution.
- It's the best way to learn to use Mageia and enjoy all its features.
- It's the best way to help, and seek help, with questions or problems in forums, mailing lists, IRC, Mageia-bugzilla, wiki, blog, in English or other languages.
- Mageia is the French nonprofit organization, that organizes the development and distribution of Mageia and offers, along with additional communities of users of other languages, several tools for users to discuss collectively and publicly, on the Internet, diverse issues related to the use of Mageia.
- The participation of everyone is important, therefore:
- Mageia is free software, so the more people using, testing, and collaborating - the better their development.
- Free software can be used without restriction or obligation to the user, but also has high costs for development and updating. Therefore, it is the model of "collaborative development" that allows for the reduction of development costs and accelerated evolution of free software.
- This free software is for anyone to use, and is legally protected by the GNU GPL, and therefore has been consolidating since its creation in 1989 by Richard Stallman.
- Free software is one collaborating with a Linux distribution of your choice, you collaborate with all indirectly. Mageia's doors are open. Join us and participate in this great community.
- Ways to participate:
- Joining the forums, mailing lists, IRC, wiki.
- Reporting any bugs you find Mageia-bugzilla or, depending on the case, in KDE-Bugzilla, GNOME-GitLab, or in the official websites shown in the respective applications.
- Collaborating with the various activities of Mageia, integrating with one of the Mageia teams.
- Using and supporting Mageia and suggesting improvements.
- Donations, however small, are always welcome.
Download
Mageia offers different ISO images files for download via direct download link and torrent.
- Classic Installation
- The Classical ISO is the traditional way to install Mageia directly. Take a look at the complete documentation for this installer. Up to 167 locales are supported. These ISOs contains Free Software and some proprietary drivers. You will be asked of which kind of Software you want to install. The installer includes the capability of adding the online Mageia repositories during the installation, which means you can install even more packages than those available on the ISO. For 32 and 64bit, size of the ISOs is about 4.1GB.
- Live Media
- Live ISO's let you try Mageia without installation. You can run Mageia directly from a DVD or USB device, and try it using one of the graphical user interfaces such as GNOME, Plasma or Xfce. If you are happy with the Mageia experience, you can then install it onto your hard drive from the Live media. Use LiveDVDs for fresh new installs ONLY. DO NOT use these LiveDVDs to upgrade from the prior Mageia release! Use a classical installation and see upgrade guide. For LiveDVDs, size of the ISOs is about 2.2 - 2.8GB.
- Network Installation
- Download quickly and immediately boot into install mode from wired network or a local disk. Have a look in the wiki to get a list of possibilities. Size of the ISOs is about 120 MB.
Graphical environment
Mageia 8 has more than 20 desktop environments and window managers packaged. In essence, making Mageia a good choice for those who desire a customizable graphical user interface.
Mageia lifecycle lifetime policy
- Mageia releases are supported at least for 18 months (Support Lifecycle)
- After a new version is released, the former version is supported for 3 month more
Testing
- Why testing before you install?
- May be useful to know the usability and general aspects of the distro
- To verify the compatibility of Mageia with the machine's hardware (especially video card, audio and network / wireless). The proper functioning of some hardware may require specific configurations and/or installing additional software packages, so the suggestion is to discuss the questions that arise in the forums, mailing lists, IRC, etc.
- How?
- Running the Mageia Live Media on a computer without installing
- Installing a Mageia DVD or Mageia liveCD on a virtual machine like Virtualbox in any other OS
Install
Before installing Mageia visit the wiki and know the supporting documentation for each release:
Each step of the installation is described precisely in the documentation in 27 languages. If there are additional questions or suggestions don't hesitate to contact the community via the forums, mailing lists or IRC.
Use
- Do some general settings depending of the desktop environment used according to your likings
- Setup network/internet. This is most likely already done whilst you install Mageia
- Install and configure media
- Install and remove software (applications) --> (See list of applications)
- Set your prefered main applications for e.g. browsing, emailing, office work, ...
- Choose several useful applications for Mageia, in MageiaDB databose or from Linux Package Search
- Report bugs in Mageia-Bugzilla
