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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
- Mageia-5-alpha1-i586-DVD.iso
- dual arch DVD: one single iso with both 32 and 64bits
- Mageia-5-alpha1-dual-DVD.iso
- md5: f53f82f353dc6ee3dfe4385ed45d7198
- sha1: e2eedf09a7c7ef3a8c3c027bad5896b1a1ae6195
- Mageia-5-alpha1-dual-DVD.iso
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
- Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-en-i586-CD.iso
- 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
- Mageia-5-alpha1-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso
Major new features
Installation
Package management
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.
LXDE
RazorQt
Mate
Mate Desktop 1.8.1 is available with Alpha 1
Cinnammon
Office apps
- Alpha 1 comes with Libreoffice 4.2.4.2
Games
Education
Software Development
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.