In today's world, Mageia has captured the attention of millions of people around the world. Its impact covers different areas of society, from politics to popular culture. In this article, we will thoroughly explore the phenomenon of Mageia and analyze its influence on our daily lives. From its origins to its relevance today, we will dive into the most important details surrounding Mageia, and critically examine its role in our society. Through this comprehensive analysis, we hope to provide a more complete and detailed look at Mageia, and its significance in the modern world.
Unix-like operating system forked from Mandriva Linux
The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June 2011.
History
Mageia was created in 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux, by a group of former employees of Mandriva S.A. and several other members of the Mandriva community.
On September 2, 2010, Edge IT, one of the subsidiaries of Mandriva, was placed under liquidation process by the Tribunal de commerce in Paris; effective September 17, all assets were liquidated and employees were let go.
The next day, on September 18, 2010, some of these former employees, who were mostly responsible for the development and maintenance of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and several community members announced the creation of Mageia, with the support of many members of the community of developers, users and employees of Mandriva Linux.
Desktop environments
Mageia can use all major desktop environments. As was the case with Mandrake and Mandriva Linux, KDE is the main and the most used environment. End-users can choose from KDE and GNOME64-bitlive DVD editions, 32-bit and 64-bit Xfce live DVD editions, and any environment in the full DVD installation edition.
Mageia offers a very large repository of software, such as productivity applications and a large variety of games. It was the first Linux distribution in which MariaDB replaced Oracle's MySQL.
Development
Mageia was originally planned to be released on a nine-month release cycle, with each release to be supported for 18 months.
Actual practice has been to release a new version when the Mageia development community feels the new release is ready from quality and stability viewpoints.
The latest stable version is Mageia 9, released on 27 August 2023.
Version history
Version
Release date
End-of-life date
Kernel version
1
2011-06-01
2012-12-01
2.6.38.7
2
2012-05-22
2013-11-22
3.3.6
3
2013-05-19
2014-11-26
3.8.13
4
2014-02-01
2015-09-19
3.12.13
4.1
2014-06-20
3.12.21
5
2015-06-19
2017-12-31
3.19.8
5.1
2016-12-02
4.4.30
6
2017-07-16
2019-09-30
4.9.35
6.1
2018-10-05
4.14.70
7.0
2019-07-01
2021-06-30
5.1.14
7.1
2019-07-16
8
2021-02-26
2023-11-30
5.10.16
9
2023-08-27
3 months after its successor's release date
6.4
Legend: Old version, not maintained Older version, still maintainedCurrent stable version Future version
^Mageia. "Support for Mageia distribution". www.mageia.org. Mageia releases are supported at least for 18 months. Or a minimum of 3 months after the next release, whichever is longer