The Mageia distribution community released the OS today system Mageia 7 Linux, a major release that brings updated packages and many new features for fans of a distribution that originated from the Mandriva project.
Almost two years after the start of development, the Mageia 7 Linux operating system is available from today for λήψη and brings many of the latest technologies of GNU/Linux and open source software. The new Mageia is powered by one of the latest Linux 5.1 kernels and features the latest Mesa 19.1 graphics stack.
The new version of Mageia 7 also has new updated desktop environments and window managers, but is available in three main desktop versions KDE Plasma 5.15.4, GNOME 3.32 and Xfce 4.14pre.
It supports Wayland and hybrid graphics cards and offers an extended collection games.
"As with the Mageia distribution, this release wouldn't have happened without the help of our amazing community who give their time to do what we do," says Donald Stewart. "
So a big thank you to everyone who helped package, develop, test and create QAs across all packages and ISOs, as well as to the translators, the documentation team, the sysadmins, the artists and everyone who helped traffic.
The new Mageia distribution now features a refreshed welcome screen that is much easier to use for novice users. Includes some of the latest and greatest applications, such as Mozilla Firefox 67 and Chromium 73, LibreOffice 6.2.3 and rpm 4.14.2 package manager.
Better support for ARM devices, especially for AArch64 (ARM64) and ARMv7 architectures, which now have all core packages. DNF, Mageia's default package manager, now offers compressed Zchunk metadata support to help you save bandwidth when receiving updates.
You can download the new Mageia distribution directly for 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. The operating system is distributed as live ISO with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce graphical environments, as well as the classic installation images for 32-bit and 64-bit computers.
See for more information release announcement and the news releasenotes
- Mageia-7-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso 2,888MB, SHA512, signature, torrent sites
- Mageia-7-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso 2,573MB, SHA512, signature, torrent sites
- Mageia-7-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso 2,343MB, SHA512, signature, torrent sites
- Mageia-7-x86_64.iso 4,241MB, SHA512, signature, torrent sites
