Mageia 5 distribution based on Mandriva Linux

Mageia is a free operating system , based on and is supported by the non-profit organization Mageia.Org.

The name of the Mageia distribution comes from the Greek word "Magic". It is a reference to Mandrake Wizard, which has been used as the initial name of the Mandriva Linux distribution.mageia

So the distribution of Mageia:

  • began in September of 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux,
  • has brought together hundreds of friends and a few companies from around the world who contribute to infrastructure, distribution, documentation, availability and support, using Free Software tools,
  • has released five major fixed versions in June of 2011, May 2012 and May of 2013, in February of 2014 and in June of 2015.

A new feature of Mageia 5 that is worth mentioning is UEFI support, which means it's now even easier to install it in modern .

Download Mageia 5

Mageia distribution is provided as ISO image files and must be copied into voids CD or DVD discs.
All ISO can run from one USB driver.

If you do not prefer one of the above ways, with CD-DVDs, or USB creation because you want to install on a VM, you can download the Live DVD of the distribution.

http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/iso/5/torrents/Mageia-5-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.torrent

Download different files

http://www.mageia.org/el/downloads/

mageia-forum  Greek Community Forum - The forum of the Greek community

mageia-rpm  Rpos Repository

openerp-mageia Mageia OpenERP ISO LiveCD

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