Mageia 2 rc Free Software Installation Flavours

Note that these DVD and CD ISOs are made of Free Software exclusively. As a consequence, proprietary Wi-Fi and video drivers are not included. If you need WiFi or specific video drivers at install time, you should go with below LiveCDs instead. You may, if you will, add nonfree software repository after the installation.

Please note, there is a problem with notebooks using INTEL and AMD/ATI graphics. See the errata about this.

Up to 167 locales are supported: Deutsch, English, español, français, italiano, português, svenska, nederlands, polski, dansk, Русский and so much more! See the comprehensive list.

DVD
(3.4GB)
32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent
CD
(700MB)
dualarch, torrent

Mageia 2 rc Wired Network-based Installation CD

Download quickly (about 40 MB) and immediately boot into install mode from wired network or a local disk.

Pure Free Software 32bit 64bit
With added nonfree firmware
needed for some disc controllers, some network cards, etc.
32bit 64bit

Mageia 2 rc LiveCDs

GNOMEKDE
Europe 1 32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent
32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent

Included locales:

Europe 2 32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent
32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent

Included locales:

Africa, India 32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent
32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent

Included locales:

Asia 32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent
32bit, torrent
64bit, torrent

Included locales:

Download is approximately 700MB.

Release notes

You can check the release notes on the wiki: what's new, what to expect, what to test, how to report and contribute.

Release plan

  • rc: May 9th
  • final: May 22nd