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- This release is an alpha, that is, unstable, and primarily aimed at technical people - for identifying and fixing bugs – - PLEASE DO NOT use it in production context or for review.

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

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+ This is a beta release – + PLEASE DO NOT use it for production.

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LiveCDs, for a live test or full install

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Alpha3 LiveCDs still have blocking issues; will be available later.

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

Included locales: - German (de), Greek (el), English (Australia) (en_AU), English (Canada) (en_CA), English (en_GB), English (Ireland) (en_IE), English (New-Zealand) (en_NZ), English (American) (en_US), English (South Africa) (en_ZA), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR), Turkish (tr) -

- - - Europe 2 - 32bit, - torrent - 32bit, - torrent - - -

Included locales: - Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Danish (da), English (American) (en_US), Estonian (et), Finnish (Suomi) (fi), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Lithuanian (lt), Latvian (lv), Norwegian Bokmaal (nb), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Swedish (sv), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Uzbek (cyrillic) (uz@cyrillic) -

- - - Africa, India - 32bit, - torrent - 32bit, - torrent - - -

Included locales: - Afrikaans (af), Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Assamese (as), Berber (ber), Bengali (bn), English (American) (en_US), Hausa (ha), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Igbo (ig), Kannada (kn), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Punjabi (gurmukhi) (pa_IN), Tamil (ta), Tswana (tn), Tsonga (ts), Venda (ve), Xhosa (xh), Yoruba (yo), Zulu (zu)

- - - Asia - 32bit, - torrent - 32bit, - torrent - - -

Included locales: - English (American) (en_US), Indonesian (id), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Thai (th), Vietnamese (vi), Chinese Simplified (zh_CN), Chinese Traditional (zh_TW) -

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Download is approximately 700MB.

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Full, exclusively Free Software DVDs

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Note that these DVD 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 above LiveCDs instead. - You may, if you will, add nonfree software repository after the installation.

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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.

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Wired network-based install CD

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Good to download (about 40 MB) and boot quickly into install mode - from wired network or local disk.

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Download and test Mageia 2 beta1

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

+ Major features planned for the final release notably include:

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  • KDE 4.8.x, GNOME 3.4.x, Sugar 0.95,
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  • glibc 2.14.1, kernel 3.3, systemd,
    • +
  • MariaDB 5.5, PostgreSQL 8.4.10, 9.0.6 and 9.1.2,
    • +
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  • upgradable from Mageia 1 (which was from Mandriva 2010.0 and 2010.1)
    • +
  • stable, secure, maintained,
    • +
  • and many others.
    • +
+

Major benefits from Mageia 2:

+
    +
  • .
    • +
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+
+

Full, exclusively Free Software DVDs

+ +

Note that these DVD 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 above LiveCDs instead. + You may, if you will, add nonfree software repository after the installation.

+

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.

+
+
+

Wired network-based install CD

+ +

Good to download (about 40 MB) and boot quickly into install mode + from wired network or local disk.

+
+
+

LiveCDs, for a live test or full install

+

beta1 LiveCDs still have blocking issues; will be available later.

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

Included locales: + German (de), Greek (el), English (Australia) (en_AU), English (Canada) (en_CA), English (en_GB), English (Ireland) (en_IE), English (New-Zealand) (en_NZ), English (American) (en_US), English (South Africa) (en_ZA), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR), Turkish (tr) +

+ + + Europe 2 + 32bit, + torrent + 32bit, + torrent + + +

Included locales: + Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Danish (da), English (American) (en_US), Estonian (et), Finnish (Suomi) (fi), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Lithuanian (lt), Latvian (lv), Norwegian Bokmaal (nb), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Swedish (sv), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Uzbek (cyrillic) (uz@cyrillic) +

+ + + Africa, India + 32bit, + torrent + 32bit, + torrent + + +

Included locales: + Afrikaans (af), Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Assamese (as), Berber (ber), Bengali (bn), English (American) (en_US), Hausa (ha), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Igbo (ig), Kannada (kn), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Punjabi (gurmukhi) (pa_IN), Tamil (ta), Tswana (tn), Tsonga (ts), Venda (ve), Xhosa (xh), Yoruba (yo), Zulu (zu)

+ + + Asia + 32bit, + torrent + 32bit, + torrent + + +

Included locales: + English (American) (en_US), Indonesian (id), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Thai (th), Vietnamese (vi), Chinese Simplified (zh_CN), Chinese Traditional (zh_TW) +

+ + + +

Download is approximately 700MB.

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Release calendar

+

Here are the next steps before the final release of Mageia 2:

+ +
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  • beta1: February 21st
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  • beta2: March 15th
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  • rc: April 10th
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  • final: May 3rd
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