Mageia | 2 beta1

Download and test Mageia 2 beta1

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:

• KDE 4.8.x, GNOME 3.4.x, Sugar 0.95,
• glibc 2.14.1, kernel 3.3, systemd,
• MariaDB 5.5, PostgreSQL 8.4.10, 9.0.6 and 9.1.2,


• 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

• Mageia 2 beta1 32bit DVD, torrent
• Mageia 2 beta1 64bit DVD, torrent

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

• 32bit
• 64bit

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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