Mageia | 2 release candidate

Download and test Mageia 2 rc

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 and dual arch CD

• Mageia 2 rc 32bit DVD, torrent
• Mageia 2 rc 64bit DVD, torrent
• Mageia 2 rc dual CD, torrent

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.

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

	GNOME	KDE
Europe 1	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent
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Europe 2	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent
Included locales:
Africa, India	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent
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Asia	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent	32bit, torrent 64bit, torrent
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Download is approximately 700MB.