July 16, 2017, Mageia 6, finally ready to shine, with the usability and stability that can be expected from any Mageia release!
Some of the key features of Mageia 6:
- New Xfce Live images to test Mageia with a lighter weight environment (32 or 64-bit)
- As before, Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments and window managers, many of which including Mageia new artwork (theme)
- Brand new icon theme for all Mageia tools, notably the Mageia Control Center
- Community: Mageia is a top-notch Linux distribution entirely made by and for its users who have a great time developing the distribution that they use daily --standing over the shoulders of all the Free Software projects that it distributes.
- The new package manager DNF is provided as an alternative to urpmi, enabling a great packaging ecosystem: Support for AppStream (and thus GNOME Software and Plasma Discover), Support for Fedora COPR and openSUSE Build Service (to provide third party packages for Mageia 6 and later), dnfdragora (new GUI tool for package management inspired from rpmdrake)
- Greatly improved UEFI support; GRUB2 as the default bootloader
- All of the ISOs are hybrid, so they can be used on both USB sticks and DVDs:
- 32-bit Classical Installer DVD
- 64-bit Classical Installer DVD
- GNOME 64-bit Live DVD
- Plasma 64-bit Live DVD
- Xfce 32-bit Live DVD
- Xfce 64-bit Live DVD
- Successful integration of the ARM port (ARMv5 and ARMv7) in the buildsystem, allowing to setup ARM chroots. Installation images are not available yet but will come in the future.
- Mageia 6 will be supported at least until 16th January 2019.
- Mageia 5 will still be supported for 3 months, with an expected end of life on 31st October 2017.
See [Release Notes](https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_6_Release_Notes) for extensive details and guide.
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