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[New Torrent] Mageia-6 Plasma 64-bit Live DVD

Started by lliseil, July 16, 2017, 01:56:03 PM

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lliseil

July 16, 2017, Mageia 6, finally ready to shine, with the usability and stability that can be expected from any Mageia release!

Though Mageia 6's development was much longer than anticipated, they took the time to polish it and ensure that it will be their greatest release so far. Thank to their community for their patience, and also to their packagers and QA team.
                                                                                 
Some of the key features of Mageia 6:                                            
                                                                                 
- KDE Plasma 5 replaces the previous KDE SC 4 desktop environment                
- 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.

lliseil

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