The third Beta of Mageia 2 is now available for download and testing!

Apr 19, 2012 11:21 GMT  ·  By

Anne Nicolas announced yesterday, April 28th, the immediate availability for download of the third and last Beta release of the upcoming Mageia 2 operating system.

Mageia 2 Beta 3 is powered by Linux kernel 3.3.1, improving support for Xen virtualization, addition of a new iSCSI stack or NFC, and the Tomoyo framework.

"For some days the suspense was at its height. We are now happy to deliver this beta 3 release which is the very last beta version for Mageia2. Lots of work has been done on release blocking bugs, final design is nearly all integrated and we now wait for all your feedback." - said Anne Nicolas on the official announcement.

Click here to see the Mageia 2 Beta 3 GNOME 3.4 screenshot tour!

Click here to see the Mageia 2 Beta 3 KDE4 screenshot tour!

Highlights of Mageia 2 Beta 3:

· Linux kernel 3.3.1; · KDE Software Compilation 4.8.2; · GNOME 3.4 desktop environment; · glibc 2.14.1; · dracut, an initrd creator; · Implementation of systemd for a faster and simpler boot process; · PulseAudio 2.0 Preview; · CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) 1.5.2; · Added NoMachine NX libraries for remote server applications; · Lastest LXDE packages; · Sugar 0.95; · Pencil-Planner 0.4.4b; · Amarok 2.5.0; · Cantata 0.3.0; · Kdenlive 0.8.2.1; · MPlayer (including GNOME MPlayer, KMPlayer, SMPlayer, and mplayer-gui interfaces); · VLC Media Player; · Xine (including xine-ui and Kaffeine interfaces); · Acetoneiso 2.3; · Kanyremote 5.13; · Kid3 2.0.1; · Konvertible 1.0.1; · Koverartist 0.7.6; · Marave 0.7; · MariaDB 5.5; · Apache 2.2.22; · Postfix 2.8.9; · Drupal 7.12; · Mediawiki 1.16.5; · GCC 4.6.3; · Python 2.7.2 and 3.2.2; · Perl 5.14.2; · Ruby 1.8.7; · PHP 5.3.10; · OpenJDK 1.7.0.1; · Sun Java 1.6.0.26.

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Mageia 2 Beta 3 KDE4 Live CD
The following window manager are also including in Mageia 2 Beta 3: dwm, scrotwm, i3, pekwm, AfterStep, Awesome, Enlightenment E17, FVWM2, IceWM, Openbox, Razor-qt, and WindowMaker.

Mageia 2 Beta 3 is distributed as installable DVD ISO images, a dual Arch CD, and ten Live CD ISO images with the GNOME and KDE4 desktop environments, all available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

The Release Candidate of Mageia 2 will see the light of day in about two weeks, at the end of April or beginning of May 2012.

Download Mageia 2 Beta 3 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.