14 DAY TRIAL // The Mageia community has released today the Mageia 7 Linux operating system, a major version that brings up-to-date components and several new features for fans of this Mandriva derivative.
Almost two years in the work, the Mageia 7 Linux operating system is now available to download and comes packed with numerous of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software. Mageia 7 is powered by one of the most recent kernels from the Linux 5.1 series and features the latest Mesa 19.1 graphics stack.
Mageia 7 also features a wide range of desktop environments and window managers, but it's shipped in three main editions with the KDE Plasma 5.15.4, GNOME 3.32, and Xfce 4.14pre desktops. Support for Wayland and hybrid graphics cards has been enhanced as well in Mageia 7, which comes with an extended collection of games.
"As with everything to do with Mageia, this release would not have happened without the help of our amazing community that gives their time to make everything we do possible," said Donald Stewart. "So, a huge hand is due to everyone that helped with packaging, development, testing, and doing QA on all of the packages and ISO’s, as well as to the translators, documentation team, sysadmins, artists, and everyone else that has helped to bring this release together."
Better ARM support, other improvements
Mageia 7 now features a revamped Welcome screen that's easier to user for newcomers to this Mandriva-derived GNU/Linux distribution, which features some of the latest and greatest application, including the Mozilla Firefox 67 and Chromium 73 web browsers, as well as the LibreOffice 6.2.3 office suite and the rpm 4.14.2 package manager.
With the Mageia 7 release, support for ARM devices was dramatically improved as well, especially for AArch64 (ARM64) and ARMv7 architectures, which now have core packages built. Under the hood, DNF, Mageia's default package management system, got Zchunk-compressed metadata support to help you save bandwidth when fetching updates.
You can download Mageia 7 right now for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The operating system is distributed as live ISO images with the KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce desktop environments, the latter supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit computers, as well as classical installer images for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.