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Mageia 5 was finally released, after over a year in development. The biggest change is added support for UEFI, while other major changes include updating the Linux kernel to 3.19.8 and X.org to 1.16.4. Mageia is a five year-old fork of Mandriva formed by a group of Mandriva's former developers, and is known for the same user friendliness and polish. For those interested in the specifics of Mageia 5, you can check out the release notes here.
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Mageia 5 Released (Mandriva Fork)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:05AM
Well, at least Mageia 5 is free. They are having to give away Windows 10!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:12AM
Lord Free-Tard Stall-Man has finally done it. The market value of software is Zero.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:50AM
The market value of software is Zero.
Thus it always was. But certain dark forces meddled with the libertarian goodiness of the free market, and disguised the fact that the value of some software was less than zero. And now we see that they have to force people to take it for free. All that anti-piracy stuff was just a ploy to make us think that Micro$erft could be worth installing, if only we could get it for free! And unfortunately, some of our bretheren and sisteren fell for the ruse.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:37AM
I think it is great you want to revive the word sistren, and I fully appreciate English spelling can be idiosyncratic, but the usual spelling when it was in use was 'sistren', not 'sisteren'.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-female-equivalent-of-brethren [oxforddictionaries.com]
I'm all for using vocabulary that maintains useful distinctions. We might need an LGBTIQ alternative, though, to keep SJW's happy. Fellows, perhaps?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday June 21 2015, @07:13PM
but the usual spelling when it was in use was 'sistren', not 'sisteren'.
Thanks, but you see I was just trying to stay parallel to my mispelling of "brethren". Mageia is actually #7 on the Distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/ [distrowatch.com] Page Hit Ranking, and headed up! Might be worth an install just to try it out!
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheB on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:05AM
If build 10130 is anything to go by, it still is not worth the price.
Installed it tonight: clean install without any other programs.
- Start menu was slow, until it quit opening at all.
now it crashes instantly.
- Windows update finds new updates, but errors out downloading them(Error 0x80200056)
- Settings->Update & SECURITY->Windows Update->Advanced options clicking on Learn more does nothing, and gave an error once
- Powershell doesn't recognize a command. Gives a command not found for "Get-AppxPackage ..."
then I try just "Get-AppxPackage" and it finds it. I hit up arrow twice to retry the first command again and it works. WTF
I'm about to give up on this build. Every fix leads to more more errors. The only bug I've managed to work around is blocking port 139 so network discovery works.
I'm sure Windows 10 works for some people, but this build is not ready for launch on the 29th.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:15AM
You tell us all this just when I am at 95% downloaded? ARgh!! (Sorry, it's not your fault, you couldn't have known, and I should have.)