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Mageia 5 Released (Mandriva Fork)

posted by takyon on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:45AM   Printer-friendly

Celestial writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheB on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:05AM

    by TheB (1538) on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:05AM (#199001)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:15AM (#199003)

    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.)