for writing any kinds of reviews.
It is a testing release for finding bugs, to look out for important missing packages, a platform for further development leading to the beta stage and finally our first official release planned in February 2014. More info about Mageia 4 Development.
You can download it by selecting your mirror from http://mirrors.mageia.org/ and going into iso/cauldron or from http://www.mageia.org/4/ directly (easiest way).
Work was done on RAID management during installation. This was quite buggy in previous releases and should now be usable at last.
RPM has been upgraded to 4.11.0. Urpmi has a new option --deploops that enables to debug circular dependencies.
Tools were ported from usermode to polkit for authentication.
On first boot, finish-install will no longer remove radeon-firmware or any network related firmwares as we don't know when some hw gets plugged that needs it.
Drakboot now write and read back the default entry when using Grub2.
syslinux has been updated to 6.02. This allows to get rid of very old patches and then use upstream version.
Mageia 4 Beta 1 still comes with GRUB as a default. But we also provide GRUB2.
Mageia has switched to the network interface naming scheme available in systemd v197+ to ensure they are predictable. A lot of bugs have been fixed to improve integration. We are looking for any feedback that could help to improve more if needed.
MageiaWelcome is now proposed as a default when opening a session in graphical environments. The main goal is to help new comers on Mageia but also give some information about the community and the project.
The X.org server has been updated from 1.3 to 1.4.4.
KDE 4.11.2 (stable release) is now available in beta 1.
GNOME environment is also provided. currently 3.10.1.
Mate is now inside the repositories.
Cinnamon is now inside the repositories.
Blender 2.69 is there, with it's nice new features.
New artwork is not yet integrated in this early stage of Mageia 4.
You can find our bugzilla here, but please read the Errata before reporting any bugs. If you don't already have a Mageia account, you can create one on https://identity.mageia.org/. If you don't know, see how to report a bug.
This page was last modified on 16 March 2019, at 18:33.