UEFI support in Mageia Linux has been perfected

Apr 27, 2015 01:30 GMT  ·  By

After several delays, the Mageia development team, through Rémi Verschelde, announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the Release Candidate version of the upcoming Mageia 5 Linux operating system, due for release sometime in May 2015.

The biggest feature of the Mageia 5 RC (Release Candidate) operating system is support for UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) machines in the installer, which has been finalized and works out of the box. Therefore, the Mageia team is proud to inform its users that they will be able to install the Mageia 5 distribution on their personal computers effortlessly, using either the classical installer or the Live CDs.

Mageia’s developers have been hard at work during this release cycle to add UEFI support to our installer," says Rémi Verschelde. "We are now proud to announce that you can install Mageia on UEFI systems fairly easily, using either our Live media or the classical installer (except from the DualDVD which does not support UEFI)."

The DrakX installer received numerous other features

In addition to UEFI support, the DrakX installer of the Mageia 5 Linux operating system received numerous other features, including better RAID support, improved GRUB 2 integration, more debugging and logging features for both urpmi and the installer, as well as fixes for graphical issues associated with the evolution of the GTK+ 3 GUI toolkit.

Last but not least, Mageia 5 RC comes with Linux kernel 3.19.4, systemd 217, Perl 5.20.1, RPM 4.12.0.1, KDE Applications 4.14.3, Qt 4.8.6 and 5.4.0, GNOME 3.14.3, MATE 1.8.0, Cinnamon 2.4.5, LibreOffice 4.4.2, and the LXQt desktop environment. The distribution also provides better support for Intel Broadwell HD graphics.

Download Mageia 5 RC (Release Candidate) right now via Softpedia. This version is distributed as Live CDs with the KDE and GNOME desktop environments. However, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release version that contains unresolved issues, which means that you shouldn't install on production machines.

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