Mageia 8 Beta 2 Released With A Platter Of Updated Packages

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mageia 8 Beta 2 Released With A Platter Of Updated Packages

Mageia 8 Beta 1 came all the way back in August while ahead of Christmas that has now been succeeded by a second beta release for this Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mageia-8-Beta-2

[Vistaus]

Time to grab your Phoronix bingo cards again!

* Is Mageia better than other distros?
* I've used Mandrake and/or Mandriva and I loved feature xyz
* GNOME vs KDE as default DE
* ...

[f0rmat]

Time to grab your Phoronix bingo cards again!

* Is Mageia better than other distros?
* I've used Mandrake and/or Mandriva and I loved feature xyz
* GNOME vs KDE as default DE
* ...

Mandrake was the first linux distro I ever used...back in 04 and 05. I really liked it then. Maybe if my work allows, I will give Mageia a ride just for old times sake - after it is finalized.

[gukin]

I've been using Mageia/Mandriva/Mandrake since Redhat 7.1(in the 90's that is) came out with its doomsday kernel that locked after 34 days.

Mageia has kept a great balance between new-and-hot and old-and stable. Steam works beautifully, mesa has been kept up to date, their kernel support has erred towards stability and when I submit a bug report they respond within hours if not minutes. Their developers are as seasoned as the distro and really know what they're doing.

I guess the strongest thing about Mageia is their adherence to releasing a dependable, stable, and functional distribution with no surprises. Kudos to the Mageia team, when Mageia 6 was having "puberty problems", they kept Mageia 5 supported until 6 was really ready without compromise.

I've been using Mageia/Mandriva/Mandrake for almost 20 years and I've grown a genuine affection for the developers and the distribution. I know that Mageia isn't a featured distribution on Phoronix but I do appreciate Michael for advertising the progress with it.

[Sonadow]

Mageia has kept a great balance between new-and-hot and old-and stable.

There is no such balance. Mageia is as bleeding edge as Fedora, or most just one minor version away from upstream.

The only thing that separates most bleeding-edge distributions from Fedora is that Fedora is not afraid to test and experiment with new frameworks and backends (like Pipewire replacing Pulseaudio) while other bleeding-edge distributions maintain up-to-date packages but stay with known configurations and setups.

Also, the ISO and the installation do not support Secure Boot; it does not have its own signing key and it also does not use the LF's shim.

[coats]

I've been using Mageia/Mandriva/Mandrake since Redhat 7.1...

Mageia has kept a great balance between new-and-hot and old-and stable...

For me: since RedHat 4.2. screwed up its upgrade... Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia s the best developer-worstation distro for my workflow that I've found.