Documentation
Ye can see exeestin documentation here. Ye can hae ae look at oor Wiki n aw.
Updates
Updates ar available fer Mageia 8 n Mageia 9 (securitie n bug fixes) n publeshed regulairlie.
Ye can instaw thir fae the Mageia Control Center.
Ye can subscreebe tae oor updates-announce annooncment leet tae be taud o thir.
Lifecycle
Mageia releases ar supportit fer at least 18 mooths. Or a minimum of 3 months after the next release, whichever is longer
- Mageia 9 will be supported until March 31st, 2025
- Mageia 8 will be supported until November 30th, 2023
- Mageia 7 was supported until June 30th, 2021.
- Mageia 6 was supported until September 30th, 2019.
- Mageia 5 was supported until December 31st, 2017. More details and advice are available on our wiki page and from our blog.
- Mageia 4 was supported until September 19th, 2015.
- Mageia 3 was supported until November 26th, 2014.
- Mageia 2 wis supportit ontil November 22nd, 2013.
- Mageia 1 wis supportit ontil 1st Dizember, 2012.
Communitie Support
Gif ye need heelp, information or directions aboot the Mageia distreebution that ye instawed or aboot the wairk, ye can ettle tae reach us throoch:
- Communitie support forums in Ingils – see ither Mageia communitie forums fer support in yer leid;
- IRC channels where you can discuss live with other Mageia users and contributors: #mageia or other localized channels;
- oor Wiki (still rouch the nou, we'r wairkin oan it!);
- oor mailin-leets;
- local events: follae oor blog n calendair.
Profeessional Support
Mageia.Org dis no gie or endorse commercial/profeessional support or ither services aroond the distreebution. But thaur's organisations that provide sic services n mair.
Please check the commercial venders leet
Haurdware Needins
Each release of Mageia software runs on most i586 and x86_64 computer systems available at the release time.
Ye can follae this haurdware needins leet:
- Processer: onie AMD, Intel or VIA processer;
- Memory (RAM): 512MB minimum, 2GB recommendit; For headless systems that minimum can be usable. For low memory intensive programs and light graphical Desktop Environments like Xfce the minimum is 1GB. For more feature rich like Gnome and Plasma the minimum is 2GB.
- Storage (HDD or SSD): 5GB for a minimal installation, 20GB for a casual setup; This includes a few GB for user files. If you need more than you should take that in account too. Custom installations on less space are possible but this requires intermediate linux knowledge.
- Bootable USB port or optical drive capable of using media with a storage capacity of at least 4GB used for installation. Smaller media capacity is used for network installation, but a reliable Internet connection is needed. More information at downloads page.
- Grapheecs caird: onie AMD/ATI, Intel, Matrox, Nvidia, SiS or VIA grapheecs caird;
- Soond caird: onie AC97, HDA or Sound Blaster soond caird.
Fer some kynds o haurdware (Wi-Fi chipsets, 3D grapheecs cairds) tae wairk richt, speceefic firmware or saffware micht be needit, this is available in ae specefic oanline repositrie cawed "nonfree" (leairn mair).
We micht set ae hardware compatibilitie leet/directerie up as well as ae haurdware certification process; but that's still in the plannin stage. Feel free tae jyn/contact oor Wab n QA teams gif ye'd lyk tae heelp in this regaird.
Bug Reports
Ye can check n report bugs oan oor Bugzilla (bugs.mageia.org).