Six Key Features Coming in Mageia Linux 2.0 - danieloppoichest

Mandriva Linux is a venerable distribution with numerous advantages to recommend it, but it's no concealed that the software's French publisher has been facing unsentimental times.

An announcement is apparently imminent as to the company's financial future, merely in the meantime Mageia–the fork that was calved as a result of all the turbulence–is proceeding along nicely.

Mageia has gained considerable popularity since its creation in late 2010, and it now occupies the No. 6 office on DistroWatch's popularity rankings–particularly astonishing conferred that Mandriva is currently at No. 23.

The fashionable news is that a bring out candidate for Mageia 2.0 made its official launching on Wednesday, with a terminal release planned for May 22. Though information technology's not conscious for yield purposes, the RC software system is now available as a free download.

Want a sneak preview of what's advent? Here's a quick summing up of some of the highlights you'll find in this biotic community-run open source OS.

1. Four Screen background Environments

Included in Mageia 2 RC are a full four options for desktop environments, including KDE 4.8.2, GNOME 3.4.1, LXDE, and Sugar 0.95.

2. Sixfold Window Managers

Continuing the report of choice, Mageia 2 RC also comes packed with an assortment of window managers. Among them are Enlightenment (E17), IceWM, Openbox, Razor-qt, and Window Maker.

3. PulseAudio 2.0

Brand-current in that release nominee is a prerelease edition of the PulseAudio 2.0 networked sound server. "The primary reason for this inclusion is to take advantage of support in kernel 3.3 for headphone jack detection, such that the adjust audio path hindquarters be used for controlling output and adjusting volumes can be enabled automatically when pat," the Mageia developers explain. "This has been a long standing bugbear and a very visible (well audible!) problem for users." Mageia 2 final will include the final version of the software, they added.

4. Six Network Browsers

On the Web web browser front, Mageia 2 RC offers Firefox, Chromium, Epiphany, Opera, Konqueror, and Midori.

5. Four Mail Clients

On Mageia 2's chain armor front, meanwhile, in that respect's Thunderbird, Phylogeny, Kmail, and Claws Ring armor.

6. Subordinate the Hood

Regarding Mageia's base organisation, the stable release of Linux kernel 3.3.4 is included, American Samoa is unfluctuating glibc 2.14.1 and systemd for booting. Systemd offers a simpler boot cognitive operation and easier maintenance, but the option of keeping the on-line init arrangement will relieve be offered for those who favor information technology, Mageia's developers say. The CUPS printing system, lag, has been updated to version 1.5.2.