Final alpha release for Mageia 4 is ready for tests

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

As the alpha-ship leaves port for it’s final voyage, we are very happy to announce the final alpha release for Mageia 4! There is still some work to do to make it stable and finalise feature, but this will be done during beta releases.

We are now 4 months from the final release. This may seem like a long time but, as always, this will pass very quickly and your feedback and bug reports are absolutely essential now to let us work on it and improve your favourite distribution.

Join us and find more information here:

Enjoy this new release!

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9 Responses to Final alpha release for Mageia 4 is ready for tests

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  3. Franck says:
    October 3, 2013 at 6:09 am

    I’m really disappointed to see that it is still impossible to install flawlessly on an UEFI/GPT based system. Mageia is really behind all other major distribution on this. This is a pity.

    • MrsB says:
      October 3, 2013 at 7:09 am

      Thanks for your comment. Work is ongoing on UEFI support. It requires quite major changes to the installer, which have just begun. It will require people to test it though at the various development stages. Please remember that Mageia is a community distribution with no full time developers and changes are made by people getting involved.

      If you’d like to help and get more involved yourself you can find details of the various teams here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Contributing

      • Franck says:
        October 3, 2013 at 11:00 am

        Sorry if my comment seemed a bit harsh. I know that time is running and people are busy. I just have the impression that recent efforts are put on candy aspects instead of on real showstoppers. But this is just the opinion of someone who bought two new laptops for his children and couldn’t install his dear Mageia on them because of those issues.
        I ended up with Open Suse which is neat, but still not my favourite.

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