As stated in a previous blog post, we held our General Assembly and an extraordinary General Assembly on April 22.
You can read the report of that meeting here.
Unfortunately, too few Association members were present to reach the required quorum, so we could not have a valid vote about the needed changes to our constitution. We will therefore hold another extraordinary General Assembly on Thursday, May 7, 2026. For this second call, no quorum is required.
Now that voting for the Mageia 10 art competition has closed, we are delighted to present what will be the official desktop wallpaper for our new release. Many thanks to our contributor Davide Dallara for this excellent work.
In his words, our new desktop background depicts “our beloved Mageia, born of the entire team that makes this great distro possible, alongside Tux, the Linux mascot, and the bubbling cauldron that represents the Mageia development branch”.
As mentioned in the Art Contest announcement, we will be giving our winner a special mention on the Mageia 10 “Welcome Screen”.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the rest of our contributors who have contributed their work to make Mageia 10 look so unique!
We also have some lovely screensavers that you’ll be able to see when our new version is released!
All these images and our new desktop wallpaper are now part of the exclusive Mageia 10 design, for all our users to enjoy!
Greetings, community!
Mageia’s next General Assembly will be held online on Wednesday, the 22nd of April 2026 at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST).
It will also be an Extraordinary General Assembly, assuming at least one third of the Association members is present or represented.
Agenda:
1. Foreword by the president
2. Financial report by the treasurer and approvals
3. Executive committee management report
4. Budget allocation vote
As part of the Extraordinary Assembly, vote for:
5. the redefinition of members in the constitution, with direct application
6. fixing a typo in the constitution
7. numbering paragraphs in the constitution
8. updating an address in the constitution
Only Association members have the right to vote.
When too few members are present or represented, then the Extraordinary General Assembly will be postponed by at least two weeks.
More information can be found in a copy of the original invitation to the Association members.
If you are a Mageia contributor you can join the meeting, too. Just send a mail to the discuss mailing list of your team and we will tell you where we meet.
With the release of the first version candidate planned for the coming weeks, it’s time to finalize the artwork for Mageia 10. Before choosing the images, we’re excited to see all the submissions and the creativity of the participants. They will undoubtedly contribute to making Mageia 10 look fantastic. We thank everyone who has dedicated their time to this.
There will be two votes: one for backgrounds and one for screensavers. The main background will be chosen from the top 5, and the runners-up will be included as additional backgrounds. The screensavers will be selected from the 20 most suitable images.
The Mageia Council and the Atelier Team will choose the 5 best images for backgrounds and the 20 best for screensavers, ranking them from 1st to 5th place for backgrounds and from 1st to 20th for screensavers. Mageia’s design guidelines and colors will be taken into account for backgrounds. For screensavers, images that are well-cropped and create a good reflection are preferred.
The first-place winner for desktop background will receive a special mention on the Mageia 10 welcome screen.
The selected images for screensavers will have their author’s name watermarked in the bottom right corner.
Thanks again to everyone who participated in making Mageia shine!
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This is a slightly edited version of a post written by BAud.
Having been approved by the Council, the Mageia 10 beta1 ISOs are now available for public testing. All together about 26GB of ISOs have landed in the ../mageia/iso/10/ branch of our mirrors.
A lot of fixes and new updates have been added since Mageia 10 alpha1 arrived back in January.
Following version freeze, here are notable changes from Mageia 9:
The plan is still to have the official Mageia 10 release ready in April 2026.
Next steps include:
The Mageia 10 Beta1 set includes a comprehensive collection of installation formats:
The ISOs can be found here or in the ../mageia/iso/10/ directory of your favourite mirror.
Enjoy your testing _o/!
