The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux.
Mageia 10 Alpha 1 was released today in working toward the official Mageia 10.0 release hopefully in April. Mageia 10 is offering live desktop images with options of KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce.
While for several years now most Linux distributions have been foregoing x86 32-bit (i686) install media and even phasing out many of their x86 32-bit packages, Mageia has not. Mageia 10 will continue to be offered for 32-bit i686 users in addition to x86_64. Mageia 10 though does bump the requirement from i586 to i686 CPUs.
Mageia 10 enhances its rescue system support, RPM 4.20 and DNF 4.18.1 for packages, the Mageia Control Center allows easily switching between PipeWire and PulseAudio, and many package updates. Mageia 10 is currently on a Linux 6.6 LTS kernel (though Linux 6.18 LTS is also planned) and ships with X.Org Server 21.1.13 as well as Wayland support.
More details and downloads for today’s Mageia 10 Alpha release via the announcement. Plenty more details on the Mageia 10 changes that are baking via the work-in-progress release notes.
