Mageia 4 released

Following a slew of development builds, the final version of the Mageia operating system has finally drawn its first breath. Mageia 4, which started off as a fork of the Mandriva Linux distro, has arrived, and the spec sheet does boast of an impressive array of changes and improvements.

The official announcement read, “Right on time, and just in time for the first day of FOSDEM 2014, we have the great pleasure of announcing Mageia 4. We’re still having a grand time doing this together, and we hope you enjoy this release as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And if you’re at FOSDEM, come and help us celebrate!” The ‘new' OS is a GNU/ Linux-based ‘free' operating system that is supported by a non-profit organisation of elected contributors. With Mageia 4, developers seek to keep the OS that was originally a fork of Mandriva, alive!