First Look at the Upcoming Mageia 9, Here’s What’s New
Mageia’s devs just released an alpha version of the upcoming Mageia 9, giving a good idea of what to expect from the final release.
Mageia is a Linux distribution forked in 2010 by the now-defunct Mandriva Linux. Unfortunately, Mageia has lost much of the legendary status that its distant progenitor Mandrake Linux once had.
Nonetheless, it and the other Mandrake’s surviving successor, OpenMandriva, keep its spirit and philosophy alive. Specifically, a desktop-centric and software-rich Linux distribution entirely focused on ease of use for new users.
Mageia 8, the distribution’s most recent stable version, was released less than two years ago, in February 2021. However, the Mageia team has surprised us with an alpha version of the upcoming Mageia 9 release.
So, given that two years is a long time in the Linux world, we are excited to see what has changed and what the new Mageia 9 will bring us.