Mageia-3-RC-i586-DVD

This is the release candidate.

Note: Unetbootin should not be used to copy the iso image to a usb drive. To dump a Mageia installation ISO on a USB stick, you may try one of several dd-based tools.

The DVD ISO can be used to install KDE4, GNOME or LXDE, i.e. these are the desktop environments available on the disc itself. The drakx installer includes the capability of adding the online Mageia repositories during the installation, which means you can install even more packages than those available on the disc.

The Mageia 2 DVD ISO exclusively contains free-open-source software, so you won't find any nonfree software on it (e.g. the nVidia or ATI proprietary graphics cards drivers or firmware for wifi cards... etc). However, as mentioned above, you can add the online repositories during the installation and you can reconfigure your hardware at the Summary stage (towards the end of the installation) to install the nonfree software needed for your hardware.

For Mageia 3 and later, you'll be given the choice to add nonfree software during install, so you won't need to take the extra steps mentioned above.

The DVD ISO comes in two editions:

i586 (32bit)
x86_64 (64bit)

Note: the 64-bit version will not work on 32-bit hardware.

https://www.mageia.org/

Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.

Our mission: to build great tools for people.

Further than just delivering a secure, stable and sustainable operating system, the goal is to set up a stable and trustable governance to direct collaborative projects.

To date, Mageia:
-started in September 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux,
-gathered hundreds of careful individuals and several companies worldwide, who coproduce the infrastructure, the distribution itself, documentation, delivery and support, using Free Software tools;
-released three major stable releases in June 2011, in May 2012 and in in May 2013.