[kwlug-disc] Announcing Mageia 6, finally ready to shine!

[Gary Walsh]

https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/announcing-mageia-6/

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of 
Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far! It comes with 
many new and exciting features, a new range of installation media and the 
usability and stability that can be expected from any Mageia release. See the 
Release Notes for extensive details.

Though Mageia 6’s development was much longer than anticipated, we took the 
time to polish it and ensure that it will be our greatest release so far. We 
thank our community for their patience, and also our packagers and QA team who 
provided an extended support for Mageia 5 far beyond the initial schedule.

Highlights of Mageia 6

The extra time that has gone into this release has allowed for many exciting 
additions, here are a few of the major additions and key features of Mageia 6:

    KDE Plasma 5 replaces the previous KDE SC 4 desktop environment
    The new package manager DNF is provided as an alternative to urpmi, 
enabling a great packaging ecosystem:
        Support for AppStream and thus GNOME Software and Plasma Discover
        Support for Fedora COPR and openSUSE Build Service to provide third 
party packages for Mageia 6 and later
        dnfdragora, a new GUI tool for package management inspired from 
rpmdrake
    Brand new icon theme for all Mageia tools, notably the Mageia Control 
Center
    Successful integration of the ARM port (ARMv5 and ARMv7) in the 
buildsystem, allowing to setup ARM chroots. Installation images are not 
available yet but will come in the future.
    GRUB2 as the default bootloader
    New Xfce Live images to test Mageia with a lighter weight environment
    While not a new feature, Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments 
and window managers (more details in an upcoming blog post)!




-- 
Gary