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A New Development Build Of Mageia 6 Emerges

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 6 March 2017 at 06:02 PM EST. 6 Comments

Mageia 6 is running months behind schedule while today the project was able to announce their second stabilization snapshot.

Mageia 6 STA2 is now available as the second stabilization snapshot for this Mandriva-derived Linux distribution. This new release incorporates eight months worth of bug fixes and polishing. Mageia 6 STA2 also now provides Xfce live ISO images.

Mageia 6 STA2 is shipping with Linux 4.9.13, X.Org Server 1.19.1, KDE Plasma 5.8.5, GNOME 3.22.3, MATE 1.16, Firefox 45 ESR, Chromium 56, and Mesa 13.0, among other packages.

More details on this Mageia 6 development release via Mageia.org's blog.

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