Mageia 2

Mageia 2, the second stable release of the community distribution originally forked from Mandriva Linux, has been released: "We're the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2! We've had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it. Here are some of the nice things included in Mageia 2: KDE 4.8.2 SC, the current release of the popular KDE desktop; GNOME 3.4.1, Xfce 4.8.3; VLC 2.0.1; Flash Player plugin 11.2; Chromium Browser 18; GIMP 2.8 featuring the all new single window interface...." See the release announcement and release notes for more information. The distribution is available for download from these mirror sites in the form of standard installation DVDs or live CD images with either GNOME or KDE and with various language support option. Quick links to the installation DVDs: Mageia-2-i586-DVD.iso (3,511MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-2-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-2-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,563MB, MD5, torrent).