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What is Mageia?

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

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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 four major stable releases in June 2011, in May 2012, in May 2013 and in February 2014.

How to use this image

Create a Dockerfile for your container

FROM mageia:4
MAINTAINER  "Foo Bar" <[email protected]>
CMD [ "bash" ]

Installed packages

All images install the following packages:

  • basesystem-minimal
  • urpmi
  • locales
  • locales-en