Mageia 9 Plasma
Review exact release details and current availability for Mageia 9 Plasma.
About Mageia
Mageia is the community continuation of Mandriva Linux, created as a nonprofit association when the original French company faltered, and it preserves a lineage that once introduced many Europeans to desktop Linux. The inheritance shows in its tooling: the Mageia Control Center gathers hardware setup, package management, and system configuration into one friendly hub, a hallmark of the Mandrake and Mandriva tradition. Packages are RPMs, installable through the classic urpmi tools or DNF, and the project runs its own build system and repositories. Releases are fixed rather than rolling, each maintained for a comfortable window, and installation offers KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, and lighter desktops from one image. The community is famously multilingual, with strong French roots. Mageia suits users who want a traditional, integrated desktop distribution outside the biggest families. An OpenFactory VM brings that experience into your browser within minutes.
All Mageia releases and desktopsWhat happens when you press Try now
The button opens the OpenFactory console in a new tab and boots a fresh Mageia virtual machine from OpenFactory's verified source media. The session renders directly in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer.
Each visit gets its own machine with a fresh overlay over an immutable base image. Files, settings, and desktop changes behave normally inside the session and are discarded when it ends, so every visitor starts from the same clean Mageia 9 Plasma.
Questions about this target
Is this an official Mageia image?
Yes. Launches boot from OpenFactory's verified copy of official Mageia media with the Plasma desktop. The catalog records where each source came from and when it was verified, and visitor sessions never modify the stored image.
Do changes persist between sessions?
No. Every launch runs on a fresh overlay over an immutable base image, and the machine state is discarded when the session ends. No visitor sees another visitor's changes, and every session starts from the same clean Mageia 9 Plasma.
Can I get a customized Mageia instead of the stock demo?
Yes. The OpenFactory builder turns this release into your own image: pick packages, services, users, and hardening, then build it, test it in a browser VM, and download the result for real hardware.