Being powered by Linux kernel 3.10.5, Mageia 4 Alpha 1 uses KDE 4.11 RC2, GNOME 3.9.5, Libreoffice 4.1, systemd 206, Qt 4.8.5, RPM 4.11.0, and Perl 5.18.0. The MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments are available in the default software repositories.