Mageia 5 Linux Officially Released with Support for UEFI Systems, Btrfs By Default

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Marius Nestor
Jun 20, 2015

Mageia 5 is a major release that packs a significant amount of new features, starting with support for UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) machines, and continuing with Btrfs being the default file system for new installations, updates to all of the included packages, as well as the usual under-the-hood improvements.

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Marius Nestor

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