https://lwn.net/Articles/648916/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Mageia 5 released". en-us Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:27:37 +0000 Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:27:37 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/649012/ https://lwn.net/Articles/649012/ tonyblackwell <div class="FormattedComment"> Very true.<br> <p> Mageia 5 now seems very well behaved with UEFI dd'ing the Classical or some other M5 iso's onto USB memstick gives installer bootable in either BIOS or UEFI systems. I was able to resize/delete MS-Win partitions on a dual-SSD UEFI RAID 0 laptop, create some linux partitions and install M5 while keeping W8.1 functional for legacy stuff. (Don't like throwing away stuff I had to pay for even if almost never used...)<br> </div> Tue, 23 Jun 2015 02:27:00 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/648994/ https://lwn.net/Articles/648994/ AdamW <div class="FormattedComment"> There is no such thing as a 'UEFI BIOS'. UEFI and BIOS are two different types of firmware.<br> </div> Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:50:12 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/648920/ https://lwn.net/Articles/648920/ thexf <div class="FormattedComment"> Who did try?<br> <p> </div> Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:12:20 +0000