Author Archives: Donald Stewart

Mageia 8 End of Life

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Donald Stewart

Mageia made it to a byte’s worth of releases when Mageia 8 was released in 2021. Mageia 8 was a very successful release which has received 21646 updated packages and thousands of security fixes, keeping it current and secure thanks to the work … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, release, Updates | 2 Comments

Time to Make Mageia 9 Beautiful – The Artwork Drop is Open

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Donald Stewart

As with every release, the artwork for Mageia 9 will come from you, the great community that supports and makes Mageia possible. The Development of Mageia 9 is progressing quickly, with many major updates and key features getting ready for … Continue reading →

Posted in artwork, Atelier, community, Mageia | 2 Comments

Get involved with Mageia, become a Packager

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Donald Stewart

With Mageia 8 just released and development for Mageia 9 getting underway in Cauldron, the unstable branch of Mageia, now is a great time to get involved with packaging. We are starting to look at the features that we want … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, packager | 5 Comments

Emergency Updates about the direction of Mageia

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Donald Stewart

Warning: this post is a joke of 1st April. Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM packageformat, which we’ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee hasapproved the switch to Debian package manager, apt. We will … Continue reading →

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A New Board to go with the New Release

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Donald Stewart

The Mageia Association met for its Associate General Meeting on the 1st of March with the intention of electing a new Board to govern Mageia, as per the Mageia Constitution. The Board consists of 6 – 12 individuals that oversee the financials … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Elections, Mageia | 5 Comments