Author Archives: Donald Stewart

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 10 Comments

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

Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Donald Stewart

Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8. Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hardware. The release is available to download directly, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, release | 31 Comments