Author Archives: Donald Stewart

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 →

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Announcing Mageia 8 RC1

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Donald Stewart

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback so that we can continue workingto get Mageia 8 ready for release. Mageia 8’s new artwork has also been integrated, the community has made some really nice images, here is the new signature background, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, QA, release | 34 Comments

Artwork Voting

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Donald Stewart

With the first release candidate due in the coming weeks, it’s time to get the artwork for Mageia 8 finished. Before we get down to choosing the images, it’s really great to see all of the submissions and how creative … Continue reading →

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Mageia 8 Artwork Contest, Take Two

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Donald Stewart

Sadly when we ran the first contest the translation and announcements into many of our communities didn’t happen so many submissions were missed out on, to solve this, we will run the contest again, from 2020/12/18 until 2021/1/1. It will … Continue reading →

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More Progress for Mageia 8 – Beta 1 is available for testing

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Donald Stewart

We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 1. After the good feedback from Alpha 1, there have been some improvements and fixes for this release, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts so that … Continue reading →

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