Mageia 9 has been released and a lot of people are already using it.
You can find the release notes here
and the errata here
A huge big thank you to everyone who contributed to this great new Mageia version.
Even though almost not contributing myself, I have been using Mageia 9 without problems from when it started to be developed until now and I really like it.
Me too. I started with the beta1, I suppose.
Agreed, one of my boxes has been running only Cauldron leading to 9 sence the first beta. Excellent work all along, Mageia remains my distro of choice. All boxes going Mageia 9.
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Great (as ever!). But lazarus pascal 2.2.4 is in the repos. When can we expect 2.2.6?
@Mike: as soon as you open a bug report for an update request (like this https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29953).
As a default, we don’t chase latest releases, they come with fixes and also new bugs. But if you are in need of a latest version, please open a motivated bug report and the update will be made!
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I haven’t been very fortunate thus far with respect to successful automatic update from a previous version to the next, but, on at least one system, this time was a resounding success. Great job. Not sure how to trigger the update on a different system, but I look forward to it working also.
Hi Kevin,
You wrote “Not sure how to trigger the update on a different system”. If the upgrade isn’t automatically proposed, you might need to tick the box before ‘Check for newer “default” releases’ in MCC => Software Management => Configure updates frequency https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/9/en/content/software-management.html#mgaapplet-config
Thanks. I did figure out how to trigger an update by reading the fine manual: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_8 This second system upgraded fine also even though it failed a number of times due to filling up the disk. I was able to use a root console to remove some packages and ‘Retry’, until it eventually succeeded (this is pretty awesome in and of itself). I might note that while the first system update worked, it did default to booting to a black screen. I’ve seen this multiple times in the past and fortunately know that I have to login via alternate console and use ‘sudo chown username:username .Xauthority’ as something changed it to ‘root:root’ permissions. Furthermore, I often have to ‘mv .kde .kde.old’ (or remove it), and did this time as well, so there might still be some work to do. I should find out where is best to provide this feedback.
Regardless, again, kudos to all who all got the update system to this point.
Congratulations! Still the distro of my choice, for so many years..
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Hi Marja,
I have tried to donate to Mageia, but I do not use PayPal anymore (they robbed me a few years ago).
On the website I can’t find a bank account for Mageia.
Some weeks ago I asked this same question at treasurer@mageia.org. But I never got an answer. Very strange, as if they don’t want to receive financial support.
So here is my question again: what is the IBAN bank number for donating to Mageia?
Regards from Amsterdam,
Marc.
Hi Marc,
Thanks for your willingness to donate.
When we still published the IBAN of Mageia’s account, we were too vulnerable for fraud, we lost money to people who pretended to have a direct debit mandate.
The e-mail address you sent your request to, is an alias for the two e-mail addresses of maat and neoclust https://people.mageia.org/g/mga-treasurer.html
I don’t know what went wrong, but will ask neoclust to contact you
Congratulations, Mageia! Finally, after a long time waiting for Mageia 9.
Best regards,
Malsasa