Author Archives: Anne Nicolas

Some more time again for the first beta version of Mageia 4

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

It seems witches and pixies decided to spend more time with us. We are, at the moment, working on finalizing the isos for this beta 1 version after a huge amount of work on some critical bugs in the installer … Continue reading →

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Contributor and evangelist: Bruno Cornec

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

Hi Bruno, can you introduce yourself? What is your job? Do you have any particular hobbies? BC: My name is Bruno Cornec. I’ve worked at HP for 13 years now, and have multiple hats there. My day job is to be an … Continue reading →

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New release date for Mageia 4 beta 1

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

Following the existing planning, Mageia 4 Beta 1 should be released on 2013/10/31. It looks like witches and pumpkins are playing a part in this release. Due to a nasty bug discovered on rpm itself, we have made an early … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, packager, QA, release | 7 Comments

Servers downtime

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

Many of our servers are currently unreachable. The reason is still unknown, but we expect that the problem will be fixed tomorrow, when someone is available at the data-center. Update: servers are back online.

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Mageia update advisories web site

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

When bugfix or security updates for Mageia releases are published, an update advisory email is sent to a mailing list. A new website to list those updates is also now available : https://advisories.mageia.org/ The advisories published before June 2013 are … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, users | 3 Comments