Author Archives: marja

[Solved] Our other servers are down again

Posted on September 17, 2025 by marja

As you can see, our blogs are still up and running. However, the servers hosting most of the rest of our infrastructure, like the forums, wiki and bugzilla, are not. I assume we are under attack from bots again, but … Continue reading →

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Mageia at the Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, France

Posted on September 16, 2025 by marja

Originally posted in our French blog by Guillaume Royer. The Capitole du Libre is one of the biggest events in France’s free software community. It will take place on November 15 and 16. Registration is required, but admission is free. … Continue reading →

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A Cauldron of ideas to help those facing the end of Windows 10

Posted on July 20, 2025 by marja

By Aguador. The end is coming, the end is coming…the end of Windows 10 support, that is…and as part of the Linux community we can help those affected. As of 14 October support for Windows 10 will end, leaving its … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird updates for armv7hl

Posted on July 13, 2025 by marja

Written by katnatek. This is an unusual post… As we warned in the past updates MGASA-2025-0195, MGASA-2025-0197 and MGASA-2025-0201, the updates for Firefox and Thunderbird could not be delivered for armv7hl for a long time. The issue had two causes. … Continue reading →

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An avalanche of AI bots is repeatedly taking parts of our website down

Posted on May 18, 2025 by marja

We have always had bots visiting our website. They were mostly kind bots, like the crawlers that keep the databases of search engines up-to-date. Those kind bots start by looking at our robots.txt files before doing anything, and respect the … Continue reading →

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