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[Done] Most of our servers will be offline because they are relocating

Posted on October 8, 2024 by papoteur

We are pleased to announce that our servers in Marseille will be moving to new premises, still provided free of charge by IELO. As a result, some services as the bug tracker, wiki, code servers, build system and others will … Continue reading →

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Server failure

Posted on April 7, 2024 by papoteur

As you may have noticed, our servers are down. Investigations are underway. The wiki, build system, bug tracker and mirror list are offline. We’ll keep you informed of any developments here. [Update Monday April 8 at 15:00] The servers have … Continue reading →

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About backdoor security alert for xz

Posted on March 30, 2024 by papoteur

You may have been alerted by the announcement that the xz software has been modified to introduce a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This software is a file compression utility. It is widely used in Mageia, since RPM packages are compressed using this … Continue reading →

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The release of beta2 brings Mageia 9 stable closer to reality

Posted on May 24, 2023 by papoteur

We are proud to announce the second beta of Mageia 9. Since the release of beta 1 in February 2023 the Mageia team has worked to solve a number of stubborn issues and provide security fixes and new updates. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Mageia at GUADEC 2021

Posted on July 19, 2021 by papoteur

In my recent blog post I shared that GNOME’s GUADEC 2021 is going to be online due Covid19-pandemic. Nevertheless, I am pleased to let you know that my workshop about Mageia GNOME has been accepted! This workshop will give an introduction … Continue reading →

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