Author Archives: Donald Stewart

Mageia was at FOSDEM 2016

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Donald Stewart

FOSDEM 2016 was held in Brussels on the 30th and 31st of January. We also had our Annual General Assembly and managed to get out for a nice dinner and a few beers, putting some faces to new contributors and … Continue reading →

Posted in community, events, Mageia, team, users | 2 Comments

Good things come to those who wait… Mageia 6 dev1 is here.

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Donald Stewart

After the delays caused by upgrading the major parts of the base system and switching to the Plasma 5 Desktop Environment, we are very happy to announce that the first development milestone of Mageia 6 has been released and is ready … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, community, Mageia, QA, release, test | 17 Comments

Mageia was at SCaLE 14x

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Donald Stewart

Mageia made it to SCaLE 14x for the first time in sunny California, with one of our dedicated QA deputy leaders to man the booth. Bill Kenney, or wilcal as he is known here, did an amazing job running the … Continue reading →

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Our First Backport – HPLIP 3.15.11

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Donald Stewart

Firstly, Happy Holidays to everyone, we all hope that you have a nice festive season and that the New Years brings good fortune. But back to the business at hand… The backport repositories exist so that we can provide updates … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, packager, QA, Uncategorized, users | 16 Comments

Some news of what’s boiling in the Cauldron

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Donald Stewart

For those of you who are most familiar with Mageia and its development, you are starting to know the drill: Cauldron is the place where we break stuff by upgrading everything that we tried to keep stable during the previous … Continue reading →

Posted in packager, QA, users | 10 Comments