Author Archives: Donald Stewart

Weekly roundup 2017 – week 42

Cauldron The biggest update this week has been Plasma 5.11.1 and also the addition of the Julia numerical oriented programming language, the full import should be ready soon. Big changes in Cauldron this week include: lame 3.100 ardour 5.12.0 cmake … Continue reading

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2017 week 41 and some extras

Cauldron The Mageia 7 feature proposals are being discussed more, as some of them are very large and will bring large changes to the distribution and installer, scoping the work and looking at the needed resources and timelines is a … Continue reading

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Weekly roundup 2017, week 38

Firstly a short apology for the lack of blogs recently. With summertime and other commitments, Mageia has sadly had less time from some contributors recently. Cauldron Since it has been 8 weeks since the last update, there have been massive changes to … Continue reading

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Mageia supports the Public Money, Public Code campaign

Open Source software, or more specifically, the ideals behind it go far beyond Mageia or the wider GNU/Linux Community. Being a part of this is something that Mageia has always been very proud of, and when possible, we have given … Continue reading

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Weekly roundup 2017 week 28 – 30

So this is the first roundup since the release of Mageia 6, so there are a few more weeks in here than normal. Cauldron As expected, Cauldron has been flooded with large updates, and despite their best efforts, everything seems … Continue reading

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