Author Archives: Donald Stewart

Known issues with upgrades from Mageia 5 to Mageia 6

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Since the release of Mageia 6 last week, there have been several reports about issues with upgrades from Mageia 5, particularly for users upgrading from KDE 4. While that is not surprising due to the complex nature of the upgrade … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 27

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron The last Council meeting on Tuesday was focused around the go/no go on releasing Mageia 6, rather unsurprisingly. While there was lots of discussion about blockers and update paths, one issue that stood out was ISO size. It is … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 25 & 26

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron The ISO testing for the final release is coming along well, the majority of the remaining blocking bugs were closed recently, the last remaining big issue was with LibreOffice only installing properly in English, however, that has been fixed … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 24

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron A nice snippet about the state of Cauldron from the Dev mailing list today – a mail with the subject “Nobody touches anything!” noted that the last autobuild (all of the Mageia packages get rebuilt each week to check for … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017, week 23

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron So Cauldron is in release freeze now, and new ISOs have been built. Tests so far are looking good, there was one issue with initial application launches on the Plasma live build causing a freeze on some occasions, but … Continue reading →

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