Category Archives: community

The Long and Winding Road

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Rémi Verschelde

Well, it’s been a long road, longer than we anticipated, but we’re almost there! Mageia 5 Beta 1 is now validated! What exactly does that mean? What took so long (a month and a half longer than originally planned)? RPM … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, community, Mageia, packager, QA, release, test | 14 Comments

Halloween the curse or buggy software?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Anne Nicolas

As explained in a previous post, lots of updates occured especially dealing with rpm. And here we go. We are facing at the moment some nasty issues in installer. The graphical part of the installer is just crashing due to … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, community, Mageia, packager | 10 Comments

Summer has come and passed…

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Donald Stewart

…the lazy will never last. September 19th! That’s the last day when we will accept artwork submissions! We’re looking for a new default background that will be shipped with Mageia 5. We might also pick one or two runners up … Continue reading →

Posted in artwork, Atelier, community, Mageia, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

We Need You! (to try and break stuff)

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Rémi Verschelde

Guys, this one is coming from the heart. We keep talking about how Mageia is this and Mageia needs that and Mageia did this totally awesome thing. But you know what? That’s a little bit misleading. See, Mageia isn’t some … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, users | 4 Comments

First step reached for Mageia 5: alpha 1 is available for tests

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Anne Nicolas

Time has come again for ISO testing! Here is the first step towards Mageia 5. Most of your favorite software has been updated to their latest versions. There is still a long road ahead, but all in all, this first alpha … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha, community, Mageia, packager, QA, release | 15 Comments