Category Archives: community

Artwork Voting

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Donald Stewart

With the first release candidate due in the coming weeks, it’s time to get the artwork for Mageia 8 finished. Before we get down to choosing the images, it’s really great to see all of the submissions and how creative … Continue reading →

Posted in artwork, Atelier, community | 3 Comments

Mageia 8 Artwork Contest, Take Two

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Donald Stewart

Sadly when we ran the first contest the translation and announcements into many of our communities didn’t happen so many submissions were missed out on, to solve this, we will run the contest again, from 2020/12/18 until 2021/1/1. It will … Continue reading →

Posted in artwork, Atelier, Beta, Collaboration, community, Mageia | Tagged , | 2 Comments

We are very sad to announce that José Jorge, who used the login zezinho, passed away on September the 11th

Posted on September 14, 2020 by papoteur

José was 46 years old, father to 3 children. He, and his 16 year old son, who was accompanying him on a bicycle ride, died September the 11th after being struck by a car. José was a major contributor to … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

News from our package manager “urpmi”

Posted on August 28, 2020 by neoclust

News from our package manager “urpmi” :Inherited from the Mandriva distribution, Mageia’s default package manager is URPMI. It offers a wide range of features to manage software repositories, install, update and remove applications packaged in rpm format. This standardized format … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, release, Updates | 3 Comments

More Progress for Mageia 8 – Beta 1 is available for testing

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Donald Stewart

We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 1. After the good feedback from Alpha 1, there have been some improvements and fixes for this release, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts so that … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, packager, release | 24 Comments