Category Archives: Mageia

They make Mageia: David Walser

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Anne Nicolas

How should we call you ? Luigi or David and why using Luigi ? David. Luigi is my favorite video game character from growing up. When I first started using the internet in the mid-90’s, one of my first destinations … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, security, They Make Mageia, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Let’s say goodbye to Mageia 3

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Rémi Verschelde

It’s been a great run, but all good things must end. Or at least, upgrade to a greater thing. Since Mageia 3 was released in May 2013 our packaging and security teams have provided hundreds of updates (actually 1136 source packages … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, QA, release, security, users | 11 Comments

As Philae, Mageia 3 is running out of batteries…

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Anne Nicolas

As you all know, we can’t maintain Mageia releases forever. And it’s time to say goodbye to Mageia 3. After Wednesday the 26th of November, this release won’t benefit from any more security or bugfix updates. This will allow QA … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Mageia, packager, release, security, users | 10 Comments

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