Category Archives: packager

Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work, already pushing … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup – 2017, week 10

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

Cauldron This week saw a huge milestone for Mageia 6: the release of our second stabilisation snapshot, “sta2“. It is the product of 8 months of work since the previous milestone, sta1, and the quality has improved a lot! The … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup – 2017, week 9

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

Given how well-received last week’s roundup was, we are continuing to deliver news about what is happening in Mageia. Cauldron Tests by the QA team showed that the infamous partitioning bug (mga#20074) we have been fighting with for several months … Continue reading →

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Our warm thanks to a long time contributor and friend

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Rémi Verschelde

It is with a heavy heart that we address our warmest thanks to our friend Thomas Spuhler for his Mandriva and Mageia contributions over the last decade. After fighting colon cancer for over a year, he finally had to surrender … Continue reading →

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Dandifying Mageia – Adding the DNF stack to Mageia

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Neal Gompa

There’s a lot of good things coming to Mageia 6: KDE Plasma 5 desktop, updates to other desktop environments, many new games, and a fresh coat of paint with a new visual style. However, there’s quite a lot of under-the-hood … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, Mageia, packager | 48 Comments