Category Archives: QA

Announcing Mageia 8 RC1

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Donald Stewart

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback so that we can continue workingto get Mageia 8 ready for release. Mageia 8’s new artwork has also been integrated, the community has made some really nice images, here is the new signature background, as … Continue reading →

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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 →

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The first step towards Mageia 8 – Alpha 1 is available for testing

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Donald Stewart

We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 8. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 8. There have been large scale updates of all packages as well as … Continue reading →

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Chronicle in May

Posted on May 25, 2020 by papoteur

It’s been a very long time since you’ve heard from us on this blog. Now it’s time to give you some fresh news, because no matter what it seems, a lot of work has been done since then. Organization Many … Continue reading →

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Mageia 6 End of Life – Time to Upgrade

Posted on December 2, 2019 by papoteur

As you know, Mageia 7 was released this summer, followed shortly after by Mageia 7.1. It is time to say goodbye to Mageia 6 – updates have stopped, including security updates.As usual, before the upgrade, do a backup of your data and documents.You have a couple of ways to install Mageia … Continue reading →

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