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Mageia at GUADEC 2021

Posted on July 19, 2021 by papoteur

In my recent blog post I shared that GNOME’s GUADEC 2021 is going to be online due Covid19-pandemic. Nevertheless, I am pleased to let you know that my workshop about Mageia GNOME has been accepted! This workshop will give an introduction … Continue reading →

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Mageia 7 will reach End of Support on 30th of June – “The king is dead, long live the king!”

Posted on June 8, 2021 by papoteur

Mageia 8 was released Feb 26th, 2021.Mageia 7 will receive updates up until the 30th of June, including security updates. It is then highly recommended upgrading to Mageia 8 as soon as possible. As usual, before the upgrade, do a … Continue reading →

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Emergency Updates about the direction of Mageia – edit – check the date

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Donald Stewart

Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM packageformat, which we’ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee hasapproved the switch to Debian package manager, apt. We will rebuild Cauldron to adopt the .deb package to have … Continue reading →

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8 in beta2

Posted on December 13, 2020 by papoteur

We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 2. After a  long time since the beta 1, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts so that we can continue to get Mageia 8 ready for … Continue reading →

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Mageia 8 is on its way

Posted on November 13, 2020 by papoteur

The road to get Mageia 8 is winding, slow but steady. The current situation is that major packages have been updated to latest versions, such as: – basesystem with systemd 246, glibc 2.31, GCC 10.2, LLVM 10.0.1, urpmi 8.123, DNF 4.2.23 … Continue reading →

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