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Mageia at the Berlin Linuxtag

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

From May 11th to May 14th, 2011 Linuxtag Berlin will open again in Berlin, Germany, and Mageia will be there! LinuxTag is the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. The 17th LinuxTag presents all the latest for … Continue reading →

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A newcomer in Mageia: Maven

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

(proposed by dmorgan) The Java packaging in Mandriva 2010.1 (from which Mageia was forked) was just unusable. Many of the packages were obsolete and not really maintained. The task of updating packages had become very difficult as Maven, a now very … Continue reading →

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Live CDs are now available for tests!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

It took more time than expected but here they are: live CD ISOs for Mageia beta2. You will find, for now, 2 ISOs; one for each of KDE4 and GNOME. They include a limited set of supported languages (due to … Continue reading →

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And now it’s time for beta 2

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

The second beta release of Mageia is now available for download and testing. Go get it! What’s new? Lots of bug fixes and software updates! Kernel 2.6.38.4, LibreOffice 3.3.2.2, KDE 4.6.2, Firefox 4.0, Chromium browser 12.0.742.0 and many more. We froze the … Continue reading →

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On the tests again!

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia 1 Beta 1 is just out and it’s now time for testing. Let’s improve the quality of our favourite distro! We have organized 2 testing days on April 11th and 12th. We’re testing the Beta 1 ISOs; please focus … Continue reading →

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