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Category Archives: Updates
Current Roundup and News – Week 35
Neoclust wrote this blog post last Sunday, but we (Atelier Team) needed three days to enhance it a little and publish it, sorry about that to Neoclust and all our readers. If you want to join Atelier Team to help … Continue reading
PwnKit (polkit’s pkexec exploit) – CVE-2021-4034
The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is … As root run “chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec”.That will mean pkexec … Continue reading
News from our package manager “urpmi”
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
Mageia 6 End of Life – Time to Upgrade
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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It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Mageia 6.1
This release brings all of the updates and development that has gone into Mageia 6 together into fresh installation media, giving users a kernel that supports hardware released after Mageia 6. The new installations will benefit from the countless updates … Continue reading
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