Category Archives: users

So you are not good enough to contribute?

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Marja van Waes

This blog post is especially written for those among us who could free up some time to contribute, but refrain from doing so because they think they are not good enough.The last section is for former and current packaging apprentice … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, community, Mageia, packager, team, users | Tagged , , , | 14 Comments

Known issues with upgrades from Mageia 5 to Mageia 6

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Since the release of Mageia 6 last week, there have been several reports about issues with upgrades from Mageia 5, particularly for users upgrading from KDE 4. While that is not surprising due to the complex nature of the upgrade … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, release, users | 28 Comments

Dandifying Mageia, Part 2

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Neal Gompa

In our previous blog post on “dandifying Mageia” (nearly a year ago!), we introduced DNF in Mageia 6 to the world. Since then, we’ve been keeping pace and tracking upstream development in Cauldron. By working closely with upstream and being … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, Mageia, packager, release, users | 8 Comments

Announcing Mageia 6, finally ready to shine!

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far! It comes with many new and exciting features, a new range of installation media and the … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 13

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Cauldron The big Cauldron news is that ISO testing for Mageia 6 RC is well under way, new images were generated that will hopefully fix the EFI implementation and some grub config issues. Gnome 3.24 will be available on the … Continue reading →

Posted in bugsquad, community, Mageia, QA, release, users, Weekly roundup | 5 Comments