Our baby’s growing up: Mageia 2 is here

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Patricia Fraser

We’re the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2!

We’ve had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it.

You can get started right now – see what’s available, choose your version and download it from http://www.mageia.org/2/.

To find out more about Mageia 2 – what’s new and what’s going on in the Mageia community – read on:

What’s new in Mageia 2?

Mageia 2 is a completely new release; you can check the Release Notes to learn more about what’s inside.

You can also take a look at the list of packages upgraded from Mageia 1, by checking the Mageia Apps Database:

Why would you choose Mageia?

Good Software

Mageia 2 is built from the best Free and Open Source software with a constantly expanding choice of apps – there is something for everyone’s taste.

Here are some of the nice things included in Mageia 2:

  • KDE 4.8.2 – KDE 4.8.2 SC, the current release of the popular KDE desktop
  • razorqt 0.4.1 – The latest release of the new lightweight Qt desktop
  • LXDE
  • Sugar
  • GNOME 3.4.1
  • XFCE 4.8.3
  • Digikam and Showfoto 2.6 – The latest release of these leading photograph management systems
  • VLC 2.0.1 – The latest version of the popular do it all media player
  • Flash Player Plugin 11.2 – Up to date and secure version of Adobe’s popular web content player
  • Skype – Easy installer for this common VOIP client
  • Firefox ESR 10 – Long Term Support version of the Firefox Browser
  • Chromium Browser 18 – The latest version of the Open Source upstream project for Google’s Chrome Browser
  • GIMP 2.8 – Featuring the all new single window interface
  • Amarok 2.5 -Popular media player written in Qt

For more information, check the Release Notes for the complete list.

Great Community

Mageia is a community as well as a distribution. This means that you can be part of the teams putting your distro together; your voice is welcome as we work out where Mageia is going and how we’re getting there.

Mageia is all about communicating. We talk together on IRC, on the forums, on the wiki, on mailing lists; we meet often, and we welcome your feedback on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Identi.ca, Diaspora…

We’re a community distribution and we’re very happy for companies to be part of our community. We’ll even credit you!

Join us – be part of making your software the way you want it.

Open Support

Mageia’s bug reporting system is open to everyone, as are the mailing lists and community support, making it easier for you to have your voice heard and follow what is happening – and you don’t need to subscribe or pay to have access to the fully tested and prompt security updates.

Nice New Clothes

Not only has Mageia’s look been updated, but the appearance of applications has been unified, giving a smoother appearance regardless of desktop:

Mageia 2 screenshot

Welcome to Mageia 2!

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Mageia comes full circle

Posted on May 21, 2012 by tmb

We have two very interesting news items to share today, just a few days before our Mageia 2 final release.

Mandriva Linux community project

Mandriva recently announced  that it will transfer the responsibility of the Mandriva Linux distribution to an independent entity. We would very much like to express our very best wishes for this new entity.

Mageia.Org’s board was contacted privately by Mr. Croset before this announcement, to discuss the opportunity to have Mageia representatives joining their working group (unfortunately the discussion had to be private, as it was requested by Mandriva to keep the information private until their announcement). Ultimately, the Mageia.Org board declined the offer and for clarity we are publishing the reasons for this decision here:

  • the Mageia.org governance model is good and has been defined for very specific reasons: independence of the Mageia project from commercial constraints, democratic elections, meritocratic inclusion, no appointed or reserved positions.It would have been, in our view, an excellent open platform for Mandriva to join. We do not yet know the reasons why Mandriva ultimately felt this was not a good fit for them at this time.
  • We have invested a lot of time and energy over many conversations and discussions to define Mageia on several levels. And we continue to release updates and the betas and RCs for Mageia 2, and we regularly put our contributions back into the Linux ecosystem.
  • We do not have much information about the directions in which this future entity might go, nor about the goals of each of the potential participants.
  • We do not wish to dilute our (small) resources further on a new thing to define and build; we think our priorities are elsewhere right now.
  • All our work is free software, so we can already share code and collaborate with other distributions when needed, without joining a new entity.

Mandriva: welcome back to the party!

Mageia is gaining a derivative product

In other news, Mandriva announced that they will use the Mageia distribution as a technical platform for their new Business Server product.

This decision is the result of discussions that took place between Mandriva and Mageia. A new entity in the Mageia ecosystem is good news.

To make everything clear and avoid any misunderstanding, we would like to remind you of a few points:

  • Mageia is free software, so it is of course possible for anybody to create Mageia derivatives;
  • Mageia welcomes contributions from all individuals and companies as long as they follow the rules of the project;
  • Mageia has a well defined governance model and organization, and there is no plan to change it;
  • Mageia is independent of any company.

And that’s not all!

Mageia 2 is coming next!

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Time to get going – to Berlin!

Posted on May 14, 2012 by obgr_seneca

Linuxtag logo

18th Linuxtag is coming up on May 23rd to 26th, 2012 in hall 7.2 at the exhibition ground in Berlin, Germany.

For almost two decades this international event with the motto “Where .com meets .org” has been drawing speakers, exhibitors and visitors by the thousands from all over the world and offers the usual wide selection of keynotes, conferences and talks beside a large exhibition of commercial and non-commercial companies and projects.

As we did at last year’s exhibition, Mageia.Org and MandrivaUser.de will share a booth in hall 7.2, B #207. You will find well known people of the Mageia world like marja, magnus, TeaAge, doktor5000, wobo and others presenting the brand new Mageia 2 and ready to answer all your questions. On Friday and Saturday Mageia users will be also be welcomed by ennael, boklm and obgr_seneca.

Will you be anywhere near Berlin on those days? Make sure you stop by and say hello to us!

PS: In a couple of days the electronic ticket counter will open. People in need of a cost-free ticket may contact wobo or obgr_seneca via forum pm or mail.

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Almost there: download Mageia 2 RC – new date for final release

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Anne Nicolas

Here we are. After some delay, Mageia 2 RC is available for the last tests before the final release. We’ve included a lot of bug fixes to the installation and upgrade since the beta 3 release and we hope it will give you a very nice experience with Mageia.

More information on this last development release:

This is the last chance to test and report feedback about any problems you may encounter with this future release. We need you!

As a consequence of the RC delay, the final release will be postponed to the 22nd of May to give us enough time to manage RC reports and build the final ISOs.

Thanks again for your patience and stay tuned!

The Mageia team

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Mageia is like good wine…

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia 2 RC was planned for today but tests and debug are still going on to finalize it. We hope to deliver it in coming days.

Thanks for your patience and stay tuned!

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