Last run for Mageia 2: test beta 3!

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Anne Nicolas

For some days the suspense was at its height. We are now happy to deliver this beta 3  release which is the very last beta version for Mageia2. Lots of work has been done on release blocking bugs, final design is nearly all integrated and we now wait for all your feedback.

Beta 3 comes with all the planned media: DVDs, dual CD, live CDs. We especially need feedback on live CDs to improve them for RC release.

As usual you can find more information on beta 3 here:

Warning: If you are working on a laptop with both Intel and ATI graphics hardware have a look here, if you are having trouble with Nvidia graphic hardware using live CD, it’s here.
We are working on this issue to solve it before RC.

Time is short before RC, about 2 weeks. Download it, test it, and use Bugzilla.

Enjoy!

Mageia team

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Mageia 2 beta 3 is on the way

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Anne Nicolas

As explained in a previous post, Mageia 2 planning has been delayed a bit. A beta 3  release has been added. While it was planned for today, it will  be also delayed for some days. This release will come with usual DVDs but also Live CDs and dual CD and is asking some extra time for tests.

Stay tuned!

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And the winners are…

Posted on April 10, 2012 by obgr_seneca

After a month of looking at all those photos and graphics proposed for the Mageia 2 artwork contest, the Council finally chose the winners.

The easiest part about that was the graphics for the main background, but only because there weren’t as many as the photos for the alternative backgrounds.

The winner for the main background can be found here. Take a look at it, because you might see it quite often in the coming year. Well done Luiz Fernando!
Our artwork team is currently working on creating themes for plymouth, the bootsplash, drakconf and the installer.

Since there were so many photos sent in, we decided to choose two winners from them:
One for the best alternative background and one for the best screensaver photo.

After quite some time, we finally decided on the following ones:
A great winter photo was chosen as the best alternative background.
For the screensaver we agreed upon a really nice under water photo. Well done Patrick and Jürgen Donauer!

We will now contact the people sending us those three photos about their prize, as we promised we will send them some Mageia goodies.

Congratulations to the three winners and many thanks to everybody for sending us their work!

 

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Revised release schedule for Mageia 2

Posted on April 5, 2012 by obgr_seneca

After some discussions between the Mageia Council and the Packagers’ team, we’ve decided to make some changes to the Mageia 2 release schedule.

There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one being that we feel that the list of important bugs still remaining to be solved needs more time and attention before we release.

The bugs mostly relate to the systemd/dracut migration, and changes needed in the installer and drakxtools.

While we’re working on these bugs, our artwork and documentation and i18n teams will have a little longer to get everything polished and as near perfect as possible; we hope you’ll be pleased with the result!

We think you’ll agree that it’s more important to have Mageia  stable, than to stick to the original release date.

Because we want to deliver the best-quality Mageia 2 release, we’re adding a third beta release, and pushing back the dates for the release candidate and the final release:

  • Beta 3, April 14th 2012:
    • we’ll be relying on everybody to test this release thoroughly, so we can find and fix as many bugs as possible
  • Release  Candidate, May 2nd 2012:
    • this should have already achieved final release quality, and it will be the last chance for us to find and fix bugs before the final release,
  • Mageia 2 final stable release, May 15th, at last.
    • Enjoy and celebrate!
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Servers downtime

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Anne Nicolas

Update [April 1st]: servers are back to life! It was a faulty RJ45 cable. It’s not an April Fool!

We are currently having some network problems with our servers hosted in Marseille. The switch that we use to connect the servers decided to stop working for an unknown reason, and we may need to replace it.

Main afected services are :

  • build system
  • sympa mailing lists
  • bugzilla
  • forum
  • svn
  • identity
  • wiki
  • main mirror
  • mirrors database

We will update this post when we have more news.

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