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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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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