Mageia @ Solutions Linux

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia will be at Solutions Linux 2011, Paris La Défense, from May 10th to May 12th, in booth A60.

Some of us will be there to explain the project, gather your views and wishes, discuss the future… Mageia T-shirts will be available as well! Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

And as usual, we will hold a dinner on Tuesday, May 10th, around 8pm in Paris (exact place still to be determined): you are welcome to join us! Please subscribe here so we know how many happy fellows we need to accommodate in the dinner party!

See you there!

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Mageia at the Berlin Linuxtag

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

From May 11th to May 14th, 2011 Linuxtag Berlin will open again in Berlin, Germany, and Mageia will be there!

Linuxtag BerlinLinuxTag is the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. The 17th LinuxTag presents all the latest for professional users, decision makers, developers, beginners and the Linux community. There will be keynotes by well known speakers like Wim Coekaerts (Oracle), Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.), Daniel Walsh (Red Hat); panel discussions, workshops, and a large exhibition area. Find the complete program here.

This year LinuxTag Berlin will also see Mageia, being presented by members of the German team in partnership with the German Mandriva user community. On Friday and Saturday prominent members of the Mageia project, Anne Nicolas (ennael), Romain d’Alverny ( rda) and Nicolas Vigier (boklm) will be at the stand, and there will be a conference about Mageia, held by ennael and rda.

On behalf of Mageia we invite you to come to our stand, #115, in hall 7b. Step by and say hello to Mageia!

 

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A newcomer in Mageia: Maven

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

(proposed by dmorgan)

The Java packaging in Mandriva 2010.1 (from which Mageia was forked) was just unusable. Many of the packages were obsolete and not really maintained. The task of updating packages had become very difficult as Maven, a now very common Java project build tool, was not properly integrated in the distribution. Many Java libraries installed using the old packages would not be usable by Maven. Moreover the version of Maven was obsolete and would not allow building recent software. This was a serious problem for maintaining the Java stack.

Fortunately, thanks to the collaboration between Mageia (dmorgan), openSUSE (Stephen Shaw) and Fedora (Alexander Kurtakov and Stanislav Ochotnicky), the first release of Mageia will include a fully updated and clean Java stack. Maven is now available as version 3.0.3. More than 200 Java packages have been updated and are now correctly integrated with Maven.

We hope that this update will help us maintain more java packages in the future. If you are a Java user or packager, your feedback is welcome on the Mageia development mailing list or the Mageia Bugzilla.

If you are interested in Java and packaging, we need your help in the Java team. People from this team will:

  • help keeping the Mageia Java stack up to date
  • collaborate with other linux distributions to share packages and patches when possible
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Live CDs are now available for tests!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

It took more time than expected but here they are: live CD ISOs for Mageia beta2. You will find, for now, 2 ISOs; one for each of KDE4 and GNOME. They include a limited set of supported languages (due to size constraints). The plan is to provide more ISOs, each ISO including a specific set of supported languages.

Download ISOs

It’s easy!

Supported languages

  • German (de)
  • English (Australia) (en_AU)
  • English (Canada) (en_CA)
  • English (British) (en_GB)
  • English (Ireland) (en_IE)
  • English (New-Zealand) (en_NZ)
  • English (American) (en_US)
  • English (South Africa) (en_ZA)
  • Spanish (es)
  • French (fr)
  • Italian (it)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR)
  • Russian (ru)

Enjoy testing and please, send us your feedback! Via the usual channels:

  • Filing a bug report in the Mageia Bugzilla
  • Contacting us on on the #mageia-dev IRC channel on Freenode
  • Sending an email to the Mageia-dev mailing list
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And now it’s time for beta 2

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

The second beta release of Mageia is now available for download and testing.

Go get it!

What’s new?

Lots of bug fixes and software updates! Kernel 2.6.38.4, LibreOffice 3.3.2.2, KDE 4.6.2, Firefox 4.0, Chromium browser 12.0.742.0 and many more.

We froze the software package versions last week. This means that no new, big, upstream code changes will be accepted in Mageia until our final release in June; then we will re-open the doors. We will now focus on fixing and reducing our bugs lists and refining and polishing the user experience.

We are setting up our security team so it’s ready for the final release; secteam’s job is to validate and push software security updates to your Mageia 1 installations.

Test it!

We need you to finalise this first release cycle! You as a tester, as a new user, as a contributor. This is the last week to check the following items:

  • is your favourite piece of software included? there’s still time to add some!
  • how does the upgrade feel like, starting from Mandriva Linux 2010.1 and 2010.2 to Mageia 1 beta 2? see our upgrade test page;
  • are your computers and peripherals properly recognised and handled by Mageia?
  • how does the installation process feel to you? (see our testing procedure).

Feel free to get in touch with us!

  • via our development mailing-list;
  • via IRC, on #mageia-dev on the Freenode server;
  • via our forum
  • via our Bugzilla
  • or catch one of us in Bordeaux, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Edinburgh, Genoa, Knoxville, Leuven, London, Lille, Lyon, Mexico, Moscow, Nanterre, Paris, Tampere or in many other places (beware: this method may require some coffee, beer or other beverage to work properly).

Mageia 1 final will be available in 35 days! \o/

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