Welcome in Mageia forums

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Finally we did it: the Mageia forums are online!

These are the official portal for the Mageia community: support, distro testing reports, contributions, discussions…. The default language is English but you can join any of the other local Mageia community forums here.

We hope you’ll enjoy all the various forum activities (discussions, technical support and of course a bit of trolling here and there) ! Your feedback is important and will help all Mageia teams to improve your favourite distribution.

How to use it? Just go and log in http://forums.mageia.org/en/ with your Mageia user account.

Enjoy!

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Mageia 1 Alpha 2: Primavera is coming!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

As outlined in the Mageia roadmap, here comes Primavera, the second alpha release.

Many thanks to all those who worked on this important step towards our first, official release: packagers, translators, developers, admins and testers.

Again, this has been a very busy month: our build system is now running at full capacity and the list of available software has grown to over 6,100 SRPMS, including full integration of LibreOffice and Eclipse, rpm 4.8.1, KDE 4.6.1. Now we need your help to test the distro!

Alpha2 is available through 2 DVDs in 32 and 64 bit flavours respectively. You can also find a dual CD ISO, including both 32 and 64 arch for minimal installations. You can pick a mirror to download from our mirrors list. Torrents are not yet available, however they should be available for the beta release cycle. Help is welcome on that specific topic. Live CDs are also planned later for beta releases.

Alpha2 ISOs are not intended to be used in production as the distro remains in alpha phase. Final design is not yet fully-integrated and a lot of work is still left to be done on theme and icons. Stay tuned!

All information about Primavera:

We hope you will enjoy this brand new Alpha release and we look forward to seeing you again for Beta1 due on the 15th of April!

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Mageia on display in Germany

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Coming up on March 19th/20th, 2011, is the annual Chemnitzer Linuxtage, taking place at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany. This public Linux event has been growing year after year and this time is the first time that the number of interested exhibitors exceeded the available space for exhibition booths.

Visitors of the event will have the choice to listen to numerous lectures on all kinds of topics, participate in a lot of interesting workshops such as Dr. Tux, and see a large exhibition of FOSS projects.

Mageia.Org. will participate by sharing a stand with the German user community MandrivaUser.de. This is the first time Mageia.Org will show up at a public Linux event in Germany and we are eager to meet everybody who is interested in our new organisation and distribution. You will find us on the ground floor at stand #601 (floor map with blinking circle at the Mageia stand).

So, on behalf of Mageia.Org and the guys (sorry, no gals this time!) at the Mageia stand, we invite you to stop by, say hello and ask everything you never dared to ask about Mageia!

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Follow Mageia calendar and stay tuned!

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia now provides a calendar so that you can follow everything happening in the project. For now, we’ll use Google Calendar as it was fast to set up but later we will switch to a self-hosted calendar.

Mageia calendars are split into 4 categories:

  • Mageia meetings and organisation: all regular team meetings including Council ones
  • Mageia events: these are international events where Mageia will take part (booth and/or conference)
  • Mageia development planning: you will find here all important dates about development of coming Mageia releases (ISOs, version freezes, test days…)
  • Mageia packaging mentoring and training: register here if you are a Mageia official packager and you want to spend  some time helping beginners on  IRC

All these calendars are public and available to everyone. Only Mageia Board and Council members and team leaders can edit the calendars, except for the mentoring and training category where all official packagers can add/remove the relevant dates.

For any comments, additions, changes to this calendar, feel free to contact us through:

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First Mageia test day coming

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia Alpha 1 is now available for tests on public mirrors. In order to get as much feedback as possible, the first Mageia test day will be organized on 26th of February. This will be a kind of a test run as we plan to have test days for all development releases.

What do we expect from it?

Mainly feedback about install steps as having a full install media is the only way to test that easily. This is also a good chance to point out any RPM package that should be available by default on the ISOs. And finally it will allow us to check hardware detection during Mageia installation. This is a good time to test how well your hardware is supported in Mageia.

Do I need to be an expert to participate?

Not at all. We’ll provide a test procedure along with a list of all the debugging info needed to fix the issue, and how you can report bugs to the Mageia dev team. Join the party!

I cannot deal with Bugzilla, how can I still help you?

As said above, you will find a Bugzilla HOWTO and configuration for it has been done so that beginners can easily use it. Still if you cannot use it, use the Mageia mailing-lists (mageia-dev or mageia-discuss) or IRC (#mageia-dev on Freenode server) to make your report. Any feedback is always welcome.

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