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Bootstrap? What bootstrap? I want Mageia ISO!

We announced that our first alpha ISO will be available by the end of January… and still no ISO. Damned! What is going on? Let me explain it. Once upon a bootstrap… As stated in previous blog posts, our build … Continue reading

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See you at FOSDEM

About 20 of us will join the fun and attend FOSDEM in Brussels this coming week-end (see our preparation notes). Among other great and fun discussions, we will hold two talks on Sunday about Mageia: at 10:30 in CrossDistro devroom … Continue reading

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Mageia joins Open Invention Network

Mageia.org has just joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. Software patents are a threat to Free Open Source Software development and to free innovation at large. OIN‘s goal is to minimize/eliminate software patent threats within the Linux ecosystem. It … Continue reading

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Happy new Mageia

First, let’s get the niceties out of the way… the Mageia team would like to wish you all a very happy New Year, for you and your families :D. We really hope that 2011 will be the Mageia year for … Continue reading

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First packagers meeting for Mageia

The first packagers’ meeting took place the last Wednesday on the #mageia-dev IRC channel on Freenode. About 25 people attended, and many proposed to help both experienced and beginner packagers. Almost 2 hours of constructive discussion, here’re the logs and … Continue reading

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