Mageia


 * Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
 * Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia_5_beta3

 * Updated 02/15/2015
 * https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_beta3


 * Release Notes
 * https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Release_Notes


 * Download
 * http://www.mageia.org/en/5/
 * http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso
 * http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso
 * http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mageia.org/pub/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD.iso

Mageia 3

 * Updated 03/31/2013


 * Download:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/


 * beta 4
 * http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-3-beta4-i586-DVD/Mageia-3-beta4-i586-DVD.iso
 * http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD.iso
 * http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/03/10/mageia-3-beta-3-is-finally-out/
 * Release Notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_beta3
 * Errata:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_Errata#Live
 * http://www.mageia.org/3/
 * http://www.mageia.org/en/about/


 * Ranked 2 in Distrowatch:http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
 * http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
 * http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07685

Install Sugar
Update 03/11/2013
 * NOTE: Sugar-emulator 0.98.3 and task-sugar 0.96.0 offered but show up as white screens
 * add programs - search sugar or task-sugar


 * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969#c24

Mageia 2

 * Great News;
 * Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
 * Ranked 2 in Distrowatch [2]
 * (Mageia is the independent fork of Mandriva built by a majority of the Mandriva developers.)
 * Runs GNOME 3.4.1 Shell on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 netbook
 * Runs GNOME 3.4.1 in Gnome-classic in VirtualBox


 * [1] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

Downloads

 * Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
 * [2] http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
 * http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/

Install Sugar

 * Updated March 10 2013
 * Do not update Mageia (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0 will cause browse to fail)


 * add programs - search sugar
 * Choose task-sugar and sugar-emulator


 * Sugar: About my Computer
 * Problems:
 * Sugar Jabber connection fails if anything is changed in the sugar control panel
 * Known Bug in sugar 0.95.x
 * Update of Mageia: (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0) will cause browse to fail.

Tutorials: Introduction to the Sugar Interface

 * Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface
 * A series of annotated screen shots describing basic Sugar-desktop operations and how to do them.

Web Site

 * mageia web site (read this first)

Blog

 * http://blog.mageia.org/
 * http://identi.ca/tag/mageia

Reviews

 * http://blog.cdelfino.com/2011/02/mageia-alpha-release-mini-review/
 * http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

Mailing list

 * https://www.mageia.org/mailman/

Mirrors

 * http://mirrors.mageia.org/
 * http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/
 * http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/

IRC

 * Freenode #mageia #mageia-dev
 * Join mageia chat room for Help in English
 * Join mageia-dev chat room for Help in English

Make a Live CD/USB

 * http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Draklive
 * Port of liveusb-creator (git) https://github.com/saispo/mageia-usbdumper
 * http://saispo.org/mageia-usbdumper-est-la (FRENCH)

dd install to USB
dd if=mageia-livecd-1-KDE4-europe1-americas-cdrom-i586.iso of=/dev/sd(x) (x)=your device name eg: /dev/sdb;/dev/sdc....etc 1419264+0 records in 1419264+0 records out 726663168 bytes (727 MB) copied, 273.084 s, 2.7 MB/s
 * example

Mageia 1

 * First release 06/01/2011
 * http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/06/01/mageia-1/

Initial Release Notes
Talk:Mageia

Download

 * Updated 04/11/2013


 * http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/1/
 * End of Life:http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/12/02/mageia-1-eol
 * http://mageia.org/en/downloads/
 * https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/1/


 * Readme and iso contents Talk:Mageia
 * Detailed info on install methods: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_installation_media
 * http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mageia/
 * http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mageia/distrib/1/i586/install/images/

Cauldron

 * Not available after release (Development Builds)


 * https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/
 * http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/iso/cauldron/
 * Task-sugar added 08/15/2011: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969
 * Mageia 1 06/01/2011 released
 * beta2-dvd  25/04/2011
 * Alpha Release 15/02/2011
 * Beta Release 02/21/2012

Bugs

 * https://bugs.mageia.org/
 * https://bugs.mageia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mageia


 * http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso1:alpha1_errata Virtualbox 3 fix and fix for bootsplash

RPMS

 * http://members.hellug.gr/xrg/Mandriva/2010.1/RPMS/x86_64/

ToolKit

 * http://magcius.mecheye.net/shell/docs/st/