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Mageia

Linux Distribution based on Mandriva 2010.2

A number people from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2 alpha 1

new; Nov 25 2011

Downloads

http://www.mageia.org/en/2/

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586/

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586/

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

http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/dl.php?product=mageia-1-dvd-i586 DVD (FREE)

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/11/25/mageia-2-alpha1-ready-for-testing/

Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia 2 alpha1

This is not a complete install at this time

surf-115 and Browse do not start

Initial request to include task-sugar: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969

Run from Education/Sugar

Install Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586

Boot Live CD

Use Live Installer (Drakelive-install)

Custom Format;

/boot
swap 
/

Boots to Gnome3-shell

Magia Control Center (Drakconf.real)

Configure media sources for install and update

(Long Download)

Check these Mirror Lists:

Enabled/ Updates
X               Core Release     (distrib 1)
x         x     Core Updates     (distrib 3)
          x     NonFree Updates (distrib 13)
          x     Tainted Updates (distrib 23)

Update your System

(long Download)

Install & Remove Software

Find "Sugar"

Select all sugar 0.95.1 items except for:

sugar-browse-activity (unsatisfied hulaop)
sugar-fructose (sugar-write-activity[>=77])
sugar-pippy libgcc_s.so.1()(64 bit)
sugar-read-activity (gnome-python-evince[>=2.26.O]
sugar-write-activity
task-sugar (needs gstreamerO.10-espeak[>0.3.3])

Apply

start sugar-emulator

terminal

root terminal

urpmi task-sugar --allow-force
select abiword (1) or (2)  EN OR FR

Release Notes Mageia 1

http://mageia.org/en/1/notes/

Web Site

mageia web site (read this first)

Blog

Reviews

dd install to USB

example

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

Mageia 1

First release 06/01/2011

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

Initial Release Notes

Talk:Community/Distributions/Mageia

Download

http://mageia.org/en/downloads/

https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/1/

Readme and iso contents http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/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)

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

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/

Notes

It is hoped that sugar will be available here, as it is based on Mandriva 2010.2

Note I was told on IRC that task-sugar would be made available after the release. satellit
http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sciencesig

ToolKit

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

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 :http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586/