Mageia

Mageia

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2 Beta 1

• Mageia 2 Beta 1: http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/ --Satellit 16:10, 21 February 2012 (EST)
• Announcement: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/21/mageia-2-is-approaching-test-mageia-2-beta-1/
• http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/get/?q=Mageia-2-beta1-i586-DVD.iso

Downloads

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

http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso

http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso

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

http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso

Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia Beta 1

updated--Satellit 12:48, 10 March 2012 (EST)

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

• Install Mageia-2-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso

Install Gnome from i586 Dk

• Choose Gnome
• Boots to Login Screen Gnome is default

• Fallback mode Gnome3 (after updates GNOME3 shell runs correctly)

Update Mageia

• Magia Control Center (Drakconf.real)
• Configure media sources for install and update

Click Add

(Long Download)

Check these Mirror Lists:

Enabled/ Updates
                CD-ROM Core Media  <==(Uncheck this)
X               Core Release     
x         x     Core Updates     
                NonFree Updates  
                Tainted Updates  

(OK)

• Exit Magia Control Center
• Enter terminal

su
password
'urpmi task-sugar --allow-force
installs 113 rpms

• log out
• Log in to sugar on gdm bar

About my Computer

Build:            Mageia release 2 (Cauldron) for i586
Sugar:            0.95.1
Firmware:         Virtualbox
Wireless Firmware N/A

• jabber.sugarlabs.org works

Activities

Turtle Art       122 ok
Write             77 no failed to start
Pippy             43 ok
Terminal          35 ok
Calculate         38 ok
image Viewer      17 ok
Log               26 ok
Chat              73 ok
JukeBox           23 ok
Etoys            113 ok
Browse           131 ok  have to go to top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop)

Activities Update

Browse           132
Chat              74 ok  have to go to top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}
Log               27 ok
Pippy             46 ok
Write             78 no failed to start
Turtle Art       131 ok

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

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/

Notes

• Creating a chroot: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packagers_chroot

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

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/