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: '''Detailed info on install methods: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_installation_media''' | : '''Detailed info on install methods: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_installation_media''' | ||
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Revision as of 17:29, 9 July 2012
- Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
- Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
Mageia 2
- Updated --Satellit 20:57, 25 May 2012 (EDT)
- Great News;
- Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
- Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [2]
- (Mageia is the independent fork of Mandriva built by a majority of the Mandriva developers.)
- -there are some missing headers in applications, but sugar works well.
- Runs GNOME 3.4.1 Shell on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 netbook
- Runs GNOME 3 in fallback mode in VirtualBox
- This is just released
- [1] http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/2/Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso.md5
- [2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
Downloads
- Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
Tutorials: Introduction to the Sugar Interface
- A series of annotated screen shots describing basic Sugar-desktop operations and how to do them.
Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia-2
updated------Satellit 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)Satellit 21:26, 10 March 2012 (EST)
- Initial request to include task-sugar: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969
- Install http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/2/Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso
- Add Programs:
- Search sugar
- Install task-sugar, sugar-emulator
About my Computer
Build: Mageia release 2 (official) for i586 Sugar: 0.95.1 Firmware: Virtualbox Wireless Firmware N/A
- jabber.sugarlabs.org works
Frame
- fix so cursor raises frame at sides and bottom of screen
- Move bottom slider fully left
- restart
Activities
Chat 76 ok
Browse 131 ok have to go to frame top bar and stop browse (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}
image Viewer 17 ok
JukeBox 23 ok
Calculate 38 ok
Log 26 ok
*write 77 no (Failed to start)
Terminal 35 ok
turtle art 122 ok
*Etoys 115 no Does not start due to DBusError:/usr/bin/sugar-presence-service exited status 1
pippy 43 ok
*Downloaded from ASLO
irc 10 ok
Activities Update
- Offered but does not work
pippy 46 Turtle Art 140 terminal 37 Write 79 Log 28 calculate 40 jukebox 24 imageviewer 20 Browse 137
Web Site
Blog
Reviews
- http://blog.cdelfino.com/2011/02/mageia-alpha-release-mini-review/
- http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
Mailing list
Mirrors
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
- Port of liveusb-creator (git) https://github.com/saispo/mageia-usbdumper
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
Initial Release Notes
Download
- 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/
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
- Beta Release 02/21/2012
Bugs
- http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso1:alpha1_errata Virtualbox 3 fix and fix for bootsplash
RPMS
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