Mageia

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2

Updated --[--Satellit 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 05:50, 11 March 2012 (EDT)

Great News;
Mageia-2  has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
This is another Community Distribution for sugar [2]
Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [3]
(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 Gnome3  in fallback mode in VirtualBox
This is just released
Gnome 3.2.1
[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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia
[3] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

Downloads

Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/

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

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

Tutorials: Introduction to the sugar interface

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#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

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

Browse           132 ok  have to go to frame top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}
Chat              74 ok  
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

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