Mageia

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 3

• Updated 03/11/2013

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

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

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

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: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/

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

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/