Mageia

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2 alpha 2

new; Dec 15 2011--Satellit 11:10, 19 December 2011 (EST)
Release Notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_alpha2
Announcement: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/12/15/next-step-alpha-2-is-ready-to-test/

Here's the next milestone on the way to Mageia 2 - alpha 2 ISO images are ready for download.
Major new features: ships with the latest stable release of the kernel 3.1 with support for improved virtualisation with Xen native support,
improved performances and new subsystem such as a new iSCSI stack or NFC, and better security with the Tomoyo framework;
latest stable glibc 2.14.1; Systemd for booting; with KDE 4.7.4 with the target of reaching 4.8.x for final release;
GNOME 3.3.3 with the target of reaching 3.4.x for final release; up-to-date LXDE packages, including PCManFM 0.0.10; Sugar 0.95 is in the repository.....

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/

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 Login Screen(GDM) GNOME3 is default

Session

GNOME
GnomeClassic <== use this option
IceWM
Sugar (After install detailed below)
drak3d

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     (distrib 1)
x         x     Core Updates     (distrib 3)
                NonFree Updates (distrib 13)
                Tainted Updates  (distrib 23)

(OK)

Update your System

(long Download)

Re-Boot

Install & Remove Software

Search: "Sugar"

Select all sugar 0.95.1 items except for:

sugar-browse-activity (unsatisfied hulaop) 2 instances
sugar-fructose (sugar-write-activity[>=77])
sugar-read-activity (gnome-python-evince[>=2.26.O]
task-sugar (needs gstreamerO.10-espeak[>0.3.3])

Apply

Exit Magia Control Center
start sugar-emulator with: Applications/Education/Sugar
NO browser is a problem.

the applications Browse and Surf-115 have missing dependencies (see above) and do not start.

Firefox-6.xo works if installed with Drag-Drop install

But does not save to the sugar-journal as it is not properly "sugarized" (integrated into sugar)

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