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===Mageia 2===
 
===Mageia 2===
*Updated --[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 20:57, 25 May 2012 (EDT)
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:Great News;
 
:Great News;
 
: Mageia-2  has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
 
: Mageia-2  has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
: Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [2]
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: Ranked 2 in Distrowatch [2]
 
: (Mageia is the independent fork of Mandriva built by a majority  of the Mandriva developers.)
 
: (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 3.4.1 Shell on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 netbook
:Runs GNOME 3 in fallback mode in VirtualBox
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:Runs GNOME 3.4.1 in Gnome-classic in VirtualBox
: This is just released
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*[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
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*[1] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
*[2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
 
 
====Downloads====
 
====Downloads====
 
*Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
 
*Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
:http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
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:[2] http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
 
:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
 
:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
 
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====Install Sugar====
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*Updated March 10 2013
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:'''Do not update Mageia (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0 will cause browse to fail)'''
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*add programs - search sugar
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: Choose task-sugar and sugar-emulator
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[[File:Mageia2-sugar.png]]
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*Sugar: About my Computer
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[[File:Mageia-2.png]]
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*Problems:
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:Sugar Jabber connection fails if anything is changed in the sugar control panel
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::Known Bug in sugar 0.95.x
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:Update of Mageia: (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0) will cause browse to fail.
 
====Tutorials: Introduction to the Sugar Interface====
 
====Tutorials: Introduction to the Sugar Interface====
 
*[[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.
 
: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------[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)[[User:Satellit|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
 
 
=====[[Tutorials/Introduction_to_the_Sugar_Interface#Home_.28or_f3.29_Boot_Screen|About my Computer]]=====
 
Build:            Mageia release 2 (official) for i586
 
Sugar:            0.95.1
 
Firmware:        Virtualbox
 
Wireless Firmware N/A
 
*jabber.sugarlabs.org works
 
 
=====[[Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface#Frame|Frame]]=====
 
*fix so cursor raises '''frame''' at sides and bottom of screen
 
:Move bottom slider fully left
 
:restart
 
 
=====[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ 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===
 
===Web Site===

Revision as of 19:33, 10 March 2013

Mageia-2011.png

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 3

  • Updated 03/10/2013
Download:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/03/10/mageia-3-beta-3-is-finally-out/
http://www.mageia.org/3/
Info:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_beta2
Ranked 2 in Distrowatch
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07685

Install Sugar

  • NOTE: still testing Jan 25 2013
  • add programs - search sugar or task-sugar

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

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

Mageia2-sugar.png

  • Sugar: About my Computer

Mageia-2.png

  • 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

A series of annotated screen shots describing basic Sugar-desktop operations and how to do them.

Web Site

Blog

Reviews

Mailing list

Mirrors

http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/

IRC

Make a Live CD/USB

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

Initial Release Notes

Talk:Mageia

Download

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

Cauldron

Not available after release (Development Builds)
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

RPMS

Notes

It is hoped that sugar will be available here, as it is based on Mandriva 2010.2

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