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/

http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD/Mageia-2-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso

Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia 2 alpha2

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-alpha2-LiveCD-KDE-Europe1-Americas-i586

Boot Live CD

Use Live Installer (Drakelive-install)

Use whole Disk

Boots to Login Screen KDE is default

Session

Default
Custom
IceWM
KDE4
Sugar (After install detailed below)
drak3d
Failsafe

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     
x         x     Core Updates     
                NonFree Updates  
                Tainted Updates

(OK)

Update your System

(long Download)

Re-Boot

Install & Remove Software

Search: "Sugar"

Select sugar-emulator 0.95,1

Apply

(Task-sugar 0.95.1 will not install due to missing dependencies)

(Individual items in sugar are no longer displayed here)

Exit Magia Control Center
Enter Konsole

su
password
urpmi task-sugar --allow-force
installs 80 of 90 rpms
message gnome-keyring: no socket to connect to
This message is due to no gnome; With DVD install this message does not appear

start sugar-emulator with: Applications/Education/Sugar
Drag sugar ICON from favorites to desktop

properties sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

About my Computer

Build:            Mageia release 2 (Cauldron) for i586
Sugar:            0.95.1
Firmware:         v1.05
Wireless Firmware wlan0:N/A eth0:N/A

Activities

log 27
turtle art 129
pippy 44
etoys 115 (DOES NOT START)
chat 73 (Does not share on neighborhood f1)
image viewer 17
calculate 38
terminal 35
jukebox 23
write 77 (DOES NOT START)

Drag-Drop install from 2nd USB-stick

firefox 6
surf-115 (DOES NOT START)
IRC 10

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

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