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===Mageia 2=== | ===Mageia 2=== | ||
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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 | + | : 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.) | ||
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: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 | + | :Runs GNOME 3.4.1 in Gnome-classic in VirtualBox |
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− | *[1 | + | *[1] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia |
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====Downloads==== | ====Downloads==== | ||
*Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/ | *Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/ | ||
− | :http://www.mageia.org/en/2/ | + | :[2] http://www.mageia.org/en/2/ |
:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/ | :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 | ||
+ | [[File:Mageia2-sugar.png]] | ||
+ | *Sugar: About my Computer | ||
+ | [[File: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==== | ====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. | ||
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===Web Site=== | ===Web Site=== |
Revision as of 19:33, 10 March 2013
- 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://www.mageia.org/3/
- Info:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_beta2
- Ranked 2 in Distrowatch
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
- Mageia 2 https://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
- A series of annotated screen shots describing basic Sugar-desktop operations and how to do them.
Web Site
Blog
Reviews
- http://blog.cdelfino.com/2011/02/mageia-alpha-release-mini-review/
- http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
Mailing list
Mirrors
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
- Port of liveusb-creator (git) https://github.com/saispo/mageia-usbdumper
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
Download
- 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
- http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso1:alpha1_errata Virtualbox 3 fix and fix for bootsplash
RPMS
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