Mageia

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

• http://www.mageia.org/en/about/

Install Sugar

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

Mageia 2

• Updated --Satellit 20:57, 25 May 2012 (EDT)

Great News;

Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]

Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [2]

(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 in fallback mode in VirtualBox

This is just released

• [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
• [2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

Downloads

• Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/

http://www.mageia.org/en/2/

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

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.

Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia-2

updated------Satellit 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)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

About my Computer

Build:            Mageia release 2 (official) for i586
Sugar:            0.95.1
Firmware:         Virtualbox
Wireless Firmware N/A

• jabber.sugarlabs.org works

Frame

• fix so cursor raises frame at sides and bottom of screen

Move bottom slider fully left

restart

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

• 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

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/