Mageia
Mageia
- Linux Distribution based on Mandriva 2010.2
- A number people from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
Mageia 2 alpha 1
- new; Nov 25 2011
Downloads
- http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586/
- http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586/
- 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
- 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 Gnome3-shell
- Magia Control Center (Drakconf.real)
- Configure media sources for install and update
- (Long Download)
- Check these Mirror Lists:
Enabled/ Updates
X Core Release (distrib 1)
x x Core Updates (distrib 3)
x NonFree Updates (distrib 13)
x Tainted Updates (distrib 23)
- Update your System
- (long Download)
- Install & Remove Software
- Find "Sugar"
- Select all sugar 0.95.1 items except for:
sugar-browse-activity (unsatisfied hulaop) sugar-fructose (sugar-write-activity[>=77]) sugar-pippy libgcc_s.so.1()(64 bit) sugar-read-activity (gnome-python-evince[>=2.26.O] sugar-write-activity task-sugar (needs gstreamerO.10-espeak[>0.3.3])
- Apply
- start sugar-emulator
- terminal
- root terminal
urpmi task-sugar --allow-force select abiword (1) or (2) EN OR FR
Release Notes Mageia 1
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
Talk:Community/Distributions/Mageia
Download
- http://mageia.org/en/downloads/
- https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/1/
- http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/iso/1/
- Readme and iso contents http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/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/
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
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