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 0.95.3 to Mageia 2 alpha3

TNIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTON --Satellit 19:06, 19 February 2012 (EST)

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-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso

Boot Live CD

Use Live Installer (Drakelive-install)

Use whole Disk

Choose Gnome
Boots to Login Screen Gnome is default
GNOME 3.3.5 (after updates) see below
Session..

GNOME

GnomeClassic

IceWM

drak3d

Fallback mode Gnome3 (after updates GNOME3 shell runs correctly)

Update Mageia

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) 526 files 2012/02/19

Re-Boot

Install & Remove Software

Search: "Sugar"

Select sugar-emulator 0.95.3 1.mga2

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

Workaround for task sugar

Enter terminal

su
password
'urpmi task-sugar --allow-force
installs 64 rpms

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 N/A

jabber.sugarlabs.org works
Wireless AP's show and log in; Ad-Hoc AP's show in f1 network neighborhood
Uses keyring to access sugar
More Updates (89)--Satellit 20:05, 19 February 2012 (EST)
most activities will not start

Activities

log 26 ==>27
turtle art 122 ==>131
pippy 43 ==>46
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