Mageia
Revision as of 13:26, 10 March 2012 by Satellit (talk | contribs) (→Configure media sources for install and update)
Mageia
- Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
- Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
Mageia 2 Beta 1
- Mageia 2 Beta 1: http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/ --Satellit 16:10, 21 February 2012 (EST)
- Announcement: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/21/mageia-2-is-approaching-test-mageia-2-beta-1/
- http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/get/?q=Mageia-2-beta1-i586-DVD.iso
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 Beta 1
updated--Satellit 12:48, 10 March 2012 (EST)
- Initial request to include task-sugar: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969
- Install Mageia-2-alpha3-i586-DVD.iso
- Install Gnome from i586 Dk
- Choose Gnome
- Boots to Login Screen Gnome is default
- Fallback mode Gnome3 (after updates GNOME3 shell runs correctly)
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)
- Exit Magia Control Center
- Enter terminal
su password 'urpmi task-sugar --allow-force installs 113 rpms
- log out
- Log in to sugar on gdm bar
About my Computer
Build: Mageia release 2 (Cauldron) for i586 Sugar: 0.95.1 Firmware: Virtualbox Wireless Firmware N/A
- jabber.sugarlabs.org works
Activities
Turtle Art 122 ok Write 77 no failed to start Pippy 43 ok Terminal 35 ok Calculate 38 ok image Viewer 17 ok Log 26 ok Chat 73 ok JukeBox 23 ok Etoys 113 ok Browse 131 ok have to go to top bar and stop browse (no Top control bar with stop)
Activities Update
Browse 132 Chat 74 ok have to go to top bar and stop browse (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context} Log 27 ok Pippy 46 ok Write 78 no failed to start Turtle Art 131 ok
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
- 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/
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
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