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Mageia

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2

Updated --[--Satellit 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 05:50, 11 March 2012 (EDT)

Great News;
Mageia-2  has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
This is another Community Distribution for sugar [2]
Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [3]
(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 Gnome3  in fallback mode in VirtualBox
This is just released
Gnome 3.2.1
[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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia
[3] 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

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#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

Search sugar

Install task-sugar, sugar-emulator

About my Computer

Build:            Mageia release 2 (Cauldron) 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

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 frame top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}

Activities Update

Browse           132 ok  have to go to frame top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}
Chat              74 ok  
Log               27 ok
Pippy             46 ok
Write             78 no failed to start
Turtle Art       131 ok

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

Mageia 1

First release 06/01/2011

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/06/01/mageia-1/

Initial Release Notes

Talk:Community/Distributions/Mageia

Download

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

https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/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/

Notes

Creating a chroot: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packagers_chroot

Cauldron

Not available after release (Development Builds)

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/

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 :Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
 ::Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
-===Mageia 2 Beta 1===
+===Mageia 2===
-*Updated --[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 05:50, 11 March 2012 (EDT)
+*Updated --[--[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 05:50, 11 March 2012 (EDT)
-*Announcement: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/21/mageia-2-is-approaching-test-mageia-2-beta-1/
+ Great News;
-*http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-beta1-i586/Mageia-2-beta1-i586-DVD.iso
+ Mageia-2  has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
-*http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-2-beta1-x86_64/Mageia-2-beta1-x86_64-DVD.iso
+ This is another Community Distribution for sugar [2]
+ Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [3]
+ (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 Gnome3  in fallback mode in VirtualBox
+ This is just released
+ Gnome 3.2.1
+ [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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia
+ [3] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
 ====Downloads====
-*Mageia 2 Beta 1: http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/
+*Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
 :http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
 :http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
@@ Line 17: / Line 26: @@
 :A series of annotated screen shots describing basic sugar-desktop operations and how to do them.
-====Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia Beta 1====
+====Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia-2====
-updated----[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 21:26, 10 March 2012 (EST)
+updated------[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 10:34, 25 May 2012 (EDT)[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 21:26, 10 March 2012 (EST)
 :Initial request to include task-sugar: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969
-*Install Mageia Beta 1-i586-DVD.iso
+*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
-::Install Gnome from i586
+*Add Programs:
-*Choose Gnome
+:Search sugar
-*Setup eth0
+:Install task-sugar, sugar-emulator
-* Updates at end of install
-:Error:retrieving failed aria2..
-*Reboot
-*Boots to Login Screen Gnome is default
-*Choose "Gnome Classic" from gdm
-*Tools/System Tools/Magia Control Center
-=====Configure media sources for install and update=====
-: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'''
-:Webkit dependency
-:1-) libwebkit-girl3.0-1.7.5-1.mga2.i586
-:2-) libwebkit-girl1.0-1.7.5-1.mga2.i586
-:What is you choice (1 or 2)
-:'''1'''
- installs 93 rpms
-*System Settings/Details
- Gnome 3.3.5
- Forced Fallback Mode:  turn to '''ON'''
-*log out
-*Log in to '''sugar''' on gdm bar dropdown menu
 =====[[Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Introduction_to_Sugar_Interface#Home_.28or_f3.29_Boot_Screen|About my Computer]]=====

Difference between revisions of "Mageia"

Revision as of 10:34, 25 May 2012

Contents

Mageia

Mageia 2

Downloads

Tutorials: Introduction to the sugar interface

Adding Sugar 0.95.1 to Mageia-2

About my Computer

Frame

Activities

Activities Update

Web Site

Blog

Reviews

Mailing list

Mirrors

IRC

Make a Live CD/USB

dd install to USB

Mageia 1

Initial Release Notes

Download

Notes

Cauldron

Bugs

RPMS

Notes

ToolKit

Navigation menu

Search