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==Mageia==
<noinclude>[[Category:Supported systems]]</noinclude>
:Linux Distribution based on Mandriva 2010.2
<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Mageia-2011.png|250px|link=http://www.mageia.org/]]</span>
::A number people from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
:Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
===Web Site===
::Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.
* '''[http://www.mageia.org/en/ mageia web site (read this first)]'''
===Mageia_5_beta3===
::Updated 02/15/2015
:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_beta3
*Release Notes
:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Release_Notes
*Download
:http://www.mageia.org/en/5/
::http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso
::http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso
::http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mageia.org/pub/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD.iso
===Mageia 3===
*Updated 03/31/2013
:Download:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
*beta 4
::http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-3-beta4-i586-DVD/Mageia-3-beta4-i586-DVD.iso
::http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD.iso
::http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/03/10/mageia-3-beta-3-is-finally-out/
::Release Notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_beta3
:Errata:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_Errata#Live
:http://www.mageia.org/3/
:http://www.mageia.org/en/about/
*Ranked 2 in Distrowatch:http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
::http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
::http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07685
====Install Sugar====
Update 03/11/2013
*NOTE: Sugar-emulator 0.98.3 and task-sugar 0.96.0 offered but show up as white screens
:add programs - search sugar or task-sugar
*https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969#c24
[[File:Mageia-3-beta3-task-sugar.png|700px]]
===Mageia 2===
:Great News;
: Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
: Ranked 2 in Distrowatch [2]
: (Mageia is the independent fork of Mandriva built by a majority of the Mandriva developers.)
:Runs GNOME 3.4.1 Shell on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 netbook
:Runs GNOME 3.4.1 in Gnome-classic in VirtualBox
*[1] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia
====Downloads====
*Mageia 2 https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
:[2] http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
:http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/
====Install Sugar====
*Updated March 10 2013
:'''Do not update Mageia (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0 will cause browse to fail)'''
*add programs - search sugar
: Choose task-sugar and sugar-emulator
[[File:Mageia2-sugar.png]]
*Sugar: About my Computer
[[File:Mageia-2.png]]
*Problems:
:Sugar Jabber connection fails if anything is changed in the sugar control panel
::Known Bug in sugar 0.95.x
:Update of Mageia: (Gtk2.0 => Gtk3.0) will cause browse to fail.
====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.
===Web Site===
* '''[http://www.mageia.org/en/ mageia web site (read this first)]'''
===Blog===
===Blog===
* http://blog.mageia.org/
* http://blog.mageia.org/
*http://identi.ca/tag/mageia
===Reviews===
===Reviews===
* http://blog.cdelfino.com/2011/02/mageia-alpha-release-mini-review/
* http://blog.cdelfino.com/2011/02/mageia-alpha-release-mini-review/
===Mirrors===
===Mirrors===
* http://mirrors.mageia.org/
* http://mirrors.mageia.org/
:http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/
:http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/
===IRC===
===IRC===
* Freenode #mageia #mageia-dev
* Freenode #mageia #mageia-dev
* '''[http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=mageia&prompt=1 Join mageia chat room for Help in English]'''
* '''[http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=mageia&prompt=1 Join mageia chat room for Help in English]'''
* '''[http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=mageia-dev&prompt=1 Join mageia-dev chat room for Help in English]'''
* '''[http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=mageia-dev&prompt=1 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====
::Updated 04/11/2013
*http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/1/
:End of Life:http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/12/02/mageia-1-eol
: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===
===Cauldron===
;Not available after release (Development Builds)
*https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/
*https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/
*http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/iso/cauldron/mageia-livecd-1-beta2-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso
*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
:beta2-dvd 25/04/2011
:Alpha Release 15/02/2011
:Alpha Release 15/Feb/2011
:Beta Release 02/21/2012
===Bugs===
===Bugs===
===Notes===
===Notes===
It is hoped that sugar will be available here, as it is based on Mandriva 2010.2
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/