Mageia

 

Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2
Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

Mageia 2 alpha 2

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

Blog

Reviews

Mailing list

Mirrors

http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/iso/cauldron/

IRC

Make a Live CD/USB

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

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

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

Bugs

https://bugs.mageia.org/
https://bugs.mageia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mageia

RPMS

Notes

It is hoped that sugar will be available here, as it is based on Mandriva 2010.2

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