Mageia

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

Mageia 3

  • Updated 01/26/2013
Download:http://www.mageia.org/3/
Info:https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_beta2
Ranked 2 in Distrowatch
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07685

Install Sugar

  • NOTE: still testing Jan 25 2013
  • add programs - search sugar or task-sugar

Mageia 2

  • Updated --Satellit 20:57, 25 May 2012 (EDT)
Great News;
Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator 0.95.3. [1]
Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [2]
(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 GNOME 3.4.1 Shell on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 netbook
Runs GNOME 3 in fallback mode in VirtualBox
This is just released

Downloads

http://www.mageia.org/en/2/
http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/

Tutorials: 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 (official) 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
Chat              76 ok
Browse           131 ok  have to go to frame top bar and stop browse  (no Top control bar with stop) {cairo context}
image Viewer      17 ok
JukeBox           23 ok
Calculate         38 ok
Log               26 ok
*write            77 no  (Failed to start)
Terminal          35 ok
turtle art       122 ok
*Etoys           115 no  Does not start due to DBusError:/usr/bin/sugar-presence-service exited status 1
pippy             43 ok

*Downloaded from ASLO
irc               10 ok
Activities Update
  • Offered but does not work
pippy             46
Turtle Art       140
terminal          37
Write             79
Log               28
calculate         40
jukebox           24
imageviewer       20
Browse           137

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:Mageia

Download

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

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

RPMS

Notes

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

ToolKit