Mageia

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Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2

Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution.

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

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

Sugar: About my Computer

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

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