Dandifying Mageia – Adding the DNF stack to Mageia
There’s a lot of good things coming to Mageia 6: KDE Plasma 5 desktop, updates to other desktop environments, many new games, and a fresh coat of paint with a new visual style. However, there’s quite a...
View ArticleOur warm thanks to a long time contributor and friend
It is with a heavy heart that we address our warmest thanks to our friend Thomas Spuhler for his Mandriva and Mageia contributions over the last decade. After fighting colon cancer for over a year, he...
View ArticleWeekly roundup – 2017, week 9
Given how well-received last week’s roundup was, we are continuing to deliver news about what is happening in Mageia. Cauldron Tests by the QA team showed that the infamous partitioning bug (mga#20074)...
View ArticleWeekly roundup – 2017, week 10
Cauldron This week saw a huge milestone for Mageia 6: the release of our second stabilisation snapshot, “sta2“. It is the product of 8 months of work since the previous milestone, sta1, and the quality...
View ArticleWeekly roundup 2017 – week 14
Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work,...
View ArticleDandifying Mageia, Part 2
In our previous blog post on “dandifying Mageia” (nearly a year ago!), we introduced DNF in Mageia 6 to the world. Since then, we’ve been keeping pace and tracking upstream development in Cauldron. By...
View ArticleChronicle in May
It’s been a very long time since you’ve heard from us on this blog. Now it’s time to give you some fresh news, because no matter what it seems, a lot of work has been done since then. Organization...
View ArticleMore Progress for Mageia 8 – Beta 1 is available for testing
We are happy to announce the release of Mageia 8 Beta 1. After the good feedback from Alpha 1, there have been some improvements and fixes for this release, we look forward to hearing your feedback...
View ArticleGet involved with Mageia, become a Packager
With Mageia 8 just released and development for Mageia 9 getting underway in Cauldron, the unstable branch of Mageia, now is a great time to get involved with packaging. We are starting to look at the...
View ArticleSo you are not good enough to contribute?
This blog post is especially written for those among us who could free up some time to contribute, but refrain from doing so because they think they are not good enough.The last section is for former...
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