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Liberdade na Fronteira : Mageia 3 is out!
May 20, 2013 - No comments yet
In the night of May 18, mages, sorcerers, witches, and fairies took from the cauldron the new stable release of Mageia, now in your third version.
Mageia is a community Linux distribution based on Mandriva. This version have several softwares in their recent versions: KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6, XFCE 4.10, Linux 3.8, systemd 195, rpm 4.11, LibreOffice 4.0.3, and more.
This release is dedicated to Eugeni Dodonov, former employer in Mandiva and a great free software developer. In your last work, Dodonov was in Intel developing a better integration between Intel graphics cards and Linux kernel. Dodonov died very young. He was cycling when was hit by a car. This accident happened in Sao Carlo city, Brazil, in 2012.
This release is special for me because the packages that I am the maintainer are available for Mageia users now. I am packing SWI-Prolog and abnTeX2. I intend make packages for scientific softwares and KDE stuff like themes and plasma applets. And, maybe, make a package to Cave Story because it is a beautiful game and everyone must play it! =)
Release notes, download link, tutorials to update from Mageia 2, and more news are here.
Mageia Blog (English) : All grown up and ready to go dancing: Mageia 3′s out!
May 19, 2013 - No comments yetWe still can’t believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we’ve been doing it for two and a half years.
For people who can’t wait, get it here; release notes are here. To upgrade from Mageia 2, see here.
Before we get to the rest of the information: we dedicate this release to the memory of Eugeni Dodonov, our friend, our colleague and a great inspiration to those he left behind. We miss his brilliance, his courtesy and his dedication.
What’s new in Mageia 3?
You can take a look at the complete list of packages upgraded from Mageia 2, by checking the Mageia Apps Database:
- Applications – see all the new and updated applications in Mageia 3;
- All updated packages – see all the packages with new versions
Major new features
- Updates to RPM (4.11) and urpmi, which has been given a good Mageia turnout and cleanup
- Kernel 3.8
- systemd 195
- GRUB is the default bootloader; GRUB2 is available to test.
- Revamped package groupings for installation and rpmdrake
- KDE 4.10.2
- GNOME 3.6.
- Xfce 4.10
- Libreoffice 4.0.2
AND: Steam for linux!
See the Release Notes and Mageia App DB for the complete list.
Why choose Mageia?
Community
We all work together – to make the best distribution we can, and to help each other. Come and join us, and make some of the best friends you’ll ever meet – on IRC, on the Forums, in any of the teams, on Google+ , on Facebook – or follow us on Twitter.
Open Support
Mageia’s bug reporting system is open to everyone, as are the mailing lists and community support. That makes it easier for you to have your voice heard and follow what is happening. And access to our fully tested and prompt security updates is free of charge for everyone.
Looking good!
You’ll notice that we have updated our logo! Thanks to Nicolas Duval for this great design. Still Mageia, still the cauldron, but with a real Mageia quirk…
Thanks again to Leo for our great new background. Mageia’s Atelier team hopes you’ll like our new look as much as we liked making it.
We couldn’t do it without…
Our heartfelt thanks go to all the people who donated their time to make this release possible, and all the people who donated money allowing us to buy the servers that we use to build the distribution.
All of us Mageians have been depending on Gandi and Ielo, who have been quietly sponsoring Mageia since the begining of the project. Gandi has been providing us machines on their cloud infrastructure that we use to host the blog and the website. Ielo has been providing space in their datacenter, and the network connection, to host all our other servers that we use for all the Mageia infrastructure such as the packages build system, bug tracker, mailing lists, main mirror, etc… Thank you!
Welcome to Mageia 3!
Mageia Blog (English) : Mageia European tour 2013
May 18, 2013 - No comments yetMageia will be present at the major European Linux events this year, as we have done in previous years.
We have already attended FOSDEM, where we held our general assembly.
In the coming weeks, the tour will go on.
The first event will be Linuxtag in Berlin (Germany). Linuxtag is the leading Open Source and Linux event in Europe. This year is the 19th Linuxtag and the 7th that will take place at the Berlin fair grounds. Linuxtag will take place from May 22nd until May 25th.
Mageia will have a booth there, where we will present the project and the brand new Mageia 3 release. You will have the chance to meet us there, and ask us any questions about the project you always wanted to ask!
As usual, we will have a Mageia dinner on Friday evening. If you want to join us there, just come by our booth and ask us about the place and time.
After Linuxtag, we will be at Solutions Linux in Paris (France), which will take place on May 28th and May 29th. You will be able to meet some of the supporters and developpers of your favorite distribution and get some goodies like tee-shirts or stickers… and of course discover Mageia 3 release!
And that’s not all! Mageia people will also attend RMLL in Bruxelles (Belgium), which will take place from July 6th to July 11th at the ULB.
And then we will be at FrOSCon on August 24th and 25th. FrOSCon is organized by the students of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg near Cologne (Germany).
The last event of this year’s tour will be OpenRheinRuhr on November 9th and 10th at the industry museum in Oberhausen (Germany).
Mageia Blog (English) : Mageia Days – meeting each other in person
May 14, 2013 - No comments yetOn a daily basis, the Mageia community uses a variety of communication tools such as mailing-lists, IRC and forums. In addition to our online presence, we think we definitely need to have direct meetings so that Mageia people can meet each other and speak directly. Knowing each other better in real life can help our daily communication to work better.
So: we are planning 2 Mageia days during RMLL in July. These days will be dedicated to discussions around Mageia’s organization and the forthcoming release. Here are the proposed topics:
- Technical specifications for Mageia 4
- Mageia organization: how to improve our current organization?
- Managing relationships with local communities
- Packaging training for beginners
- Bug triaging for beginners
- QA for beginners
- Working on Mageia visibility
We are checking at the moment how many people could be around to participate. The date would be 8th and 9th of july in Bruxelles.
If you are interested in it please add your name here: Mageia Days on the wiki
Liberdade na Fronteira : Downloading SRPM build requires using urpmi
May 5, 2013 - No comments yetSeveral Linux distributions have specific commands to download build requires of a package. For example, Debian and its derivatives have apt-get build-dep; in OpenSUSE is zypper si -d; Fedora have yum-builddep; etc.
There is in Mandriva and derivatives distros using urpmi a command to do this too! But it is mandatory to link the package SRPM source.
The command is:
urpmi –buildrequires <package.src.rpm>
Remember, there are two hyphens in buildrequires option. You must to substitute <package.src.rpm> for the src.rpm package address. For example, to download Choqok build requires you uses::
urpmi –buildrequires ftp://mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br/mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/choqok-1.3-5.mga3.src.rpm
To find the SRPM package you must visit a repository of your distro and copy the complete package name. For example, there is a Tier 1 repository to Mageia in C3SL, the link is http://mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br/mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/.