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Mageia Blog (English) : Mageia at fête de l’humanité 2018
19 de Setembro de 2018, 11:56 - sem comentários aindaMageia was at “La fête de l’humanité“, the “Festival of Humanity” in English, represented by our own dtux who reports:
The booths were in a different place from previous years, and we had a lot more visitors. We gave out all the flyers we brought by Saturday evening – there was only one left for Sunday – so we gave out Mageia stickers instead. We did not sell any T-shirts, but we sold two USB sticks.
Many people asked for general information; I spoke so much that I lost my voice! We had strong interest, coming from people already using a Linux distribution as well as from people wishing to turn to free software.
For myself, at a communication level, I am very satisfied by this week end. I must thank the people who were with me: Alex, Kevin and Sayat. They really helped me, because I couldn’t have managed these days alone.
The next exhibition will be probably the “Capitol du Libre” in Toulouse (Southern France). If you’re interested in helping me to run the booth, please don’t hesitate to say so.
Thank you Dtux, and above all, anyone wanting to join him in November at Toulouse please introduce yourselves, with a comment on this blog, by a message in the MLO French forum, or by posting to the discuss-fr mailing list .
Mageia Blog (English) : Summer’s End Roundup 2018
15 de Setembro de 2018, 14:06 - sem comentários aindaAlthough it looked from the outside as if Mageians were sleeping through August, it wasn’t so! And now that it’s Autumn – fall for you folks in the North Americas – we’ll be more communicative, we promise.
![Image By Duncan Harris from Nottingham, UK (Autumn #4) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://blog.mageia.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/640px-Flickr_-_Duncan__-_Autumn_%5E4.jpg)
Work on the 6.1 Release is ongoing, and we hope to make an announcement really soon; in the meantime, we can let you know that no classical ISOs are planned, simply the LiveCDs and NetInstall. Watch this space!
There’s been a lot of updating going on, as the little blue circle with the down arrow, appearing in your system tray regularly, will have told you – and the dev and QA teams have managed to put in a lot of work, for people who were supposed to be on holiday!
As always, we encourage our community to join any of the Mageia teams – we welcome you, and we’d really like your help. To make a start, check out the teams at http://www.mageia.org/community/.
Important announcement:
Support for Mageia 5 is now officially ended! Please upgrade your systems to Mageia 6 as soon as you can, because no more security updates or bug fixes will be coming through. The update is available through the system tray icon, so please make use of it.
If you’re upgrading from KDE4 to Plasma, remember: there could be some issues with older video cards. If you’re not sure, make certain before you update that you have another, non-KDE desktop environment installed – Xfce is usually problem-free. Log in to that non-KDE environment before you begin the update.
When you’re updating, take the usual precautions, especially since the Grand Plasma Update has happened recently. Make sure you have enough space, and that your internet connection will remain active for the whole process – and if you’re using a laptop, make sure you have your power supply connected. If the process halts before it completes, your system could be unusable.
And now for the Roundup!
Bugfixes (Mageia 6 only):
- darktable
- java-1.8.0-openjfx
- nvidia-current
- flightgear, flightgear-data, simgear
- boomaga
- rust
- mageia-doc, desktop-common-data
- drakxtools, drakx-installer-stage2
- minetest
- mageiawelcome
- meta-task
- steam, steam-udevrules
- kajongg
- lutris
- supertuxkart
Security (mostly Mageia 6, but a few Mageia 5 – the very last!)
Mageia 5:
- mariadb
Mageia 5 & 6:
- mercurial
- openslp
Mageia 6:
- flash-player-plugin
- ntp
- wireshark
- libxkbcommon
- sleuthkit
- libgd
- java-1.8.0-openjdk
- openssl
- libxcursor
- openssh
- quazip
- libarchive
- virtualbox, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-vboxadditions
- poppler
- squirrelmail
- libraw
- thunderbird
- bind
- dpkg
- cgit
- sssd
- flash-player-plugin
- wpa_supplicant
- kernel-linus
- kernel-tmb
- kernel, kernel-userspace-headers, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons, wireguard-tools
- microcode
- chromium-browser-stable
- kernel-linus
- kernel-tmb
- libtomcrypt
- iceape
- kernel, kernel-userspace-headers, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons, wireguard-tools
- libsndfile
- mariadb
- lftp
- godot
- blender, yafaray
- soundtouch
- glpi
- openvpn
- libsoup
- libjpeg
- mp3gain
As always, you can check Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, and PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Enjoy!
PS: It’s really Spring in the Southern Hemisphere…
Liberdade na Fronteira : Akademy 2018
9 de Setembro de 2018, 15:17 - sem comentários ainda
Look for your favorite KDE contributor at Akademy 2018 Group Photo
This year I was in Vienna to attend Akademy 2018, the annual KDE world summit. It was my fourth Akademy after Berlin’2012 (in fact, Desktop Summit ), Brno’2014, and Berlin’2016 (together with QtCon). Interesting, I go to Akademy each 2 years – let’s try to improve it next year. 
After a really long travel I could meet gearheads from all parts of world, including Brazil, old and new friends working together to improve the free software computing experience, each one giving a small (and someone, giant) parts to make this dream in reality. Always I meet these people I feel me recharged to continue my work on this dream.
I loved the talk of Volker about KDE Itinerary, a new application to manage passbook files related to travels. It think an app just to manage all kind of passbook files (like tickets for concerts, theaters, and more) like this could be a interesting addition to KDE software family, and a step behind KDE Itinerary. Anyway, waiting for news from this software.
The talk about creating transitions in Kdenlive make me think on how interesting could be a plugin to run bash (or python, maybe) in order to automate several steps in some works performed by editors in this software. Maybe use KDE Store to share it… well, ideas.
I know Camilo during the event. His talk about vvave give me hope for a new and great audio player application for our family, as we had in the past.
The last talk called my attention was Nate about some ideas to improve our ecosystem. Nate is doing a great work at the usability side, polishing our software in several ways. I recommend his blog to follow this work. Despite I agree in general – like, we need improve our PIM suite – I have some disagreements with others, like the idea of KDE developers contributing to LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a completely different source code with different technologies and practices, there are several (and for most of us, not mapped) influences from different organizations inside the LibreOffice Foundation directing the development of the suite, and in the last we have Calligra Suite – the idea sounded as “let’s drop Calligra”. But it was just a disagreements for a small suggestion, nothing more.
After the talk sessions, Akademy had a plenty of BoFs sessions for all kind of preferences. I attended to KDE and Qt (it is always interesting to keep eyes on this topic), KDE Phabricator (Phabricator is an amazing set of tool but suffers because the competitors are much better known and the usability must be improved), and MyCroft (I like the idea of integration between MyCroft and Plasma, specially for specific use cases like assistant to disabled people – I am thinking about it since some months).
This year Aracele, Sandro and me hosted a BoF titled “KDE in Americas”. The idea was present some of our achievements for KDE in South America and discuss with fellows from Central and North America about a “continental” event, bringing back the old CampKDE to a new edition together with LaKademy (the secret name is LaKamp :D). This ideia must be matured in the future.
This year I tried to host a BoF about KDE in Science and Cantor, but unfortunately I didn’t have feedback on potential attendees. Let’s see if in future we can host some of them.
Akademy is an amazing event where you can meet KDE contributors from different tasks and cultures, discuss to them, get feedback for current projects and build new ones. I would like to thanks KDE e.V. for the sponsorship and expect see you again next year (let’s try to insert a disturbance in this biannual sequence) at Akademy or, in some weeks at LaKademy!
Brazilians at Akademy 2018: KDHelio, Caio, Sandro, Filipe (me), Tomaz (below), Eliakin, Aracele, and Lays
Mageia Blog (English) : Roundup 2018 – Weeks 28-30, an Anniversary, RMLL and more
30 de Julho de 2018, 10:50 - sem comentários aindaWhat’s been happening?
Astonishing numbers of people in the northern hemisphere have been vacationing, harvesting, fighting fires – but there’s still a heap of work happening. Thanks, Mageians!
Mageia 6.1 is getting closer all the time, and in the meantime, some of you might have noticed that the Mageia 5->6 update is now available through the systray icon – it’s been enabled once more. To have it work, you need to re-enable “check for new releases” in the Updates Frequency settings in Mageia Control Centre. You’ll also see a different version of the tray icon – instead of the blue circle with the down arrow, you’ll see the orange circle with a round arrow. This is to let you know that Mageia 5 is now officially out of date.
Some info from the QA team: if you’re upgrading from KDE4 to Plasma, there could be some issues with older video cards. If you’re not sure, make certain before you update that you have another, non-KDE desktop environment installed – XFce is usually problem-free. Log in to that non-KDE environment before you begin the update.
As with all larger updates, if you’re using a laptop, connect to AC power and make sure you have plenty of disk space available and a reliable internet connection.
Enjoy!
Oh, and did you know? our ancestor Mandrake Linux had its first release on 23 July 1998, 20 years ago! There are even some images around of the old, old logo with (shh!) The Hat, which we won’t show you – but here’s one of the Mandrake boxed sets – quite a late one… Lots of us began our journey with some version of Linux Mandrake, and then Mandriva, and now Mageia!
RMLL went really well! Our thanks to all those who helped out.
We had enough Mageians to man the stand, and it was great to meet one another, to meet interested users and potential users and to meet contributors from other projects.
DTux had brought his well-working RaspberryPi with Mageia 6, and he had also brought an Odroid that runs Mageia – both attracted lots of interest from visitors.
Many of the visitors were most interested in security; that was something new. That was undoubtedly caused by the paper copy of a great comprehensive French book about digital self-defense from boum.org that was on our table. If you read French, you can buy it (or read a digital version for free) here: http://guide.boum.org/
Now for the roundup – it’s fairly big, sorry for the delay!
Bugfix updates since the last roundup (Mga6 only):
- wine
- nvidia-current
- python-slugify, transifex-client
- grub2
- kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, virtualbox
- openmpi, plplot, healpix, aspic
- qdigidoc
- nextcloud
- java-1.8.0-openjfx
Security updates:
- nspr, nss, rootcerts, thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n Mga5
- w3m Mga5, 6
- graphviz Mga5, 6
- wesnoth Mga6
- kernel, kernel-userspace-headers, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons, wireguard-tools Mga6
- kernel-firmware-nonfree, radeon-firmware Mga6
- microcode Mga6
- wireshark Mga6
- ffmpeg Mga6
- rust Mga6
- clamav Mga6
- thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n Mga6
- flash-player-plugin Mga6
- cantata Mga6
- mailman Mga6
- perl-Archive-Zip Mga6
- nikto Mga6
- redis Mga6
- chromium-browser-stable Mga6
And, of course, a whole heap (we didn’t count this time) of updates into Cauldron.
Don’t forget, you can check Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, and PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Mageia Blog (English) : Final Call for RMLL, the Wiki and a Roundup
4 de Julho de 2018, 10:58 - sem comentários aindaHa! It looked like another 2-week gap, but we’re not quite that late, thankfully.
Final Call for RMLL volunteers 
Mageia will be present with a stand in at RMLL in Strasbourg, but we have very few volunteers who have put their names down for the stand: https://framadate.org/dbLxWJPnci6o6aqb If you’re going to be there, please go to that signup page and let us know – RMLL starts this coming Saturday, so we need you urgently!
New look for the Wiki
The new Wiki front page is up – feast your eyes on this: 
Thanks once again to Zalappy for the design, and apb for all the work to make it happen.
Behind the Scenes
While all that was happening, devs and QA have been quietly working away as always – 388 packages into Cauldron! Here’s the list of updates since the last Roundup:
Security
- libgcrypt – Mga5
- ansible – Mga5, 6
- taglib – Mga5, 6
- firefox, firefox-l10n – Mga6
- phpmyadmin – Mga6
- webkit2 – Mga6
- libgcrypt – Mga6
- ncurses – Mga6
- java-1.8.0-openjdk, copy-jdk-configs – Mga6
Bugfix (Mga 6 only)
- rust
- perl-URPM, task-obsolete
- imagemagick
Don’t forget, you can check Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, and PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Thanks also for all the nice comments on the last post!
