Another Distribution Joins LinuxQuestions.org - Mageia
 

I'm happy to announce that another distribution has joined LinuxQuestions.org. Please welcome Mageia.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/mageia-97/

I'd like to thank ennael, who helped get the forum setup and will be participating on behalf of Mageia, along with andré2.

--jeremy

First time I've heard of Mageia, may try it sometime soon. :)

For those interested, the official site is:

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

--jeremy

Welcome to LQ Mageia :)

Great stuff! I've always had a soft spot for Mandriva and in my eyes Mageia is Mandriva's true continuation/successor.

I'll give you a quick personal story about Mandriva. My first day working for Opera Software I was given my work machine with Ubuntu pre-installed. Upon picking up the machine I was told by our internal support that they had had some trouble setting up X with this new batch of machines and hence it was not configured. My options were either to wait for them to get it working or I could take the machine as is. Given it was my first day working in Opera's Desktop UNIX team I was keen to impress my colleagues and didn't want to look like I needed someone else to setup the machine for me, so I took it as is. I then spent a couple of hours using lynx (funny that I should join a browser company and spend my first hours using a different browser) reading online and trying to find out why X wouldn't work on this hardware. I started to worry I was taking to long and was keen to get on with some actual work. I then remembered that I had a Linux magazine in my bag, which included a cover LiveCD with Mandriva. I figured I would give it a shot. Upon firing up the LiveCD, X (and everything else) worked out of the box. In the end, I proceeded to install Mandriva and kept it around as my primary work distro for the next year and a half! ;)

So you see, for all Ubuntu's plaudits as the easiest distro to install and configure, my own personal experience that day was that Mandriva was even better. As Mandriva's spiritual successor (and with many of the same people involved) I hope the Magiea team continue to do such an excellent job!

Thanks for all these kind posts. We hope we will be able to drive you in Mageia community and have the best exeperience using it.
Cheers

@ennael: how is Mageia pronounced?

That was my first question as well.

Welcome to the board, it's nice to see Mandriva forked and being carried on. While I've never been a dedicated Mandriva user I used it enough times, it was a really good distro. Good luck to you and your venture, I'll be sure to set up an install of it and check it out soon!

My take on the pronunciation:

Mageia : Me' zh' ya
like in 'asia', but with an 'm' = 'masia'

or Mei' j' ya
as in 'mage' + 'ya'

As we usually answer, "pronounciation is as Magiea, it's free" :)

I am a long time newbie to the Linux world, and I am very happy to know that you have continued Mandrake / Mandriva with this new nice distribution.

Mandrake is my very first Linux Distro which I used early 2000 and enjoyed a lot! It always saved my life whenever I needed to format the entire computer. When I noticed the ease of use, I switched to Mandrake (Linux) from zinloz$ for a long time. Mandrake made me fall in love with LINUX world, indeed.

Right now I will download and try Mageia. Thank you all very much for your precious time!

Capt. Serdal

why CentOS is not in the list of distribution

As per my knowledge, CentOs is one from list of distribution.
I am not sure about it as I am new for this as well ;)
Waiting for the reply from someone Linux experts.

Welcome Mageia ! :)

I've had Magia 1 installed for a year, the next release is scheduled for May I believe.

I was a long time Mandrake/Mandriva user. i followed the fork, and do not regret it. Today, Slackware is my main distro. I have a Magia 1 system installed as backup.

Look and feel is much like Mandriva.

using Magiea ONE for a while one or two niggles but looking forward to May 22nd when TWO is released

great to have a place to ask questions all the best to all concerned

Good news !
I worked for a major telecommunications company in the past. I was intrigued by using Linux on the desktop, we had 60,000 Windows licenses. I tried Red Hat at first, since we used it on our servers but it did not work well on a desktop machine. I loaded Mandrake with KDE and the rest is history. We became a Mandrake/Mandrivia shop for all who wanted a Linux desktop machine.

I was ready to buy Slackware for my new machine but I'll wait until the new version of Mageia comes out and take a look/see.

Interesting...
 

Looks interesting... I might just download it to kick it around and see how stable their release candidates (RCs) are. Do you know if they have a 64-bit system extension to PAE kernel and scheduler ready for download or is it just straight 32-bit for the time being in their repositories?

You can get Slackware for free by the way. However, if you are not used to hardcore configuration options from terminal and text based setups, avoid the Slackware. It's not good for newbies and there are a lot of options to set. The best thing is to let it do the "Recommended" installation which requires a lot of hard disk space but it's worth it so you are not wading through all the options that see to keep going on and on. Basically, Slackware has no hand holding in the process of preparing one or more machines for service, so you better know what you are doing in that case of that distro. I won't knock it, that was the first major installation I liked when I first started way back in the day on Linux.

Also about RedHat Enterprise Linux, the desktops and the drivers that come with it are based on mass computer installations either as net-boot or through live media installation via CDs / DVDs. Problem being, if you are looking for the latest drivers for a traditional desktop, you are better off downloading what RHEL uses for research and development, the Fedora Project LTS series, aka Long Term Support.
You sacrifice stability for features and correct drivers for your machines you are installing that brand and distro of Linux on.

Before you installed it, you should look at the compatibility hardware list that RedHat has available to all people that are interested in using it on their system. The desktop environments in the workstation edition is very spartan / sparse. Most desktop users aren't used to such a bleak interface outright, takes awhile to get used to.

welcome here,I'll always be with you fighting on linux~~~

Next release will be arriving next Tuesday, ISOs are in testing stage already. Looking forward... \o/

Look & feel will follow the way it was with Mandriva 2010.x while Mandriva changed to a different style.

BTW: I just recognized that I were here already, long time ago (2004) with Linux Mandrake 10.0 - I have to update my profile ! :)

Will try it soon

I have used Mageia a fair amount and it's been a good experience. I don't know the full history of Mandrake and Mandriva, but they have a good product that has been apparently mismanaged. Mageia may be the future of this branch.

I am so glad that a Mageia forum opened up here. My first distro was Mandrake 10, since then I have jumped to many different distros, until about a year ago I moved back to Mandriva. I have had Mageia 1 for a couple of months now and I love it. I am looking forward to Mageia 2 in a couple of days!

Yes, every language has its own prononciation of letters and connected letters. Therefore people of different languages will pronounce it different. Linus Torvalds tried to tell people how Linux is pronounced correctly (not that he really cared about it) but he failed completely. :)

So why should we care? World domination is much easier to accomplish!

There are full 64 bits versions of Mageia, just choose the one you need :)

So till when Mageia 2 will be supported ? As per their homepage -

Lifecycle
Mageia releases are supported at least for 18 months.

Mageia 1 will be supported until December 2012.
Mageia 2 may have a longer lifecycle, this will be decided once released in May. (?)

OMGosh, I've been asleep.

I got Mageia 2, kde4, zsh with kernel GamesBox.GlennsPref.net 3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2 #1 SMP Sat Apr 28 01:29:50 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

good to come out of Cauldron/cooker without a reinstall.

Cheers

Please give us something . . . is the 'g' pronounced like in "good," or in "engine?" How do you say it?

:)

Well I personally use g as in engine :)

Well thank you. It would have bugged the heck out of me. :) Thanks for all your hard work!

Mageia 3
 

I istalled Mageia3 KDE on me desktop computer...
I must say, i am happy with this Linux System.
I have me other computer with NVIDIA Gefoce 6200 and it work relatif good. After trying more than 4 other distro's i must say its the best for me.
So that computer can run for a few years more, i now NVIDIA is not good supported by Linux, on Windows7 the drivers works good, but after 2 day"s i had enough of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, when there are people who have NVIDIA on board of their pc's, GO MAGEIA... I am happy with.
Greetings,
Mefisto

This could not be further from the truth. See this link, there are drivers from Nvidia for most of the chip sets they have ever produced. I have several Nvidia cards running without issues.

-->http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

If you need help, open a thread, and ask for it.

Ok, your right, but not every linux system works great with nvidia, or like Mr. Torvalds says once... Fuck nvidia ! And for anyone new with the Linux system, it is not always easy to go to that site and pick the right driver and install him. If there is a new system, than it must recognice the harware and pick the right drivers and support them. Sorry but thats the way i think.
Greetings,
Mefisto

I agree with you here. It is the ability of a distro to handle the drivers, not the drivers them selves.

I used Mandriva for several years, and then Magia. Their method for handling Nvidia to me was not very clean. I run Slackware now. I can either use sbopkg or download a run file from Nvidia and install. Both work with ease. I now get the .run files from Nvidia, they work as expected.

Yep, thats the way, i fully agree with your point of vieuw on yhat mather.
Greetings,
Mefisto