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Mageia 8 is on its way
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of November 2020 09:50:24 PM Filed under
The road to get Mageia 8 is winding, slow but steady.
The current situation is that major packages have been updated to latest versions, such as:
– latest Linux kernel 5.9.6 built for x86_64, i586, arm7l and aarch64 architectures,which can recognize all new released hardware since Mageia 7.1. We intend to release Mageia 8 with a Long Term Support Kernel. 5.10 will be the new LTS one, just around the corner for a December release. We will ship with this version.
– basesystem with systemd 246, glibc 2.31, GCC 10.2, LLVM 10.0.1, urpmi 8.123, DNF 4.2.23 and rpm 4.16.0 ;
– Java stack updated to java-11-openjdk (11.0.9.6) and built against this version;- python 3.8.5, rust 1.47, ruby 2.7.2, Golang 1.15.3,…
We decided to stop supporting Java 8, and only have Java 11. This requires fixing the Java stack, as some applications have never been ported, and therefore have to be removed, while others have to be updated to the ported version.
On the desktop side, we have an updated x11-server to 1.20.9 stack. A Wayland session for GNOME is available on Intel, AMD and even NVIDIA (with nvidia-current nonfree drivers). KDE Plasma is based on QT 5.15.1 with Plasma-Workspace 5.20.2, which can permit a wayland session preview. All infrastructure is here for it to have a desktop running on modern technologies. By default, we still ship Plasma with an X11 session on all hardware.
GNOME is at 3.38.1. LXqt is 0.16. XFCE is at 4.15 preview and is a good candidate to move to the 4.16 release before we ship Mageia 8.
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Distros: Absolute64, OpenMandriva, and Ubuntu
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 3rd of November 2020 10:45:20 PM Filed under
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Absolute64-20201103 released
Based on Slackware64-current.
Keeping up with wholesale library changes (especially python) and kernels, etc...
(Will there ever be a Slackware 15?)
Edited some utilities to adjust to new libs.
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Progress on OMLx 4.2
Work continues on OMLx 4.2. It is anticipated that Beta release should be happening in the next week or two.
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Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework | Ubuntu
The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert.
We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to start with an internal audit, fix any issues we find, then look for a third-party service to evaluate the framework from the perspective of real-world users with disabilities
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We are very sad to announce that José Jorge, who used the login zezinho, passed away on September the 11th
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 14th of September 2020 09:47:28 PM Filed under
José was 46 years old, father to 3 children. He, and his 16 year old son, who was accompanying him on a bicycle ride, died September the 11th after being struck by a car.
José was a major contributor to the world of Free Software, in particular Mageia, his favorite distribution, which he had adopted after Mandrake/Mandriva and in which he had been actively participating for some 20 years. Among his many contributions were the inclusion of hundreds of packages such as Audacity, Chromium, fuse2, gcompris, other very important packages such as various WiFi drivers, as well as many games (bzflag, alienarena, crack-attack, flightgear). He was a tester
for Mageia Cauldron and a mentor for new packagers.
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News from our package manager “urpmi”
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 29th of August 2020 01:54:08 AM Filed under
News from our package manager “urpmi” :
Inherited from the Mandriva distribution, Mageia’s default package manager is URPMI. It offers a wide range of features to manage software repositories, install, update and remove applications packaged in rpm format. This standardized format is adopted by many well-known distributions, such as Redhat, Fedora, Centos, Suse and Opensuse. Urpmi is also used to update your distribution.
This tool comes with many tools :
– urpmi, urpme to install and remove applications,
– urpmq to search for an application by querying repositories
– urpmf to search for a package from the files it contains
– urpmi.update to update your system and applications
– urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.removemedia to add, remove your software repositories.
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More Progress for Mageia 8 – Beta 1 is available for testing
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 8th of August 2020 07:25:48 AM Filed under
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 and thoughts so that we can continue to get Mageia 8 ready for release.
A full list of included packages is available in the .idx file for the installation media.
For those that want to jump in and test straight away, the images can be downloaded here, as always with pre-release images, use your best judgement.
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha available for testing
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 28th of July 2020 02:00:44 AM Filed under
Here we have the Alpha milestone of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release cycle.
Warning: This is an alpha product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment.
Alpha release is primarily for testing and bug squashing. Testing is a critical step during development as all bug fixing will take place during this lapse of time.
Therefore we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our forum or at Github Issues.
You can get in touch real time with our developers at IRC channel #openmandriva-cooker on freenode.
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OpenMandriva Progressing On Rolling Release Version, Moving Away From i686 Repository
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 19th of July 2020 12:29:02 AM Filed under
For those looking for another rolling-release Linux distribution to try and one whose roots trace back to the legendary Mandrake Linux, OpenMandriva has been working to establish its own rolling-release spin for those preferring the latest software packages as opposed to their conventional releases. Additionally, OpenMandriva is nearing the end of its i686 repository offering while continuing to work with Wine and 32-bit games.
OpenMandriva has for a while been working to move away from 32-bit packages similar to the other modern Linux distributions out there. OpenMandriva users though have still had to enable the i686 repository if needing select packages, notably for games / Wine use-cases.
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The first step towards Mageia 8 – Alpha 1 is available for testing
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 2nd of July 2020 05:36:33 AM Filed under
We are happy to announce the release of the test images of Mageia 8. These are available to early testers to help with the development towards a stable final release of Mageia 8. There have been large scale updates of all packages as well as new features implemented to improve what Mageia already offered.
Also: Mageia 8 Enters Development with Linux Kernel 5.7, Improved ARM Support
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Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 26th of June 2020 11:27:33 AM Filed under
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the newest version of this Linux distribution that originates from the once legendary Mandrake Linux.
Mageia 8 has been working on better ARM support, they have nearly wrapped up their Python 2 removal effort, RPM package metadata is now compressed with Zstd rather than XZ for faster processing, the Linux 5.7 kernel is powering the distro, various packaging improvements, Mageia Control Center enhancements, and a newer KDE Plasma stack for the default desktop experience.
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 2020.05 snapshot
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of May 2020 10:03:12 PM Filed under
OMLx ’Rock’ (currently 4.1) is for users who want a stable system.
Please note that Rock system will receive only bug fixes and security updates.
The user wishing for the latest and brightest without having to wait for a new release may want to install ’Rolling’ instead, our new release branch which we are going to officially announce very soon.
By default, only /main repository is enabled in OpenMandriva releases. If you want to find out all the packages available please use Software Repository Selector (om-repo-picker) and enable additional repositories. Guide here.
From time to time we make available Rock snapshots that include fixes for bugs reported after release, and/or important new improvements.
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