hpr1314 :: Impressions of Mageia

Experiences with Mageia

Hosted by Frank Bell on 2013-08-15 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Mageia.
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Frank Bell describes his recent experiences with Mageia v. 2, including upgrading online to v. 3, as well as his overall impressions of Mageia.

Links from the show:

Mageia website: http://www.mageia.org

Mageia Wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Main_Page

About the online version upgrade (from the release notes): https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_2

About the Mageia Repositories, including "tainted" repos (from the release notes): https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_Release_Notes#The_Mageia_online_repositories

Mageia Forum thread on the "no MP4 audio" in VLC: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1290

About Drak3D: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=511

HPLIP: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

Comments

Comment #1 posted on 2013-08-17T04:45:17Z by Jason

Thanks for the overview

I haven't used this distro since it was called Mandrake but I remember really liking it. I was wary of it being rpm based since I'd gotten tired of "rpm hell" on Redhat 5 & 6. But it worked well with my hardware and was pretty stable.

I've used PCLinuxOS off and on which is a derivative but I think I'll give Mageia a whirl now that I'm back on OpenSuse (just can't stay away from rpm I guess). Thanks again!

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