Mageia beta 2 available

[ennael]

Hi there

Everything is here:
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/04/26/mageia-1-beta2/

Please take time to test it. This is our last run before final release and feedbacks are really important

Cheers

[norberto]

it possible update mageia 1 alpha 1 to alpha2, or , only i download alpha 2.

[gonzague]

Hi Anne
I just install Mageia beta 1 yesterday evening, on a pc with windows xp, mandriva 2010, mandriva2010.2 and I choose to upgrade the mandriva2010 with Mageia. It took about 1hour and 10 minutes to upgrade.
I had just one problem, when i wanted to test the screen resolution at the end of the installation on the summary screen, I got a sort screen and I could'nt do anything. I used the magic key to reboot and there no problem, all my mandriva 2010 icons were there and all seem to work flawlessly. Then I updated, there were 801 packages to update and all went well, also after I removed over 200 orphans packages.

I am not a Linux power user but for me all went well and I am very satisfied.
Keep on the good work and thanks to all at Mageia.

regards
Gonzague

[ennael]

Hi Anne
I just install Mageia beta 1 yesterday evening, on a pc with windows xp, mandriva 2010, mandriva2010.2 and I choose to upgrade the mandriva2010 with Mageia. It took about 1hour and 10 minutes to upgrade.
I had just one problem, when i wanted to test the screen resolution at the end of the installation on the summary screen, I got a sort screen and I could'nt do anything. I used the magic key to reboot and there no problem, all my mandriva 2010 icons were there and all seem to work flawlessly. Then I updated, there were 801 packages to update and all went well, also after I removed over 200 orphans packages.

I am not a Linux power user but for me all went well and I am very satisfied.
Keep on the good work and thanks to all at Mageia.

regards
Gonzague

thanks for this kind comment Hope you will enjoy Mageia stable

[isadora]

Trying to download, but receiving error:

550 Failed to change directory.

Both for torrent and direct download.


Edit: Most probably the iso's are not yet available from all download-locations.
For me (in the Netherlands) there is no Beta2 yet available at:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/ ... /cauldron/

[norberto]

it possible update mageia 1 beta 1 to beta2, or , only i download beta 2.?

[Ken-Bergen]

it possible update mageia 1 beta 1 to beta2, or , only i download beta 2.?

If your install of beta1 is updated you have everything in beta2.
The only reason to do an install or upgrade your install with beta2 is to test the installer.

[isadora]

Beta-2 is downloading from:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/p ... /cauldron/

Will come back later for giving first impressions.

[isadora]

Downloading through Ktorrent mageia-1-Beta2-DVD-i586.iso went pretty smoothly,
approximately two hours.
Installation in a virtual machine (VMPLayer 3.1.4 build 385536) went without
falter.
The familiar rituals that everyone knows by now.
Configuration used for the virtual machine:
* RAM: 1500 MB
* Hard disk: 50 GB

Installation to reboot, including updates (only 4 packets) lasted 24
minutes.
Reboot went smoothly without errors in desktop.
Ready-to-use desktop (all starts) in Alpha 2 in 77 seconds.
For the Beta 2 was 53 seconds.

When installing a package message appeared, saying that the CD-ROM
CoreMedia could not be found.
Have this medium disabled via "Software Management" now.

installing Flash Player plug-in went without difficulty through "Software
Management ". Flash worked flawlessly.

And then just a short test for libre-office.
It took 35 seconds before I could begin in a text document.
In a second attempt I could start using a new text-document within 12 seconds.
And a libre-office calc document I could use after 12 seconds.

So far very pleased with this next version in the preliminaries.

Fine job!!!!

[diego]

Hello Mageia Community!

First of all thank you for a great beta!
I yesterday installed beta 1 from dvd and today updated to cauldron, both actions went very smooth.

my test pc is a dualcore atom 330, 1GB Ram (x86_64 mode)
external dvd, zydas wlan (USB)
harddisk is typical ACER Layout (robbed from an old acer...) with vista, restore partition and data.
i manually resized the data part in the installer, went back to automatic and told to use the free space: all was perfect!

there is only one comment how you might do better for the future: preload the most used features like wpa-supplicant, printing etc. or try to detect /ask on install, as this is quite annoying if you don't have a dvd/net connection.

all other glitches i noticed so far disappeared with beta 2.

fingers crossed and all the best! especially to the graphic team, let them make mageia as nice looking as mandriva, while all the others, developers and users, keep squashing bugs

Diego

[wsams]

I have been running Mandriva on my network for several years now and am making the change to Mageia

My first upgrade was the beta 2 on a HP G70-460US Notebook PC 3 gigs ram and lg hd
I had Mandriva 2020.2 installed and updated

I chose to upgrade to Mageia, all went smoothly until I got to the point where the installer tried to update the packages. the installer did not find the repositories.
so I finished the install, rebooted and launched the Mageia control center and updated the repositories then updated the the OS. All went very well

I installed a couple of apps that I use, the process went very smoothly with the software installer, dependencys were all installed


I will be upgrading the rest of my machines very soon

Thank you to all who have/are working on the Mageia project

wsams

[PietroTux88]

is included GNOME on dvd beta 2 4gb ?

[wobo]

Yes.

[macxi]

Hello!

I checked this repository mageia and not found the software Firestarter, which is an excellent firewall for linux.



The software Firestarter can be added to mageia repository?

[Sfiet_Konstantin]

Please post a bug report for this. Here
Choose "new rpm package"
Thanks in advance

[macxi]

Please post a bug report for this. Here
Choose "new rpm package"
Thanks in advance

Sfiet_Konstantin,

Thanks for the tip. I have already sent the request in bugzilla mageia: ( https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033 ).

Cheers!

[Sfiet_Konstantin]

Please note (as it is said wrongly in your bug report) that firestarter is not a firewall but a firewall backend.
Mageia has it's firewall (shorewall) that is powerful, and firestarter is a good program to manage it.
Another program is directly integrated in MCC : drakfirewall.

[macxi]

Please note (as it is said wrongly in your bug report) that firestarter is not a firewall but a firewall backend.
Mageia has it's firewall (shorewall) that is powerful, and firestarter is a good program to manage it.
Another program is directly integrated in MCC : drakfirewall.

Sfiet_Konstantin,

Yes, I know, but I think that Firestarter is very easy and simple to use, it is "user-friendly", the icon will turn blue when everything is ok and turns red when there is some event, on some port. I think Firestarter very intuitive to configure.

Cheers!