Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

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Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby viking60 » Mar 19th, '11, 22:27

ennael wrote:As stated on Mageia blog, Alpha 2 is out. We look for your tests !


It is getting there!
http://bjoernvold.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1226
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby shikamaru » Mar 22nd, '11, 20:13

Hi, Thanks for your review !

Just for reference, I mention here the bug numbers corresponding to the issue you encountered, in the hope people will follow these and not open more duplicates :)
#30: search in rpmdrake not working

Welcome on board anyway :)
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby ahmad » Mar 25th, '11, 22:53

rpmdrake bug has been fixed (thanks to Luc Menut's detective work).
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby DShelbyD » Mar 26th, '11, 18:08

I agree: Mageia is snappy, beautiful, and advancing wonderfully with a whole truckload of updates after I installed for the second time (in order to check out the LibreOffice ruler bar again) last night. A real installation, not a virtual one! :lol: Encouragement, encouragement, encouragement -- is that enough encouragement? If not, encouragement!
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby isadora » Mar 31st, '11, 19:03

Was nicely surprised by the new Mageia-theme-default, while updating Alpha 2 today.
Looks cool, not only the default background, but also the boot-theme and others.
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby wemgadge » Apr 3rd, '11, 03:55

I am running Alpha 2 in a Fusion VM on my Macbook. So far it is running better than my Mandriva 2010.2 machine (that was admittedly updated with an urpmi --autoselect since mid 2008 so it probably has a lot of cruft). I like that you have targeted the latest builds of everything. For example, I was pleasantly surprised to see Firefox 4 + the latest KDE packages (esp since Mandriva has traditionally been 6 months behind the curve). I am hoping that Mageia will become to Mandriva what Ubuntu has become to Debian... Still mostly binary compatible, but totally ahead of the curve, without sacrificing stability. I'm sure since the team includes the best of the Mandriva devs that this is only going to get better. Kudos. Since the alpha is this good, I can't wait for the production release. :-)
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby viking60 » Apr 4th, '11, 22:49

I just felt the need to comment the topic title:
It is not by me! It has been somewhat moderated. I am not that full of myself :D
Other than that Mageia is coming around nicely and most of the bugs I experienced are fixed.
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby saptech » Apr 5th, '11, 09:03

wemgadge wrote:I am running Alpha 2 in a Fusion VM on my Macbook. So far it is running better than my Mandriva 2010.2 machine.

I've had a hard time trying to run it in VirtualBox as guest with Mandriva 2010.2 as host (a P4 IBM machine) . After installing, it never got past installing Grub. I can't remember exactly what the error message is but I did put in a bug report.

I'm getting an older HP Athlon 64 system shortly and will try installing it straight onto the hard drive to see how it works.

Thnx.
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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby wobo » Apr 5th, '11, 10:39

saptech wrote:After installing, it never got past installing Grub.

Do you mean the point where it says "Preparing the boot loader, this may take a while" ?

If so, then
1. It is not installing grub there, just preparing. Grub only gets installed after you punch "OK" on the summary screen at the end of the complete installation procedure.
2. This preparation takes a lot of time, may be it was too long for your P4 machine or you were tired of waiting? :)

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Re: Review : Mageia 1 alpha2 by viking60

Postby saptech » Apr 7th, '11, 05:51

I did put in a bug report...

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414

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