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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby tangylemon » Sep 22nd, '12, 12:11

marja wrote:For me that is about the furthest away part of the world. It is great to see that there is growing amount of Mageia users there, and to see them pop in here or on IRC.

There is even a New Zealander in a Mageia team I'm in 8-)

Hi marja and isadora...
thanks for the warm welcome here, With our dwindling population, (lots of people crossing the "ditch" to Australia) it's a wonder there's anyone left to run anything. :-)
Nice to meet you all.

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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby jensm » Sep 22nd, '12, 21:23

Welcome to the Forum :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby tangylemon » Sep 22nd, '12, 23:45

jensm wrote:Welcome to the Forum :)

jensm, thank you... starting to feel like home already... :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby matfx » Sep 23rd, '12, 08:51

Hello matfx here from Malaysia. I've been using linux just about 2 years, still a new guy.

Have try a few distro such as Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS and a few small distros but nothing compared to Mageia 2! Just love it how it easily recognize my old hardware machine. I am using KDE because i'm coming from windows and KDE is the easier way to perform daily computing task compared to other desktop environment. It performs very well, fast and stable. I wish i could discover Mageia 2 more earlier so i don't have to distro-hopping.

Anyway many thanks to Mageia teams that putting a lot of effort to make Mageia one of the best linux distro. Keep up the good work!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 23rd, '12, 09:22

Thanks and a big welcome matfx!!!!

Malaysia, how i dream, to go there once. :)

Feel at home with all those already bewitched by Mageia.

And as you probably know, Mageia is the community, is us.
And it's this community that made it all possible.
Contributing might be something for you as well?

Well, all things in time, but please take some time to read:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Have good fun!!!! ;)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby jensm » Sep 23rd, '12, 10:29

Welcome to the forum matfx and have a lot of fun with mageia ;)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby ah7013 » Sep 23rd, '12, 12:07

Welcome to the forum tangylemon and matfx :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby tangylemon » Sep 23rd, '12, 18:31

ah7013 wrote:Welcome to the forum tangylemon and matfx :)

Thanks mate... great forum here, most of the nicest people I know,,, run "Open-sauce"...:-)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby benmc » Oct 1st, '12, 10:12

Hi all.

Have been a mandrake / mandriva user since 2002, migrated to Mageia 2011.
have made a few postings here and there.

Thought I'd get three NZers lined up on this page -I'm about 90min south of Auckland.

Using a collection of o/s as some programmes don't get carried forward and I'm used to their quirks.
Currently spending a lot of time with friends kdenlive, audacity and 2mandvd.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby tangylemon » Oct 1st, '12, 18:55

benmc wrote:Hi all.

Have been a mandrake / mandriva user since 2002, migrated to Mageia 2011.
have made a few postings here and there.

Thought I'd get three NZers lined up on this page -I'm about 90min south of Auckland.

Using a collection of o/s as some programmes don't get carried forward and I'm used to their quirks.
Currently spending a lot of time with friends kdenlive, audacity and 2mandvd.

Welcome to the forum "benmc"... sheesh, is there anyone left at home, maybe someone should turn the lights out since we're all here :-)
I've been distro-hoping for about four of the five years I've been using Linux and I love the flexibility and stability of the OS.
Still learning \"Sed, Awk/Gawk and Grep\" awesome utilities.

I think we're in great company here mate... enjoy!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby kenharkey7 » Oct 2nd, '12, 09:42

So this is kinda strange, I installed mageia 2 on my laptop the other day and figured 'hey might as well join the forums' so I hit register and all that and....apparently I already have an account. I don't remember making one lol but here I am anyway. I am not sure if I have already introduced myself at some point but even if I have it's been a while so...My name is Ken 33 years old, been using linux for about 8 years now. I am pretty much just an end user and perpetual distro hopper which annoys my wife since i'm always reinstalling something lol. Nice to meet everyone here and hope to see yall around the forums.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby wobo » Oct 2nd, '12, 11:02

Welcome.
About your registration: look at the right side bar next to your post. It says: Joined: Aug 25th, '11, 17:44
So, if in future the crime squad comes asking what you have done on Aug 25, 2011, between 17:43 and 17:45 you can safely say you registered at Mageia! :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby jkerr82508 » Oct 2nd, '12, 12:13

wobo wrote:About your registration: look at the right side bar next to your post. It says: Joined: Aug 25th, '11, 17:44

Only if his time zone is CET :)

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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby wobo » Oct 2nd, '12, 13:31

jkerr82508 wrote:Only if his time zone is CET :)

August is daylight saving time, so it's CEST, or 8:44 am PDT in his case :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby hintzy64 » Oct 30th, '12, 17:05

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to pop in to say hi. I see a few names I recognize from the Mandriva forums. I've been a linux user since ~2004, starting with Mandrake 10.0. I use Ubuntu at work, to be in-sync with our software team, but have always preferred Mandrake/Mandriva at home.

I've been eager to try Mageia for quite a while, and have been following reviews and other news, but hadn't gotten around to installing it. I had some hardware changes I had planned to do at the same time, so I kept putting off the distro switch. The hardware changes still haven't happened yet but, quite honestly, I finally got tired of the ROSA additions to Mandriva, their forums are a ghost town, and their package updates have slowed to a crawl. So this weekend I had some free time and finally installed Mageia 2. I had one minor snag configuring wifi, but it was easily solved and I am loving it so far.

I am very excited about the great work that has been going on here over the past two years and about the community philosophy of the distro! I'm happy to be here and hope to stick around for a long time. Sorry it took me so long! ;)

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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Oct 30th, '12, 18:25

Great John, you managed to make the switch.
Very welcome to the Mageia forum, and yes, you might find some known names around.

Hope your experiences will remain in future.
Anyhow, have magical times around!!! :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby yankee495 » Oct 31st, '12, 10:17

Hi John,

I don't know what your hardware upgrades are but don't let that hold ya back. I put Mageia on my laptop and decided to wait until I could get a SSD to install Mageia on my desktop. Not lazy, well maybe, but I didn't want to do away with my Mandriva 2010. It still rocks...Compiz and all.

I've had some pretty serious back problems but boy do I wish I'd have put it on here sooner. Loving the bigger screen and comfortable chair! To me Mageia is it! I live in a small town and have two converts!
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Re: Mageia 3 features

Postby Matin » Nov 6th, '12, 15:20

Hallo zusammen, ich bin neu angemeldet und habe von einem guten Freund den Tipp für diese Seite bekommen, ich freue mich sehr endlich eine fachlich qualifizierte Seite gefunden zu haben, die mir hoffentlich helfen wird die Anfangsschwierigkeiten beim gestalten meiner Seite in kürze zu reduzieren.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Nov 6th, '12, 15:40

Welcome to the Mageia forum Matin!!!! :)

Having you around is great, but i also like to point you to our German Mageia forum:
https://forums.mageia.org/de/

Have magical times around!!! ;)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby yankee495 » Nov 6th, '12, 17:10

Ok, a rough translation of Matin's post:

"Hi, I'm newly registered and got the tip from a good friend of this site, I am very pleased to have finally found a professionally qualified page that will hopefully help me to reduce the initial difficulties to the design of my site soon.".

From that is it is hard to tell if he is here for Mageia. Anyway, hello and I think Isadora had the best idea.
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New to Mageia

Postby txwaterlily65 » Nov 10th, '12, 00:00

Just wanted to say what a wonderful system I think Mageia is. I have used many other linux distros before includingLinux Mint, Mepis, Open Suse and fedora. recently had my computer crash...had windows on it windows did an update and it crashed so I decidedenough of that. I started looking around for a linux distro down loaded a few. And from just the live CD loved mageia so I installed it and I am very very happy with it. Had no problems finding the software I wanted or installing anything. Works very easily without needing to know much about coding at all.
Thank You mageia team for a wonderful experience with Mageia
Keep up the good work!!
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Re: New to Mageia

Postby isadora » Nov 10th, '12, 07:53

Welcome to the Mageia forum txwaterlily65!!!! :)

And thanks for your initial report.
Have magical times around,.......
......and if you would like to be part of this great project: ;)
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby marja » Nov 11th, '12, 12:31

Welcome, txwaterlily65, Matin, hintzy64, kenharkey7, benmc, tangylemon, matfx and everybody else I missed :-D

I hope you'll enjoy Mageia and the Mageia community as much as I do, or even more :)

If any one who reads this has time to join one of our teams, but thinks he does not know enough, or thinks he doesn't have the talents to help make Mageia, please reconsider: We could really use your help, we need people with all sorts of different talents and all kinds of and even very different levels of experience.

When I started contributing to Mageia, I really thought I did not know enough, but I also knew that I would do a better job than nobody ;) .
It is still like that, if you don't help, no one else will do what you could do. I can't think of a team that couldn't use some extra hands.
In the beginning I thought I would probably get kicked out soon because of the mistakes I made, but that didn't happen at all. We all make mistakes, even the most experienced contributors do.

So if you can spare the time, please have a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Contributing#Contributing_to_a_Mageia_team 8-)

Cheers :-D
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby scpackerfan » Nov 11th, '12, 22:16

Greetings to the Mageia community from the USA. Last weekend, I changed our desktop OS over to Mageia 2 after spending two (2) years with another KDE desktop, due to concerns about that distro's long term stability. I am pleased to report that I had no issues with the transition, and my family is happy to be using a "new computer." Thank you to the community for a great product which "just simply works." I am also attaching a screenshot of our "new baby." By way of background, the wallpaper is a shot of the sunrise at Garden City Beach in my home state of South Carolina. Looking forward to Mageia 3 beta! - SCPackerfan
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Nov 12th, '12, 08:01

A very warm welcome to the Mageia forum scpackerfan!!!! :)

Great, you and your family are Mageia-fans now!!!!
You're background looks very inviting.

Have magical times around!!!! ;)
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