Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[tangylemon]

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

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.

Cheers
Jon

[jensm]

Welcome to the Forum

[tangylemon]

Welcome to the Forum

jensm, thank you... starting to feel like home already...

[matfx]

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!

[isadora]

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!!!!

[jensm]

Welcome to the forum matfx and have a lot of fun with mageia

[ah7013]

Welcome to the forum tangylemon and matfx

[tangylemon]

Welcome to the forum tangylemon and matfx

Thanks mate... great forum here, most of the nicest people I know,,, run "Open-sauce"...

[benmc]

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.

[tangylemon]

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!
Jon

[kenharkey7]

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.

[wobo]

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!

[jkerr82508]

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

Jim

[wobo]

Only if his time zone is CET

August is daylight saving time, so it's CEST, or 8:44 am PDT in his case

[hintzy64]

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!

-John

[isadora]

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!!!

[yankee495]

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!

[Matin]

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.

[isadora]

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!!!

[yankee495]

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.

[txwaterlily65]

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!!
Robin

[isadora]

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/

[marja]

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

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

Cheers
Marja

[scpackerfan]

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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[isadora]

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!!!!