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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby Akien » Sep 10th, '11, 14:24

I wish a warm welcome to all our new users, and especially to the Indonesian since you're already three on the 7th page of this topic :)
I don't think we have an Indonesian translation team already, so feel free to join the translation team if you want Mageia in your native language.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby otautahi » Sep 13th, '11, 09:57

Kia Ora. My name is Brian and I'm a kiwi (ex Christchurch) living on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia.
My Linux goes back to Corel and early Red hat. I loved Mandrake and it's great to see the magician back - I missed him. Just waiting now on the install DVD from NZ, in the meantime I've replaced a worn out DVD drive and added another gig of DDR ram in my not_so_youthful desktop. Cheers
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 13th, '11, 15:37

Brian, very welcome to the Mageia-forum!!!!

Have a great and magical time around!!!!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby otautahi » Sep 14th, '11, 00:25

thanks isadora
looking forward to contributing
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 14th, '11, 09:26

For everyone feeling like otautahi, to contribute to Mageia:
http://mageia.org/en/contribute/

Feel free!!!!!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 16th, '11, 14:56

We made it within a year of the announcement of the new distribution "Mageia".
1000 Members as of today!!!


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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 16th, '11, 15:04

And that two days before the first birthday. What a nice present! :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby wobo » Sep 16th, '11, 16:02

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From 1000 registered users 54.8% wrote none or just 1 post. The top 10 posters wrote 39.5% of all posts.

German forum shows:
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From 183 registered users 45% wrote none or just 1 post. The top 10 posters wrote 85% of all posts
Which means, threads are a bit longer in the German forum but the posts are better spread between the users in the international forum.
But both forums show that half of the users never wrote anything (or just one post)

Now the striking fact:
In both forums the 2 top posters are the same persons!
1. doktor5000 with his constant willingness to help people, kudos to the doctor!
2. wobo, but everybody knows how he loves to discuss and chat! :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby Akien » Sep 16th, '11, 16:56

I'll make it to the top one day, be prepared :P

Anyway, 1000 users is a nice number, even if only half of them do use the forum.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 16th, '11, 17:35

wobo wrote:kudos to the doctor!


kudos gives that warm, fuzzy feeling. But not the same as real beer, and doesn't get you drunk 8-)
So either donate beer to me or money to Mageia. The latter is preferred :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 16th, '11, 18:40

Great appreciation for your never-ending input, the way you help people out in a
very clear way is outstanding.
doktor5000 Once you will reach magic numbers, and that is not to far away ;)

Thank you, and i guess by all of us!!!

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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby eonwir » Sep 16th, '11, 20:28

Hello everyone,
I'm a french living in Sweden, and i've been a long time user of Mandriva (and a few other linux distros at work, especially Fedora, Debian and Scientific linux). I have followed with great interest the birth of the Mageia project. Now my new home-built system is running Mageia 1, and i am very impressed and happy with it: everything i need is working fine and i like the feel of it. I appreciate also the idea of a modern, easy to use and powerful distro, which is driven by the community.
Professionaly, i work mainly with software development (and some bit of system admin). Well, though i try to help people around me with linux, i've never been much active on forums before, but i hope to find some time to help in some ways this great project!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby Akien » Sep 16th, '11, 21:16

Welcome eonwir!

I'm looking forward to seeing you around on the forums and maybe as a contributor to Mageia? If you'd like to help us but don't know how, you can have a look at the "Contribute" page on the website: http://www.mageia.org/fr/contribute (en français tant qu'à faire).

According to your description you could be of help to our sysadmins team, but you may not want to work as a sysadmin professionally AND for "leisure" :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby eonwir » Sep 17th, '11, 00:51

Thanks Akien, for the welcome and the link! :-)

I'm trying to see indeed how best contribute within my constraints. Having a full time job plus kids doesn't leave so much time, i'm afraid. I've been setting up a Cauldron running in a VirtualBox, and trying to have a look among all the information available, the mailing lists and so on.
Ah ah, well no, i'd like to avoid sysadmin work, it's taking already too much of my day time, when i clearly prefer doing software development... ;-)
So, perhaps i could be helping with testing, packaging (though i have no previous experience in making rpms actually), or developing the distro? Need to read more and digest the info! :geek:
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 17th, '11, 10:44

eonwir wrote:So, perhaps i could be helping with testing, packaging (though i have no previous experience in making rpms actually), or developing the distro? Need to read more and digest the info! :geek:


Yes, sure, more help is always good and needed. You can read up http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id= ... _mentoring
and sign up in the "Packager apprentice table", so andre999 can find you a mentor who introduces you to packaging and stuff :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby nccpgmr9 » Sep 18th, '11, 12:02

my name is Dennis , been using man-whatever linux since 8.1 , i have been an IBM rpg programmer since the system/3,32,34,38,as/400,e-series,i-series, been using pc's since the IBM single floppy drive green screen, and i hail from Southbury,ct

P.S. im member 1000
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby marja » Sep 18th, '11, 17:42

Hi Dennis,

A very special welcome to you :)
You're member 1000 and joined just before Mageia's first birthday, you might be setting a trend:
Member 2000 before Mageia's second birthday
Member 4000 before Mageia's third birthday
Member 8000 before Mageia's fourth birthday
etc. etc.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby nccpgmr9 » Sep 18th, '11, 18:14

lets hope so
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby Germ » Sep 19th, '11, 13:12

Welcome to Mageia! :D
Starting in 1999: Mandrake > Mandriva > Mageia
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby PiElle » Sep 22nd, '11, 19:25

I'm new of the forum.
I live in Italy.
I've been using Linux for some years.
Initially, mostly Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
Then I tried other Distros like Fedora, Opensuse, Pclos, Mandriva and Chakra.
For sure, my favourite ones now (and for a very long time to come, I suppose) are Mageia and Fedora which I run (with Windows) on two different notebooks (I enjoy triple booting! :P ).
I find Mageia to be an excellent system :D .
The installation was very quick and everything worked right out of the box (proprietary drivers and codecs included). The look is exquisite and very polished ;) ...
I do believe that the future lies ahead full of promises ... :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Sep 22nd, '11, 19:35

Thanks for your very nice words about our just one-year-old Mageia!!!!

Very welcome PiElle to the Mageia-forum!!!!

Have good times around, and feel free to contribute wherever you can.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Oct 8th, '11, 12:11

Since we have welcomed quite some new members in the last couple of weeks,
i will bring up the "Welcome-topic" once more, to encourage everyone new, for placing some introduction.
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby morgano » Oct 27th, '11, 20:25

JIIIHAAAA!!

My name is Morgan Leijström, and i live in south end of Sweden.
This is my first post here despite i registered quite some while ago and have patricipated in the mailing list and donated.

Because i was patienty waiting for my new machine to install on.
(And my mandriva machines was just working, but becoming of age so...)

This ouperforms my 6 year old workstation by more then ten times in speed it feels like, have a very nice screen etc.
I told my boss (that is myself ;) ) that i should be much more productive on it --and wow what speed! :shock:

To much workshop work this week to really get it into work, but it is installed (except the water cooler is hanging out on the side...)

Actually i tried to install mdv2011 first but it dropped me early at command line as it failed to get graphics working.
Well i did not waste time on it, and installed mageia as i intended it to be main system anyway.
Installation went pretty smooth from USB+FTP repo, except it hang black at testing graphics driver.
Restarted installation and it got to the same point and i selected vesa instead, made full upgrade, and after next reboot i could switch to real driver.
I have a Readeon HD 6850 and a beautiful 2560x1600 screen :D

Small details to fix: audio, temperature monitors...

I have been a 98% Mandriva user since 2006, and use same forum name @ mandriva forum.
First steps using Linspire and Suse around 2002.

You will soon see me around here much more :)
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby isadora » Oct 27th, '11, 20:53

Thanks morgano for your really enthusiastic introduction.
Congratulations with your new fast set-up.

Enjoy Mageia and it's community!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

Postby Rob_T » Nov 13th, '11, 09:29

Hello, my name is Rob and I am a Linuxholic. I have been addicted to Linux since before Mandrake 6.0 :)

I've just made the switch from Mandriva. I have a "substantial" home server (8 CPU cores, 24 GB and 10 TB) that now runs Mageia as well as a couple of lesser machines. So far I'm liking it.

About me: I'm close to 50 years old, started programming in Fortran when I was 15 (and then BASIC, and then a lot more languages since) and today I work for a chip company writing design tools (I used to work for various EDA companies before that). I live in the Pacific North West of the USA.
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