Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[doktor5000]

"Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors′ website or 3rd party website."

Pfft, they have that on their website for all of their mainboards. Although there's almost never a need to install drivers from chipset vendors, only for really rare wifi chipsets.
In general the hardware support of the linux kernel is really awesome without any external drivers.

[johnt11]

Hi xboxboy,
thankyou for your quick reply and opinion.
I will and have a look at the beginners section.
Thanks
John.

[benmc]

Hello johnt11,

Your mobo: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H is UEFI friendly.
If you are unfamiliar with UEFI, you should download the Mageia 5 Livecd [ 700 + something Mb ] .
This cd also includes free and non-free drivers , so it will give you a good idea as to how Mageia will behave on your system.

(don't mention the cricket)

Benmc

[girlando]

Well, I am using Mageia since it started (before I was using Mandriva), but this is
the first time I post here... just to let you know that Mageia 5 has been named
"distribution of the year" by an Italian Linux Magazine, LinuxPro.

Congratulation for your good work !

[doktor5000]

Hi there, nice to hear that. Could you add a link for that LinuxPro nomination to https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Pre ... y_-_Italia please ?

[isadora]

You are very welcome girlando!!!!
Even more bringing such wonderful news from Italy.

Wish you magical times around!!!

[mateusrm]

HI. im from Brazil n i was looking for a linux distro.

i use computer since 1995, since windows 3.1 until 10.

im using tails n i tested a lot of linux distros over 10 years but i did not make it because its to dificult to do things at linux.

i found magea (a conectiva mandriva distro i gues), n in the past i bought a coneectiva 9 to do tests but weak support made me go back to mr gates.

in this days, i do not use computer like before, so i just need a sistem free of virus as possible i can n better privaci.

i need to do a greek present to my family -- my windows 8.


tks

[isadora]

You are very welcome to the Mageia-forum and community matsusrm!!!!!!

Have magical times around!!!!!

[denismm]

I am Denis
I am using mageia alongside ms windows. I am not a coder but I hope i can contribute in any which way possible.

[isadora]

Contributors are always welcome, so there you are denismm!!!!!

Thanks for joining Mageia and it's community!!!!

[tarakbumba]

I am Denis
I am using mageia alongside ms windows. I am not a coder but I hope i can contribute in any which way possible.

Welcome Denis! You may want to look at Contributing page to find out what kind of contribution suits for you. At first you may want to just test the packages and distro by joining our QA Team.

[joshuya3]

Hey guys

Let's make this quick: over 30 years of experience in this industry, with some of the world's best players (Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc ...). Enough said about me: I guess you're VERY VERY lucky to have me here.

[xboxboy]

Hey guys

Let's make this quick: over 30 years of experience in this industry, with some of the world's best players (Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc ...). Enough said about me:

Welcome to mageia.org. You'll find mageia to be a great community of volunteers, building on of the most awesome distro's available.

I guess you're VERY VERY lucky to have me here.

If you "guess" we're lucky......
Nope, I'm lucky the legacy of Mandrake lives on with mageia.org

[joshuya4]

Well, it's clear you didn't see my resume. If you had, you would know how lucky you are to have someone with as much experience as me here in this forum. This is really extraordinary news. Should be posted to the blog even...

[joshuya4]

And talking about this ... I invite you all to participate in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10684

[warezworld]

I am 28, french mageia user (montpellier). Doing lots and lots of WAREZ!

Anybody into warez here? Send me your list in pv I will send mine.

[xboxboy2]

I am 28, french mageia user (montpellier). Doing lots and lots of WAREZ!

Welcome to mageia.org. You'll find mageia to be a great community of volunteers, building on of the most awesome distro's available.

[marja]

IMPORTANT:
xboxboy2 is not our xboxboy

[doktor50000]

IMPORTANT

Due to various abuses, the Mageia council decided today to close the forums.

Please backups the messages you care about.

The forums will be definitively closed on January 23.

Thanks for your consideration.

[Akien]

Akien on 21/01/2016: Edited away some trolling of the troll

[doktor5000]

Anybody into warez here? Send me your list in pv I will send mine.

Drop your pant's, I'll drop mine ... C'mon, is this kindergarten ?

[soren]

Hi everyone

I havn't used Linux since I tried a few builds out in the mid 90's Back then I worked on NT 4.0 servers and since I've just kinda stuck with ms even though their window-versions has gone downhill ever since imo

But now I'd finally had enough and thought I'd try out a few Linux OS again (Suse, Ubuntu, Gentoo and ofc. Mageia 5) So far I like Mageia best, looks great and feels fast and stable. I guess I'll end up with Gentoo on the "über-geek-pc" but on my laptop Mageia 5 is just sweet

Unfortunatly I dont know much about code, so I guess Im gonna ask a few newb q's in here from time to time

[benmc]

Hello soren and welcome to Mageia,

newb q's are fine, as are not so newb ones.

there is a lot of info in the forum, so just search for your problem, it likely that someone else has had it and has a cure / fix posted.

Great to read that Mageia is just sweet on your laptop.
Check the links on Mageia Welcome, should have popped up when you rebooted after install.
There is a lot of good stuff there too.

Hope you enjoy using Mageia, I've been using it for 5 years or so, before that Mandriva and Mandrake.
I have tried other flavours but keep coming back because it is just so undemanding.

Theres also IRC clients built into your system, [chat room link, Mageia Welcome will launch it] so you can always ask there too - #mageia.
depending on your timezone, there is nearly always some-one on.

regards

Benmc

[Germ]

Welcome soren!

[wizardfromoz]

Gidday, I am from Australia, hence the userid.

I have been using Linux on and off for 4 years now. Broke the ties with Windows 18 months ago and now run a totally Linux environment, with 14 Linux Distros running and more to follow.

Mageia 5 is one of my favourites, but I am only now learning about Terminal commands at Konsole, so I may have a few questions.

Cheers

wizardfromoz