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Mageia 9 supported until March 31st, 2025

Obviously guessing changes will be made to Mag9 support. Just curious to how Mag10 is cooking?

I'm running Cauldron. I'd say Mageia 10 is pretty close.

I'm not sure how the devs are going to handle Plasma 5 to Plasma 6. Upgrade or re-install necessary...

Thanks

I would just go with a clean fresh install myself.

If even a Brother printer won't work.I will stick to my usual reply: I will wait until I see it. It could take another 12 months, and still not be late.

Anish68 wrote:Mageia 9 supported until March 31st, 2025

And ..or a minimum of 3 months after the next release, whichever is longer.

Be prepared. After 21 March, Mageia will no longer exist. The team are too busy installing new hardware to worry about trivial things like deadlines.

Good grief....

The "iso" is now available for download. My Web access is very slow. I downloaded the file and tried first, to install it, then to get an MD5sum. My computer responded that the file was NOT an .iso or even a template for one. This must be the best ".iso" that Mageia has released to date, When Mageia was first released, several sources said that under its democratic charter, it would not survive. I couldn't see why not, but kit is starting to look suspiciously similar to Mandriva. It is getting to be that I should look elsewhere, although I have been a user for 25 years, like Germ.

I don't know what you are looking at but the only ISO is the free and nonfree netinstall. Regular install ISOs have not been released for Mageia 10.

I can assure that I will not be looking for another distro.

The team has had 18 months in which to ignore the members who support it. Alternatively, why are they absorbed in hew equipment that they have had 18 months to install, and now they see Release 10 as bottom priority. Any product that has no plan and whose motto is "We release when we feel like it" cannot survive. You are living in a fantasy world like the death-throes of Mandriva. You have no iddea how to run a business. Despite 25 years of loyalty.I wouldn't risk kinvesting in Mageia. There are plenty of alternatives nowadaysthat have a valid business plan..

So, why don't you just leave instead of being such a drama queen?

It's getting tiresome...

laidlaws wrote:You have no iddea how to run a business…I wouldn't risk kinvesting in Mageia…have a valid business plan..

Despite the poor spelling, you seem not to understand what this project is about. Mageia is not a business. Mageia does not sell any products or provides paid support. Maybe have a read at the top of the website. There is a link called „About us“. This might give you an understanding what this project is about. Also the other links like „Community“ and „Contribute“ might give you a basic understanding of the concept.

laidlaws wrote:The team has had 18 months in which to ignore the members who support it. Alternatively, why are they absorbed in hew equipment that they have had 18 months to install, and now they see Release 10 as bottom priority. Any product that has no plan and whose motto is "We release when we feel like it" cannot survive. You are living in a fantasy world like the death-throes of Mandriva. You have no iddea how to run a business. Despite 25 years of loyalty.I wouldn't risk kinvesting in Mageia. There are plenty of alternatives nowadaysthat have a valid business plan..

I note that you signed up 2011.

If you have received an updated package for any Mageia install in that time, you have not been ignored.
If you want to run a Magiea 10 install, nothing is stopping you, You will just have to LEARN to install via a net-install.iso method. You will also have to work around large regular updates ( in excess of 1GB ), and also deal with the aftermath with broken applications and then any new updates having incompatible library requirements.

In March 2022, one of the companies that generously host Mageia servers had a cooling failure. Note the phrase "Generously Host".
Since that time, Mageia team members have been trying to find other generous companies to host the Mageia Servers. At least one company has accepted our pleas for help. The existing servers needed to removed from the prior host and installed at the new host address. Access to both sites requires co-ordinating with the host companies. You cannot just turn up, knock on the door and say "I've come to remove / install the Mageia hardware".
As they were due for an upgrade, the option to upgrade was made. Unfortunately, you cannot just buy the servers from your local computer hardware shop. The servers needed the maximum RAM and Drive capacity that Mageia could afford. They needed to be built by a dedicated supply company. Specifications needed to be agreed upon, quotes requested, given and accepted. Depending on the contents of that statement, there could be many iterations of quote requested and responses received. All of these things take time.
Currently one dedicated server is a users own equipment, hosted in their own home , waiting for the new hardware to be installed.

The Mageia team are all volunteers, and have real lives. To do the above, they need to create time from their " work to earn money to live " lives .

I guess you don't know how to run a not-for-profit organization.

In my career as a lawyer the most common complaint the profession heard was "He may be handling my case but I have no idea what he is doing." I saw the same theme during the final days of Mandriva. My profession's response was to send our clients a copy of every piece of paper we generated on their file and every piece of paper that came in. If the client had heard nothing for 18 months, naturally he would be wanting an answer. In today's paperless world doing that is much easier and cheaper. It is not for nothing that new apps for customer management are constantly appearing.

Mageia may not be an orthodox business but it still has running costs. It is not like a local club. Members are people and they don't want to be left guessing whether there will ever be another release with only a sudden rush of downloads to go by. Many are business people themselves who can't just tell their clients to take a holiday. Suppliers won't keep donating if there is no financial or goodwill reward for them

Interested people can keep an eye on http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ (many new package compilations every day), issues updated last week: https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=7d, and i.e dev and QA mail lists, maybe source repos... or why not actively participate in i,e QA to really feel the progress and add to the success?

Where did you find this net-install? I'm interested in trying it.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_Netin ... _(Boot.iso)

the nonfree contains proprietary drivers.

https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/m ... ll/images/

No need to link a specific mirror, this is directly available under Alternative Downloads in the Downloads section (at the top of the website)
https://www.mageia.org/downloads/alternative/