Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[isadora]

Great to have you aboard Rob_T!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your introduction.
We wish you a magical Mageia future, and hope to see you around.

[bigbob]

Hi, I've been lurking here for about a month so I thought it is time to say hello.
I installed Mageia alongside Mandriva, Pclos and WinXP. Now it has replaced Mandriva as my main (favourite) OS.
Usually when I try an OS there are things to tweak, often not successfully (don't really know what I'm doing), but with Mageia, everything that I want to work does work.
I am very happy.

[marja]

Hi bigbob,

Nice to have you around
A saint's halo and a bubbling cauldron.... that makes me curious

[Max]

Hello Bigbob!

Is that... is that an animated PNG?
I MUST KNOW MORE!

[wobo]

How did you do that, Bob?
I have a saint's halo as well, but it never shows on photographs!

The combination of Cauldron and a saint's halo: Cauldrons were used to cook saints.

[doktor5000]

Is that... is that an animated PNG?
I MUST KNOW MORE!

Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://www.truekolor.net/learn-how-to-c ... mated-png/

[isadora]

Welcome to the Mageia-forum bigbob!!!!

Hope you will enjoy Mageia and the community for long times ahead.
And whenever you feel to contribute in whatever way, you certainly must take a look at:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[Max]

Is that... is that an animated PNG?
I MUST KNOW MORE!

Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://www.truekolor.net/learn-how-to-c ... mated-png/

Thanks. I briefly checked out the wikipedia article this morning, because I didn't believe that PNGs can be animated, but I didn't have time to actually read it. But the tutorial I had not seen.
I've always been frustrated with the animation in GIFs, no transparency, bad transitions and it's just basically stacking frames (which provides for a very limited repertoire of animation possibilities). That's why I had started experimenting with animated SVGs. But this... this looks like fun!

[bigbob]

Cauldrons were used to cook saints.

But they were not saints before they were cooked, the cauldron helped make them saints.

The animated png was created with Gimp and the 'Animat png editor' firefox add-on.
There is an apng plug-in for Gimp but I can only find the Ms-windows version.

Thank you all for your friendly response.

[raycleve]

Hi,
I'm raycleve. I am 88 years young and have been playing with Linux since 1999, when I acquired a book with a Redhat
CD included.I have mostly used Redhat and Fedora, Suse and Open SUSE, 'buntu's, PCLinuxOs. I never could get Mandriva to work properly, but when I installed Mageia, the second install, on my Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop and ran smoothly out of the box. I am a retire Fire Control Warrant Officer(1967), living in Plano,Texas. Hope to see a long and successful run from Mageia.
Cheers. Ray

[isadora]

Hello and welcome raycleve!!!!
Welcome to the Mageia-forum!!!!

Good to read about your first good impressions.

[dubigrasu]

I am 88 years young

Yes! ...that's the spirit!
Welcome raycleve!

[wobo]

A warm welcome to the crowd, raycleve.
I'm always happy to see other mature (aka retired) people here, even more when they are older than I (65).

[raycleve]

Thanks for the welcomes. The reason I was late to the party was I didn't see the Release Announcement. I saw something about Mageia just recently, so I burned a DVD and tried it. Incidentally I retired from the Navy.
Cheers. Ray

[Germ]

Welcome to Mageia!

[wilcal]

Well I've been on this forum making a nuisance of myself
since 19 June and have as of yet share who I am.
I guess now is as good as ever.

Graduated "Computer Engineer" from a "Trade School"
in Boston/Cambridge in 68. Then it was an unbroken
string of assignments till retirement in Sept 09. Half of
that as a real hardware design Engineer the other
half in Marketing/Sales. Most of that time in
the International Market, mostly Europe. And a
stint in residence for a Dutch Company in
The Netherlands, 85/86/87.

The most relevant is that in 98 I joined a Company
here in San Diego CA that was involved in the creation
of Interactive Multimedia touchscreen Kiosks. That
company was very closely tied to Sun Microsystems.
Our first go at the kiosk was based on a Sun Workstation
running Solaris/Java. That was cumbersome and ended
up not being practical. So the owner of the company,
a Unix Guru, decided to take a chance and I think in
like 99 switched over to Mandrake Linux on i86 platforms.
Mandrake mostly because it had "lots of tools" he said.
The OS ( very cut down ), the Java Engine and kiosk app
were actually on a Compact Flash.

Aside from my Sales/Marketing duties I was the
official maintainer of the Mandrake OS. Keeping
up to date copies and staying up with changes.
And that through the change to Mandriva. I also
was instrumental in setting up a Quality Control
team at the company. Some of you have seen
me active on the Mandriva discussion forums
in the past. Not so much anymore after Mandy 2011.

I still maintain a live Mandriva webserver here
in my apt:

http://72.220.228.245:8080/~wilcal/

That's an aging Mandy 2010.2 install. I hope to
finally migrate that to Mageia 2 in Apr/May when
that is finally released.

I've lots of time on my hands and quite a few
computers in here for testing. So I look forward
to contributing what I can.

[isadora]

Many thanks wilcal for your extensive introduction.

Contributors are double welcomed, and always should take a look at:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Thanks in advance.

[Huriin]

Hey everyone,

I've been using Linux for the past four years and have really taken a liking to it. I've used Ubuntu, mostly , but after their recent switch to Unity I found myself looking for a new distribution. After trying several distributions listed on DistroWatch I stumbled upon Mageia. It supports all my hardware right from the start and is really stable. I'm loving it so far.

I'm also in college and working toward a degree in Computer Information Systems. I'm hoping that I'll eventually be able to contribute to the project in some way as I continue to learn more in my studies.

I look forward to meeting you all.

-Huriin

[isadora]

Very welcome to Mageia and the forum Huriin!!!!
And thank you for introducing.

For any directions into the possibilities contributing to Mageia information can be found at:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Enjoy your stay and don't hesitate to show up.

[Huriin]

Very welcome to Mageia and the forum Huriin!!!!
And thank you for introducing.

For any directions into the possibilities contributing to Mageia information can be found at:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Enjoy your stay and don't hesitate to show up.

Thanks for the welcome. Thanks for the link as well; I'll check it out.

~Huriin

[bradm0]

Just had to jump in here. I've been a long time Linux user (8+ years). I was a long time SuSE user but in 2010 I needed a new distro because SuSE became so unusable with my hardware configuration. That was when I found Mandriva. I loaded 2010 and it just worked, plain and simple. I was very happy until about a month ago. As often happens, newer apps need newer libraries and you end up upgrading. Moving from Mandriva 2010 to 2011 was very painful. I won't go into the numerous problems but a quick scan of the forum showed that I wasn't the only person running into multiple usability and stability problems. Rather than continue to try to work through these (given the number of problems that there were), I decided to abandon Mandriva which was very difficult given my initial experience with 2010. I gave Fedora 16 a try and that didn't last a week so I searched the web for other Mandriva based distros and found Mageia. When I saw that it was a Mandriva fork based on 2010 (yaaaaa) and it was done by former Mandriva employees and contributors and after reading the reasons you started your own distro (mainly that you didn't like where Mandriva was headed) I thought this would be the best distro to try. I have to say that Mageia is great. System installed and data restored from backup in a day. Final tweaks, customizations, and network printing set up a day later. All great stuff. Thanks very much. Knowing that this distro is managed by the folks that made Mandriva what it used to be in its better days I feel like I'm in much better hands in running Mageia. I just had to let you know I glad I am that you're here and that I'm glad I found you.

[isadora]

Good to read about your experiences so far.

Very welcome to the Mageia-forum bradm0!!!!!!

Enjoy your stay, and feel free to contribute:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[cmj]

Hi people.

I'm a new user of Mageia using the beta 2 on my Acer Aspire 5530. I have been using all distros on distrowatch except for the buntus's and anything debian like. Why I don't know. The last distro I used was Arch. I liked it a lot but got tired of all the editing of config files for everything. Then I tried openSUSE wich is great but Yast was a little bit..hmmm...something was missing. I don't know what. I tried Chakra (nice one but only qt,kde??) Slackware (great but, not today maybe 10 years ago) and Pardus wich I really liked but then it died. Gentoo (waiting hours for xorg-server to compile when you have kids, no thank you).

Then I was thinking to myself....Maybe Mageia. I tried Mandrake when it was still called Mandrake but that was so long ago. Mandriva I didn't liked the way they were moving. So I downloaded the Mageia beta 2 boot.iso and did a network install. A minimal kde setup wich i prefer (from the Arch days). Installed the apps I'm using wich is mainly qt apps. And I must say. This is the only distro I can say is really really great. It is just perfect. And I have been using Linux on and off for many years.
Now I want to learn everything I can about this distro that I can.

Hmmm talking a lot about nothing it seems.
I'm a guy from Sweden from a City called Malmö. I'm, 31 years old and I have two kids and a wife. Working as a Security Guard here in Sweden and on my sparetime I try to learn qt, c++ developing. I also ride horses Race horses.

Looking forward to be a part of the Mageia community and hopefully I can contribute someday when i learn how to package, translate and save some money....

[obgr_seneca]

Welcome aboard then...

If you want to know how you could contribute to Mageia, see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Contributing

Oliver

[marja]

Hi people.

So I downloaded the Mageia beta 2 boot.iso and did a network install. A minimal kde setup wich i prefer (from the Arch days). Installed the apps I'm using wich is mainly qt apps. And I must say. This is the only distro I can say is really really great. It is just perfect. And I have been using Linux on and off for many years.
Now I want to learn everything I can about this distro that I can.

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Looking forward to be a part of the Mageia community and hopefully I can contribute someday when i learn how to package, translate and save some money....

Thanks a lot for the feed back, cmj, we are very glad you enjoy Mageia

You are already part of the Mageia community

The link obgr_seneca gave is great, please try all the links you're interested in, but feel free to look around everywhere, https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Main_Page and/or join us on IRC https://wiki.mageia.org/en/IRC and/or become a member of the mailing lists you're interested in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_subsc ... ling_lists