Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[marja]

Welcome, scpackerfan, and lots of joy using Mageia and being in the Mageia community

[KnightMB]

Hi Everyone,
I've been a very long time user of Mandrake / Mandriva (always donated to get the new release every year up to 2011) and while I'm certainly one of those left over from Mandriva with the attitude of "pull 2010 from my cold, dead hands" crowd that wasn't happy with the 2011 release, I thought I would give the Mageia family a try finally.

Wow, what a refreshing change it was! Everything I loved about the old Mandriva, just updated a bit for modern times. Install was a snap, everything flowed nice and the Mageia theme is very eye appealing. Mageia has all tweaks I use a lot and after reading over the community forum here, looks to be very strong and growing.

So my great appreciation to the Mageia team and I can finally look back at the Mandriva days and wish them well as I believe I'll be pulling for Mageia now.

Being a newbie here now, if anyone has some good links for me to read as I would be willing to help the Mageia team in anyway that I can.

[isadora]

Very welcome to the Mageia forum KnightMB!!!!

As you might have noticed, i switched your first message into the "Welcome"-topic.

And yes, you might find many known names around.

[marja]

So my great appreciation to the Mageia team and I can finally look back at the Mandriva days and wish them well as I believe I'll be pulling for Mageia now.

Being a newbie here now, if anyone has some good links for me to read as I would be willing to help the Mageia team in anyway that I can.

Welcome, KnightMB

Great that you are willing to help
Here are some links for people who want to contribute:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Contributing

I'm curious what you'll choose

Cheers,
marja

[isadora]

...
Welcome, KnightMB
........
Cheers,
marja

Excellent, thank you for the warm welcome and the links to get started!

[doktor5000]

Please next time do not use fullquotes, but only use the Reply function. Greatly improves clarify and reading flow

[isadora]

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

And now??? We kept and keep on growing!!!

[Nov]

Hey everyone, installing now.

[vecciora]

Hello, I'm a Mageia user who thinks that Mageia is the only Linux distro that works flawlessly on his netbook.

-Tried Fedora but had an issue with internet connection.
- Tried OpenSUSE but had an issue with AMD proprietary driver performance. Can't stand Yast2 and zypper for being too complicated (at least for me).
- Tried Ubuntu but had an issue about Unity not working after installed AMD proprietary driver.
- Tried Mageia. Everything works flawlessly from the start. Had an issue with my touchpad but that was fixed in mere seconds via MCC.

That's what defines me as a Mageia user who thinks that Mageia is the only Linux distro that works flawlessly on his netbook.

Sorry for my poor English.

[doktor5000]

Sorry for my poor English.

Welcome to the Mageia community

And your english looks just fine

[daniewicz]

Hello!

Mandrake/Mandriva user since 2005. Recently installed Mageia 2 and after a few bumps have been pleased. Nice looking active forum!

[isadora]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia forum daniewicz!!!!

Wish you good fun and magical times around!!!!

[Kimiad]

Hi there, I'm new on Mageia . I've never quite used Mandriva before and I come from an Ubuntu / Debian background. I stopped using linux for some time and as I came back I started wondering where to go and what to try. Mageia was exactly what I was looking for: a new experience and a friendly community in which I'd like to settle and help this wonderful project (if I can !). Now Mageia is installed on my two pc . Cya soon on the forum !

[isadora]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia forum Kimiad.
Thanks for your introduction, and great to have you around.

Enjoy our community and even better, hit the "Contribute"-link above and get interested into contributing for our great distribution.

Have magical times around!!!

[ti-paul]

In the Linux world since the 90's.
I've gone through so many different distributions / versions.
I though that i was "stabilizing" my choice over Debian Testing/Wheezy but since it has frozen in order to become the next stable release, i saw no more evolution in the applications/desktop thus, less interested...
Now i have Linux Mint 14 "Cinnamon" and Mageia 3 "KDE" side-to-side.

Now for my personal part :
I'm an electronic technician which has some basic 'C' and bash script knowledge.
Always worked in companies that had links with the computer world (Matrox graphic cards, Marconi Optical Networks, computer technician in a city schools board, and now at MAX Technologies for computer acquisition cards for avionics).

I have two little kids (2008 and 2010) so i now have less time for my favorite hobby : Trying distributions.

So i may end-up having a long-time relationship with Mageia, who knows?

[isadora]

Very welcome to the Mageia forum ti-paul!!!!

Mageia is a great distribution, supported by people like you and me.
All in free time and with great enthusiasm.
We can be proud, about what is reached this far, but the future is the challenge.

Have great and magical times around, and don't forget to have a look at our "Contribute"-link above.

[Kimiad]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia forum Kimiad.
Thanks for your introduction, and great to have you around.

Enjoy our community and even better, hit the "Contribute"-link above and get interested into contributing for our great distribution.

Have magical times around!!!

Thank you, I hope to contribute as soon as possible .

[Kunura]

Hey! I am presently making the switch to Mageia (iso is downloading right now); I have used different Linux distros for about a year, so I am never too worried about trying out a new one. I'm installing Mageia because one of my machines was getting bogged down in distros I don't use anymore, so I went in to Win7 and just formatted their partitions. Whelp, now Grub is gone, so I can't very well load any OS on that machine now! So I decided that while I would need a new, clean install from a USB to get things back to normal, I would want something a bit more long-term (so as to not repeat this fiasco again), and after a lot of looking about and reading what people have had to say, I've found myself here!

[madeye]

Welcome to the forums. I hope you enjoy your stay, and if you should run into any problems let's see if can't solve them together.

[swestlake]

Hi, I'm new here and notice others have posted about their experience with Mandriva. I've checked out Mageia2 and found it to be a friendly distro, and maybe bounced around a bit with the latest Mandriva-- but what happened? Mandriva went zut! like magic.. So I started checking out zat! with Mageai

In actuality my first Linux I tried was Mandrake.. back long time ago. I'm not new to Linux and believe Mageia has something the other distros don't have (the rich user interfaces for it's install).. but needs improvement.. so I decided to open an account and to volunteer helping out and to see how things go.. I believe Mageia has alot of good things to offer, will be glad to see what more I can do because I'm thinking of migrating to it while I get acquainted with it in virtualbox
(so far 1 bug report, it's not much but it's only day#2 for my newly made account --I'm still learning the ropes

[isadora]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum swestlake!!!!
And great to hear you offering contributions for our distribution.

Have magical times around!!!

[marja]

........ so I decided to open an account and to volunteer helping out and to see how things go.........

Hi swestlake

Great that you want to help
It was really nice to see you in irc://irc.freenode.net/#mageia-doc and I'm glad I can reply to you here (since you won't see the answer if I reply on IRC now ):

Yes, it is fine to contribute to docteam if you have very little time. Even if you can write, improve or translate only one page of our documentation: your help is more than welcome

[VoodooDali]

Hello all

My name's Alan but I go by VoodooDali or just "Voo", here and in other forums. Call me whatever you like, though -- I'll take anything except "VD" I'm a Dutch-descended American living in Chicago (come and visit!)

Been using Linux off-and-on since 2002 or so. I've tried Red Hat, Ubuntu and Kubuntu, Mint, Slax, OpenSUSE, and Mandriva. So far Mandy was my favorite distribution, being fast, functional and beautiful. I only abandoned it after Manders went thppppt around 2010.

When I got Celene (my current laptop), I reluctantly went with Kubuntu because I was partial to KDE, and because it was closest to a KDE distro that "just plain worked". But it was an unhappy match: Celene's GPU was overheating for no reason I could think of, regardless which driver/version I was using -- and using Kubuntu's faulty tools, there was no way to be absolutely sure which driver that was.

So just about a month or so ago, I learned about Mageia's spin-off from Manders and rejoiced. Since Kubuntu was crashing anyway, and since I didn't care for Kubuntu's prospects after Canonical's withdrawal, I took the opportunity to try it out. (I'm a tweaker and a tester at heart, so I couldn't resist the beta for Mageia 3.)

YES It works. It's fast, functional and beautiful. It's better than I remembered. It's actually *run* by its Community. I've already received warm welcomes and good feedback from members of the Atelier working group. In short, I'm sold.

I look forward to getting to know you all, and bouncing our ideas off one another.

Best Wishes -- Alan (Voo)

[isadora]

And another welcome to the Mageia forum VoodooDali!!!!

Thanks for your great introduction.
Have great and magical times around!!!

And, by the way, the community needs hands all the time.
Have a look at:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/
...and see where you can be part of the making.

[TechnoMage]

Hello, I'm Richard, living in the UK.
I've been interested in Linux for many years, although my "education", as it were is with MS.
In the past I have used many linux distros' FC2 started it mainly, and a lot followed!, Hopefully I have found a new home here, and look forwards to meeting as many of you all as I can, (although work consumes many many hours of my time ).
Currently, I run a private server, (an EQ emulator), and am going to install Mageia under VM, I have experience of documenting installs etc, so if i can be of service feel free to ask
By the way, heres a fun thing, learnt far too many years ago...... MICROSOFT=Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers.