Before we get to the rest of the information: we dedicate this release to the memory of Eugeni Dodonov, our friend, our colleague and a great inspiration to those he left behind. We miss his brilliance, his courtesy and his dedication.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/05/19/all-grown-up-and-ready-to-go-dancing-mageia-3s-out/

After the jump from Mageia to Mageia 2 last year, we’re looking forward to seeing how the team can make the distro even better when Mageia 3 comes out. We’ve had some great previews over the last few months, however with the May release date looming larger, the Release Candidate is now available, giving us a better taste of whats to come.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/mageia-3-rc-out-now

We are reaching the final run for Mageia 3 release: beta 2 isos are available for tests. This was a real release full of server failures and bugs . Still, the QA team did a fantastic work as usual.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/01/25/time-for-tests-mageia-3-beta-2-is-out/

As we prepare to enter a new year, the big names that have dominated the Linux world for the past decade–Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), Canonical/Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE–are unchanged. But they may be joined in 2013 by a newcomer to the open source channel, Mageia Linux, which has been enjoying staggering popularity since its creation barely two years ago. Where might it head next?

Read the full thing at http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/12/27/young-mageia-linux-distribution-surges-in-popularity/

As said in a previous post, people are now back to work, focused on Mageia 3 release. So it was time again to define the specifications for the coming release. We then thought it was time to improve the process used for Mageia 2

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/08/09/mageia-features-process/

Mandriva recently announced that it will transfer the responsibility of the Mandriva Linux distribution to an independent entity. We would very much like to express our very best wishes for this new entity.

In other news, Mandriva announced that they will use the Mageia distribution as a technical platform for their new Business Server product.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/21/mageia-comes-full-circle/

Mageia 2 was released 2 weeks ago. The QA and security teams are working hard to fix bugs and provide security updates. It’s time now to think about our next release: no rest for the Brave!

We have now a full plan for Mageia 3, which will be released in spring 2013

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/06/11/cauldron-is-boiling-again-never-2-without-3/

Mageia began its life not so long ago by being a community fork of the Mandriva Linux distribution. The future of Mandriva, as a company, has been in question for years prompting several developers and users to push for an independent, community-oriented distro. The first release of Mageia, version 1, got off to a fairly good start. It didn't vary much technologically from Mandriva and felt a bit like a test run, as though the developers were making sure all the proper infrastructure was in place.

Read the full thing at http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120604#feature

Mageia has been pretty popular ever since its original release last year. While all Linux distributions give you more choice than any other operating system, Mageia was one of the few distros that has a lot of these choices upfront. This is partly due to it being an offshoot of Mandriva, however the team at Mageia have taken it noticeably further.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/mageia-2-review-pure-magic/

We’re the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2!

We’ve had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Read the full announcement at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/22/mageia-2/

After some discussions between the Mageia Council and the Packagers’ team, we’ve decided to make some changes to the Mageia 2 release schedule.

There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one being that we feel that the list of important bugs still remaining to be solved needs more time and attention before we release.

Read the full announcement at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/04/05/revised-release-schedule-for-mageia-2/

Only one and a half months till the final release of Mageia 2. A week ago we entered the version freeze and everybody is focused on fixing bugs.

All Mageia contributors have been working very hard and we are all anxious now to finalize this second version. We need your tests more than ever. Download it and enjoy!

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/03/15/mageia-2-beta-2-near-the-goal/

We are now entering last run for Mageia 2 release: first beta is now available for tests. Beta step is essential as it will focus on fixing bugs and improving integration for all distribution. This is now also the main focus for our packagers team. They are waiting for your reports!

Read the full thing, and download, at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/21/mageia-2-is-approaching-test-mageia-2-beta-1/

We’re all excited today! We’re at the first milestone on our way to Mageia 2 – Alpha 1 ISOs are ready for download.

Now it’s time for everyone to test, test, test and report bugs – so that Mageia 2 will be in great shape for release in May.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/11/25/mageia-2-alpha1-ready-for-testing/

Initially planned for the 16th of November, our first alpha ISOs for Mageia 2 are postponed to the 25th of November.

Read more at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/11/19/mageia-2-1-delay/

I took the plunge to migrate my personal / business desktop PC from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1 today (Sunday, 4 September 2011). I used the instructions from this page: Migrate from Mandriva Linux. Specifically the section titled, “b) Upgrading inline, using urpmi (CLI)”. The migration is roughly three quarters done as I type this. I decided to try to use the PC while I ran the migration from console 1 (Ctrl Alt F1). In preparation for this I closed programs I suspected would be most affected.

Read the full thing at http://blog.eracc.com/2011/09/04/open-source-live-migration-of-mandriva-to-mageia/

The Mageia project has announced the arrival of a first preview of a Mageia port for ARM processors. According to the developers, the Mageia ARM port, code-named "arm eabi", will use the hard float feature of Cortex family processors. It currently includes several development tools, basic network services, Firefox and LibreOffice and a full GNOME desktop environment – a minimal version of KDE is also included.

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Technical-preview-of-Mageia-ARM-port-1267888.html

Mageia represents the magic one can find if they harness the power of community with a good codebase and selfless coordinators and developers. Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux, a worthy distribution in its own right. Most forks happen because of differences in opinion of the way the code or project is headed. Perhaps someone thinks a particular focus or feature should be followed or added. But lately we've seen two major forks out of concern for the future existence of the project. Mageia is one of those.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spotlight-linux-mageia-1

We are the Mageia community, and today we are happy to tell everyone that our first release, Mageia 1, is out and available for download.

For people who want to cut to the chase, you can see what’s available, choose your version and download it from http://mageia.org/downloads

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/06/01/mageia-1/

Here it is! This is the last development release before the first stable version of Mageia. Again we are in time, thanks to the hard work of all the community.

You can choose and download your favourite edition. This release is mainly about bug fixes and translation updates. Live CDs should be available in the coming days.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/05/17/final-release-approaching-now-rc-available-for-last-tests/