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After a 2 year development period, Mageia 6 has been released:

https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/a ... -mageia-6/

Jim

Looks really interesting ( I have to admit that Mageia has not looked interesting to me for a while now).
I have had the pleasure of testing DNF on Fedora and now Mageia 6 will have it.
This is probably better than urpmi but die hard Mageia people will surely disagree...

Support for Fedora and Suse build systems to provide third party packages sounds good and enhances flexibility.

Will test it....

Installed Mageia 6 and the installer was all in my locale.
After adding me as a user in addition to root I got two(?) popup windows stating that I had changed to another locale and if I wanted to keep the old names.

I did want that so I checked it on both windows. the terminal did contain a message that has become all to familiar to me in the last years

My /etc/locale conf is set up to be Norwegian:


This is a problem on all Mandriva/Mandrake derivatives - They don't like Norwegian.

I have given up on this by now since it has been a problem for years.

Disappointing.

Dnf works out of the box though. I did a and it behaved well.

I chose the Xfce version and it comes with the excellent Whisker menu.
I also know that it comes with an excellent Norwegian translation and I don't get it in Mageia due to locale problems.


Nano is not the default so I had to install it. Sudo is not there either so I had to install it.

Mageia 6 behaves well in VB and looks good too.

About dang time...

I manged to fix the lack of my locale by installing locales-no

...reboot.

After that I have Norwegian as an option and the error messages in the terminal are gone. That file should have been there so that is a bug.
Maybe the language file cleanup in the install is too thorough.
But now I have a fairly elegant and functional Mageia here.


As you can see I have put the menu at the bottom - in the vanilla Xfce4 install it is on the top.
....
it turns out that the locale system is a mess.
Lightdm gives me the oportunity to check Norwegian Bokmål and that results in Russian! Norwegian nynorsk will work but that is only used by 10 %
I tried to switch to LXDM but the locale settings are still a mess.
Variations of a theme that has been going on for years....

Installed in the Laptop. Seems to be fine with Plasma. Going to update my Dell Precision 490.

It is fine i Xfce4 too ...if you are not Norwegian....

Loaded on my Dell Precision 490 and got Citrix to work. After installing with the Tar Ball, a new file Association had to be made. Tested last night and works really good