After a 2 year development period, Mageia 6 has been released:
https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/a ... -mageia-6/
Jim
Mageia 6 released
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Re: Mageia 6 released
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....
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....
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Re: Mageia 6 released
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.
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
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bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (nb_NO.UTF-8): No such file or directory
My /etc/locale conf is set up to be Norwegian:
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LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nb:noThis 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
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dnf updateI 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.
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
locale bug fix!
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....
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sudo dnf install 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....
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Re: Mageia 6 released
Installed in the Laptop. Seems to be fine with Plasma. Going to update my Dell Precision 490.
Re: Mageia 6 released
It is fine i Xfce4 too ...if you are not Norwegian....
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Re: Mageia 6 released
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 