AussieJohn Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Does anyone else know if Mageia is offline at the moment ?. I haven't been able to raise it for about the Past 24 hours or more. I am wondering if it is in relation to the pending release of Mageia-5 which has been delayed numerous times. I hope it has not gone under. That would be a terrible tragedy. I am hoping that at worst it is possibly just the servers are temporarily down though some fault or something like that. Cheers. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 I was correct. It was a server problem and Mageia is mostly back on line again. Hooray. Cheers. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 You were absolutely right John: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2015/06/07/mageia-servers-are-down/ Bad timing as amid the final magic in the making of Mageia 5. But gladly everything is going smooth again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 And down again. :( Must be overheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 And down again. :( Must be overheating. Report on IRC is that there was a power outage in the data centre. Hopefully none of Mageia's hardware has been damaged. TuxFamily are hosted in the same data centre: http://tuxfamily.org/fr/news/2015061200 Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 But the magic continues. :) On air again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 (edited) Hi all, I'm a bit late. No, I can't see Mageia going away any time soon. While I'm not heavily involved, I do see plenty of bugs getting squashed and lots of hustling in the background. There is a huge amount of work going on for Mageia 5, which is now only a few days away. The servers have not been the most reliable things, having seen the site disappear a few times. I guess this is the reality of a true community distro vs. a commercial one. There's also a lot going on in the wider post mandriva world. Open Mandriva are releasing a Mandrake tribute edition....oh the nostalgia. and they have a viable ARM version also; but it's only cook ATM. There is a French company on google+ mageia community page talking of releasing PC's with Mageia PClinuxOS, just by looking over their site and community look to be as strong as ever moving forward. A German magazine is making Mageia the cover disc (easy linux, I believe) It's all very exciting times. i don't think I've anticipated a release as much as I am Mageia 5, it kills a few of my pet bugs, and it'll be great to get a fresh dose of apps again. Edited June 18, 2015 by xboxboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Well Mageia 5 was rock solid for my home desktop/server box and my business desktop/server box. Given the warning that kde4 to plazma upgrade was a bit glitchy, I went all out on my home desktop, making copies of / and /home and performing a couple of test upgrades as recommended from init3, and it all went pretty smoothly. For my business box, given my home test had proven to work several times, I only made a good copy of / and /home in case the upgrade failed. Same deal, booted to runlevel 3 and did the upgrade, only thing I had to reconfigure was my samba users and firewall. So I have two sweet, Mageia 6 plazma boxes, both upgraded from Mageia 5, ticking along perfectly. Works already under way for Mageia 7!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Exactly the same experiences here. My MSI-laptop (with NVIDIA on board) needed a fresh install to Mageia 6, because re-partitioning was needed in my case. The older desktop-machine went smoothly through the upgrade-procedure from Mageia 5. My brothers' laptop i upgraded remotely through a SSL-connection, and also that was no issue. Now i have Cauldron in VirtualBox, besides openSUSE-Leap and openSUSE-Tumbleed VM's. All of them up-to-date. Though, it must be said, i had to reinstall Cauldron one more time, after one update-session went miserably wrong when systemd-update hanged and frooze the virtual machine. After reboot i was left with only a grub-prompt. I also fiddled around with the other desktop-environments, and must say, was pleasantly surprised by XFCE, very neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 XFCE looks great on Mageia 6, I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Trying Mageia 6 Gnome on my old Dell laptop, just installed. Be a while since I tried Mageia, maybe 1 or 2. Feels like meeting back up with an old friend to be honest, except I keep thinking Mandrake / Mandriva, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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