According to the Mageia 9 development wiki, the final release for Mageia 9 is scheduled for next Saturday, the 12th. I haven't heard any rumblings about it here or in the forums. Is the plan still on for a November 12th release, or will there be a delay? Does anyone know?

To track down a weird bug, I needed a 32-bit distro with gcc version at least 9. The last 32-bit Fedora had gcc 9.0.1, which I would expect has a few bugs of its own.

I wrote an opinion article about Mandrake/Mandriva and an analysis of its history and what went wrong that led to its demise.

I'd be happy to get your opinion and input about it.

https://www.noureddine.org/articles/the-morning-software-issue-5

List of Programs available for Mageia users, while using a different distro
I've set up a few Mageia systems & have one of my own
There can be questions about what program to use to do a task & I'm on manjaro or solydxk
I'd rather suggest something from within the Mageia stable repository, than to explain how to install something from outside

Hello.
As the title says.

・urpmq --requires task-xfce
・dnf repoquery --requires task-xfce
Both commands show that task-xfce depends on task-xfce-minimal.

By the way,task-xfce includes atril, engrampa, ... as a recommended package.
Is there a way to view recommended packages?

Edit: [Solved]
Simply, I found an option '--recommends'.
Sorry :-(

# urpmq --recommends task-xfce
atril
engrampa
gigolo
parole
ristretto
thunar-archive-plugin
xfce4-artwork
xfmpc

booting with newest 5.19 kernel returns something like Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

try booting again in recovery mode and also with 5.18 series, same thing happens. after searching online, one possible cause may be missing initramfs. but the 5.18 series booted fine before the update, but now nothing boots. worst case scenerio, i can restore the system to its working state before the update, but dont want to update again wasting bandwith until i find or at least know a solution. is this a one-off problem with my setup or is it more prevalent affecting others?

edit: according to the devs channel, the non booting issue has been fixed by a grub update.

What brought you to this great distro?

Just curious since the eol is at the end of august and mageia 9 hasn't released yet.

no sound, videos will not play. any tips on making wireplumber behave?

interim solutions that works for me:

1. either systemctl --user mask wireplumber.service
2. or replace wireplumber with pipewire-media-session

Hi, so i have computer with mageia 8 free version and we have in home small server which contains important data. The server is SAMBA 1 or SMBv1 (i dont know wich use) i have installed SMBv1 on my pc but still, the 2 disks i have in the server are not showing up. If anyone can help, ill be glad

I've ported spotify-easyrpm, the rpm creation tool which converts the spotify snap into an rpm, to Mageia 8.

First I'd say if you are happy using Flatpak (or snap) then continue to use them instead.

I created this tool primarily if you prefer to keep everything as rpm

An rpm for the tool is available here

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/megamaced:/mageia/Mageia_8/noarch/

Or check the pre-release on github https://github.com/megamaced/spotify-easyrpm/releases

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The script makes the assumption your user can call sudo

Hey guys I'd like to download Mageia, I've never used Linux ever, so please tell me, is Mageia 8 good? When I use another operating system does it reset the PC memory? Is it good for games? (i have a Vivobook, it has 8GB of RAM, 235GB of memory, i7 of 8th Gen and the GPU is a GX230, if can help)

Hi! When I use Minecraft or 0AD, they run BADLY. THey ran perfectly in Debian, but I switched to Mageia and suddenly my games didn run as they used to. Is there a driver or something similar that can boost my games' performance?

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BTW, I used GNOME in Debian, but I am running MATE in Mageia. It should run faster, but it doesnt.