Mageia Alpha 0 Still on Track for January Release, Joins OIN
Initial release of Mandriva fork Mageia is still on track for release later this month. Numerous preparations continue behind the scenes to facilitate this highly anticipated release.
A previous report of an earlier packagers' meeting outlined some of the procedures and personnel in place and still needed to begin the process of building Mageia software. Hardware and temporary hosting was secured and the build system was being implemented. In a more recent blog posting, Mageia representatives stated that "packaging tasks have been launched." While the build system isn't fully operational, the first 40 packages are expected in the coming days as letters describing the SVN upload process, which is ready, have been sent. Mentors are being paired with new developers who did not previously have an account so they can begin their work as well.
The same post stated that the migration to permanent Web hosting isn't complete as of yet. The holidays contributed to the lag, but progress moving "Bugzilla, www, maintainers, account management, calendar, code repositories" is slowly being made. Completion is expected this month.
Despite running a bit behind, founders do not anticipate a delay in announcing their initial technical release. Alpha 0, as it is being called, is still on track for sometime in January. Anne Nicolas warns that it is just that - an alpha. She said, "things will be way more interesting in the coming months." The alpha was previously described as "Mandriva with the branding removed." From there Mageia is expected to diverge from Mandriva and slowly build its own identity.
In other Mageia news, it was announced that "Mageia.org has just joined Open Invention Network as a licensee." OIN was formed to help protect and share patents held by Linux members and to defend against patent infringement allegations from outside the Linux sphere. Many projects have joined OIN, either as members or licensees, to further this cause. Some include Novell, GNOME, Canonical, Red Hat, Mozilla, and KDE.
Susan Linton is a Linux writer and the owner of tuxmachines.org.
Today’s modular x86 servers are compute-centric, designed as a least common denominator to support a wide range of IT workloads. Those generic, virtualized IT workloads have much different resource optimization requirements than hyperscale and cloud applications. They have resulted in a “one size fits all” enterprise IT architecture that is not optimized for a specific set of IT workloads, and especially not emerging hyperscale workloads, such as web applications, big data, and object storage. In this report, you will learn how shifting the focus from traditional compute-centric IT architectures to an innovative disaggregated fabric-based architecture can optimize and scale your data center.
Sponsored by AMD
Built-in forensics, incident response, and security with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Every security policy provides guidance and requirements for ensuring adequate protection of information and data, as well as high-level technical and administrative security requirements for a system in a given environment. Traditionally, providing security for a system focuses on the confidentiality of the information on it. However, protecting the data integrity and system and data availability is just as important. For example, when processing United States intelligence information, there are three attributes that require protection: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Learn more about catching the bad guy in this free white paper.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions
| Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds) | May 16, 2013 |
| Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This | May 15, 2013 |
| Home, My Backup Data Center | May 13, 2013 |
| Non-Linux FOSS: Seashore | May 10, 2013 |
| Trying to Tame the Tablet | May 08, 2013 |
| Dart: a New Web Programming Experience | May 07, 2013 |
- RSS Feeds
- Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds)
- New Products
- Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This
- A Topic for Discussion - Open Source Feature-Richness?
- Home, My Backup Data Center
- Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way
- New Products
- Developer Poll
- Trying to Tame the Tablet
- not living upto the mobile revolution
1 hour 39 min ago - Deceptive Advertising and
2 hours 14 min ago - Let\'s declare that you have
2 hours 15 min ago - Alterations in Contest Due
2 hours 16 min ago - At a numbers mindset, your
2 hours 17 min ago - Do not get Just Almost any
2 hours 21 min ago - A fantastic rule-of-thumb to
2 hours 22 min ago - Keren mastah..
Penting,
3 hours 20 min ago - mini tablet compare
4 hours 39 min ago - Looking Good
8 hours 12 min ago
Enter to Win an Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi

It's Raspberry Pi month at Linux Journal. Each week in May, Adafruit will be giving away a Pi-related prize to a lucky, randomly drawn LJ reader. Winners will be announced weekly.
Fill out the fields below to enter to win this week's prize-- a Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi.
Congratulations to our winners so far:
- 5-8-13, Pi Starter Pack: Jack Davis
- 5-15-13, Pi Model B 512MB RAM: Patrick Dunn
- Next winner announced on 5-21-13!
Free Webinar: Linux Backup and Recovery
Most companies incorporate backup procedures for critical data, which can be restored quickly if a loss occurs. However, fewer companies are prepared for catastrophic system failures, in which they lose all data, the entire operating system, applications, settings, patches and more, reducing their system(s) to “bare metal.” After all, before data can be restored to a system, there must be a system to restore it to.
In this one hour webinar, learn how to enhance your existing backup strategies for better disaster recovery preparedness using Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin), a highly flexible bare-metal recovery solution for UNIX and Linux systems.



Comments
Mageia build sytem is up
Mageia build system status website :
http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/
Mageia now contains 1000 src.rpm !
All hail Mageia! I can't
All hail Mageia! I can't wait to see how Alpha 0 does, and the upcoming months sound like they will bring with them many improvements and upgraded features. Here is a really awesome article with easy explanations of what we can expect from Alpha 0 http://blog.mageia.org/?p=363Essay
Check it out, there's some good info there. Thanks for the post and the continued hype!
Mageia still on track
Good to see that the old Mandrake is making a come back through Mageia. I had used Mandrake/Mandriva until 07 when I got my (still) current PC. On a recommendation, I switched to Debian testing. I will give Mageia a try when it goes Beta.
On a side note, my favorite candidate for the logo was the yellow orb supported by the green tendrils. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mgaorange/)