Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

replying to myself, I'd like to note that someone asked me to point out the
benefits of the Mageia Linux distribution. Well, for once this message was
primarily intended for people who already use it, but just in case: here is
some info about Mageia.

About Mageia:
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Mageia is a community fork of Mandriva Linux, which in turn is the new name of
Mandrake Linux. See:

* http://www.mageia.org/en/

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia

Mageia is currently the No. 2 distribution in popularity on DistroWatch:

http://distrowatch.com/

Benefits of Mageia:
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#. A user-friendly graphical installer.

#. Some convenient GUI system maintenance tools.

#. A wide selection of packages split into "core", "tainted" and "non-free".

#. A lot of glue and integration - components are made to work with one another.

#. Has a release every 9 months or so (so-far Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 were
released, Mageia 3 is in the works) and Mageia Cauldron, which is a rolling
distribution that stabilises into the next release.

#. Has versions for i586, x86-64 and an upcoming version for ARM. One can
configure and install some 32-bit packages on the x86-64 version.

#. Actively developed by the community and non-commercial.

#. Stable and secure, for desktop and server.

#. Contains up-to-date versions of the upstream packages.

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Hope that clarifies things.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:09:20 +0200
Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:

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> 
> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:58:52 +0200
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
> Cc: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
> Subject: Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> if you are a resident of Israel and would like to have an Israeli mirror of
> Mageia, please let http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ and me know. So far, the
> administrator of this mirror ( mirrormaster at isoc.org.il ) believes there is
> too little demand for it, and I would like to show him that this is not the
> case.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 



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