[Mageia-discuss] page of Mageia in wikipedia (in english) has been deleted
Macxi
terraagua at gmail.com
Sun May 20 16:39:44 CEST 2012
Hi,
I think Is possible to create the Mageia page in wikipedia again, but if it is
like before, it will be deleted again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review
I saw the page Mageia (en) which was deleted in googlecach (some days ago) and I
saved it on my computer and it helps give an idea of how to modify and improve
to prevent it is not deleted again.
I make available a copy of it through a link from the dropbox:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1220932/mg/wikipedia/Mageia-EN-wikipedia.html
To avoid being eliminated again, I think it is necessary to meet the criteria of
wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability_requires_verifiable_evidence
There are many other pages of the worst linux distro that's Mageia, but I
believe that in this case, maybe have occurred was a junction of two events the
one hand, the accuracy of deletionists of wikipedia, but on the other, may be
need to a better editing of mageia page of wikipedia, and to include all these
verifiable evidences, these independent and verifiable sources, that the Mageia
already have.
Perhaps the drastic attitude, of deletionists of wikipedia can result in
something good: to make the community edit a great Mageia page on wikipedia -
with more important information for people to better understand the mageia
Maybe we need to add a lot of sources that we know are available on the
Internet. Maybe, for people to know the differences, to be published a table
comparing the technical aspects of Mandriva and Magea
Mandriva 2010.1
KDE, Gnome etc - RPM - MCC - systemd - Dracut?
Mageia 1
KDE, Gnome etc - RPM - MCC - sysvinit - initrd?
Mageia 2
KDE, Gnome etc - RPM - MCC - systemd - Dracut?
Mandriva 2011
KDE - RPM v5* - MCC - systemd - Dracut?
(* I think this information is important, because I imagine that this system RPM
v5 makes the repositories of Mageia incompatible with the repository of Mandriva
2011 and the Rosa.
(see: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=495&start=25#p9180 )
Any person registered can create the page again, but someone has to help edit it
to get better, to prevent it is not deleted again.
Below is a suggested text, with some reference.
(excuse me for my mistakes in english)
Cheers
Macxi
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MAGEIA PAGE IN WIKIPEDIA:
Mageia'''' 'is a linux distribution, an operating system based on Linux kernel,
graphics and environments with multiple applications to be installed in various
types of computers, is [[free software] ] [[GLP]]. It is a [[fork -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29]] Mandriva 2010.1,
so it is based on RPM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager )
Mageia was created in 2010, and developed by the community of users and
developers, under the coordination of Mageia.org, French nonprofit organization,
manages and coordinates the distribution, code and software hosting and
distribution, builds system, and carries out marketing, fosters communication
and events.
The first release of the software distribution, Mageia 1, took place in June
2011.[3]
According to DistroWatch, Mageia is the 7th most visited Linux-based operating
system on their site as of April 2012 and it is the third most visited RPM-based
Linux distribution behind Fedora and openSUSE.[5]
== History ==
The Mageia was established in 2010 as a folk Mandriva 2010.1, for a group of
former employees of Mandriva and several other developers and users and
supporter of the Mandriva community. Although created in 2010. the events that
led to the creation of Mageia relate the economic crisis of the Mandriva company
and its commercial approach and a great distance from the user community of
Mandriva Linux distribution, generating complaints.
The Company MandrakSoft, former name of the Company Mandriva, filed for
bankruptcy in 27/janeiro/2003. In 2004, he accepted plea agreement to pay the
debt allowing the acquisition of several companies (Edge IT, Conectiva and
Linbox), changing its name to Mandriva.
In 2006, Mandriva fires one of its founders and main developers, Gael Duval.
(Http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1015784/mandriva-fires-its-creator)
The crises of the company Mandriva Mandriva has led some officials to discuss with
the community of developers and users, in 2007, the the creation with the
creation of an entity (http://foundation.zarb.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) to
make the distro's development closer to the community and a more stable aela But
discussion was not carried forward.
In April 2010 came news that the sale was Mandriva (http://www.presence-
pc.com/actualite/Mandriva-Linux-39261/) and that there could be dismissal of
employees (http://lwn.net / Articles/494786 /) (http://lwn.net/Articles/494506/)
(http://lwn.net/Articles/441916/) which generated concerns about the end of the
Mandriva Linux distribution, but was denied by the company
(http://blog.mandriva.com/br/2010/05/12/situacao-da-mandriva/).
On September 17, 2010 Mandriva the company held a General Assembly that
approved the entry of new shareholders in Russia
(http://lwn.net/Articles/406467/), and also decided not to rehire the employees
of the Mandriva team (Edge IT in France). The next day, in 18/setembro/2010
these terminated employees (who were mostly responsible for the development and
maintenance of the distribution Mandriva), decidiramm, create Mageia with the
support of many members of the community of developers, users and employees
Mandriva Linux, an attitude explained by a public statement.
(Http://www.mageia.org/en/about/2010-sept-announcement.html).
The procedures for the organization of the new Linux distribution began to be
reported via the Mageia Blog (http://blog.mageia.org/en/2010/09/21/thank-you/),
which can be found the reports of the tasks and challenges of creating the
Mageia.
In 26/novembro/2010 announced the creation of Mageia.org
(http://blog.mageia.org/en/2010/11/26/news-about-the-association/), French
nonprofit organization (Association Loi 1901), an entity required to undertake
formal aspects of the development of Mageia.
== Versions ==
Mageia is released on a 9-month release cycle and each release is supported for
18 months.[6]
=== Latest version ===
The latest stable version is Mageia 1, released in June 2011.
=== Development version ===
The development version of Mageia is known as Cauldron and is what becomes the
next release of Mageia.[7]
== Goals ==
The following goals were listed in the organization's announcement on 18
September 2010:[4]
Make Linux and Free and Open Source Software straightforward to use for
everyone;
Provide integrated system configuration tools;
Keep a high-level of integration between the base system, the desktop (KDE,
GNOME, etc.) and applications; especially improve third-parties (be it free or
proprietary software) integration;
Target new architectures and form-factors; and
Improve understanding of computers and electronics devices users.
== Name ==
The term "mageia" — μαγεία in Greek — means "magic" in English. It is a
reference to Mandrake (the magician), the original name of the Mandriva
distribution (Mandrake Linux).[8]
== References ==
^ [https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Archive:Mageia_1_supported_locales
"Archive:Mageia 1 supported locales] - Mageia wiki". Wiki.mageia.org. Retrieved
2012-04-20.
^
[https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_1_Release_Notes#CLI_Package_Management_Tools
"Mageia 1 Release Notes - Mageia wiki"]. Wiki.mageia.org. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
^ [http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia a b
"DistroWatch.com: Mageia"]. 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
^ [http://www.mageia.org/en/about/2010-sept-announcement.html a b c "A New
Linux Distribution".] Mageia. 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
^ [http://distrowatch.com/ "DistroWatch"]. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
^ [http://www.muktware.com/blogs/1878 "Mageia Goes For 9 Month Release
Cycle"]. 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
^ [https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron "Cauldron - Mageia wiki"]. Retrieved
2012-04-20.
^ [http://www.waybeta.com/news/85180/mandriva-linux-bifurcation-mageia-
project-released-the-first-alpha-version-of-_mandriva-linux/ "Mandriva Linux
bifurcation Mageia project released the first Alpha version of _Mandriva Linux"].
waybeta. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
== See also ==
Portal icon Free Software portal
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux Mandriva Linux] distribution
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva Mandriva, SA] (corporation)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS PCLinuxOS] — another Linux
Distribution based on Mandriva Linux
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Linux Unity Linux] — a Mandriva-based
distribution designed to be a base for end user distributions.
== External links ==
[http://www.mageia.org/ Official website]
[http://wiki.mageia.org/ Mageia Wiki]
[https://www.mageia.org/mailman/ Mailing lists]
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