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Contents
Discovery of Linux and Mageia
- Newcomers start here
- Presentation of Mageia for beginners
- List of applications
- From Windows to Mageia
- First step with Linux and Mageia
- Desktop environments
- First step with GNOME
- First step with KDE
- First step with LXDE
- First step with LXQt
- First step with MATE
- First step with Xfce
- LXDE desktop
- MATE Desktop
- First step with the command line and useful examples
The Community
Help us to improve our documentation, even for a few hours. Questions welcome on the #mageia-doc IRC channel, doc-discuss mailing list or forum .
Meet us in real life for help or information: Events of the year
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Installation
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- Installation Media
- How to choose the right Mageia upgrade method
- Mageia Netinstall Iso (Boot.iso)
- IsoDumper Writing ISO images on USB sticks
- Dump Mageia ISO on a USB flash drive - alternative tools
- Writing CD and DVD images
- Installing Mageia from ISO on disk
- Installation on an SSD (Solid State Drive)
- Install to removable device
- Persistent Live systems
- Installation of Mageia in dual boot with Windows
- Mageia in dual boot with Windows8 and onwards (UEFI)
- Installing Mageia from ISO images on disk using grub2
- Installing on systems with UEFI firmware
- Installing Mageia on ChromeOS devices
- Linx-7 tablet dual boot
- Install on device using RST, (Intel Rapid Storage Technology)
- Auto inst: Automated installation
- How to set up kernel options
- Ways to install programs (more than packaged)
MCC tools (also called Draktools)
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Configuring and using Mageia
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Software
Network - Internet- Azure
- Citrix Receiver
- Cookbook web2project
- Create a mirror inside your corporate network
- Dma Dragonfly Mail Agent
- Dmesgs compared
- Dropbox
- File sharing with Samba
- Finding Mageia rsync servers
- Flash Plugin Installation
- Google Earth
- Google Chrome
- How to develop a Website
- How to use iscsi
- Install java oracle
- Installing OpenAFS Client
- Nextcloud server
- Nextcloud SSL server with NGINX and Redis
- Saned
- Switching to networkmanager
- Systemd-networkd
- Systemd-timesyncd
- Tor encrypted network, The Onion Router
- Unbound : DNS cache and resolver
Package Management- URPMI
- Installing packages using DNF
- Installing packages using Flatpak
- Removing packages Warning on
urpme --auto-orphans - Building packages with Fedora COPR
- Building packages with OpenSUSE Build Service
- Building packages using Mock
- Building Live images
- How to do your own backports
- How to find a source RPM
- Urpmi-proxy
- Packaging for beginners
- Packaging guidelines
- Packagers RPM tutorial
Security
Virtualisation- Virtualisation (several alternatives)
- Installing VMware workstation 12.5.9 in Mageia 7
- Nomachine
- Systemd-nspawn
- Vagrant
- Virt-Manager
- VirtualBox
- XEN
Others- As easy as a shell
- Cauldron
- Debugging software crashes
- Display Managers
- Drakcowsay
- General troubleshooting
- Grub2-efi and Mageia
- How to add adb to console in Mageia
- How to add a new Window Manager or Display Manager
- How to configure an Android build environment in Mageia
- Input methods
- List of applications
- MariaDB (Database)
- Configuring autostart with MATE in Mageia
- Openbox
- Useful polkit policies
- Never use just su
- Use Mageia to play Windows Games
Hardware
Graphic and display
Sound
Network- Setup wireless networking and troubleshooting
- Skype with video
Scanners and Printers
Others
More Documentation
There are many more useful pages. For a full, alphabetical list of the Documentation pages look here.
