Mageia 8 is out

As announced on the project site, Mageia 8 is now out ! It’s great to see the community succeeding in another joint work to publish that one.

Now, I have to update my servers, my laptops, my workstations in order to benefit from it. Won’t happen tomorrow however, as each time I need to check for major release updates and potential migration aspects before doing so. Using it for all what I do from apache, freedb, squid, shorewall to gnucash, tellico, digikam, and of course the usual firefox, thunderbird/mutt, libreoffice, that’s quite some software to test. Not counting the one I need to use on top of it such as teams, hpemyroom, zoom, openconnect with a Yubikey for my work.

Will start to look at shorewall first and fix my ansible playbooks to deploy the conf once the machine has been updated. Some fun ahead 😉

Congrats to all of you who contributed to that release (myself included in fact !!)

Tags: FLOSS, Mageia, Open Source