Mageia Linux

My Plasma Session Kept Dying. Plasma Was Innocent.

Losing every open document to a desktop that restarts itself is a specific kind of annoying. The crash was in the X server, in a feature my distribution had backported from a development branch onto a stable one — and the log said so on the first line I read.

Fixing an MSI Fn Key on Mageia Without Being a Firmware Hacker

My F7 key opened System Settings instead of switching performance profiles. I am not a hardware person — I followed a map other people had already drawn, and most of the work was reading their documentation carefully enough to notice which details mattered.

Packaging .NET 11 for Mageia Linux

Forward-porting Mageia's own dotnet spec to .NET 11 with no Fedora package to lean on — nineteen clean-chroot builds, fifteen failures, and one root cause hiding behind ten different error messages.

Packaging .NET 8 for Mageia Linux — A Comeback Story

After a decade away, I returned to Mageia packaging to bring .NET 8.0.28 and SDK 8.0.128 to the distribution — bootstrapping from Fedora sources and learning why packaging matters more than ever.