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Our equipment is getting a makeover!

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2025

Quoting: Our equipment is getting a makeover! | Mageia Blog (English) —

To do a good job, we need good tools. Some of our servers are old, no longer powerful enough and have limited disk resources to meet the needs of developers. RPM manufacturing takes a long time and this is detrimental to the efficiency of maintaining and evolving the distribution. In short, the machines are well depreciated.

This is why our infrastructure is first getting a makeover. Better adapted to new technologies, it will allow our developers to work faster and more efficiently.

So where is this new infrastructure?

Read on

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