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Re: MX-19.3 now available!

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On 11/24/2020 01:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 11/23/2020 07:37 AM, Paul Babiak wrote:
>> On 11/15/2020 08:26 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>>> Updated iso images, and being based on AHS, also has the 5.8 kernel
>>> and updated firmware and mesa packages. As usual, this release
>>> includes the latest updates from debian 10.6 (buster) and MX repos.
>>> New and updated mx-apps since 19.2. Many mx-apps received translation
>>> updates.
>>>   https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-19-3-now-available/
>>>
>>> You can still completely remove systemd if you want by adding:
>>> # Antix
>>> deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main nosystemd nonfree
>>>
>>> And then aptitude update, aptitude remove systemd.
>>>
>>> Now if you want you can install the latest antix kernel and headers
>>> and be assured the only way into or out of your computer is thru the
>>> front door.
>>>
>>> Just thought I would mention it.
>>
>> Thanks Jimmy. It was a breeze to install and make the recommended changes.
>>
>> I did try your other suggestion of installing MX's KDE on the antix
>> core, but even after a fair amount of work, I ended up with a pretty
>> broken system. This new one works well.
> 
> You know, I keep forgetting the name of the missing package and that's after I 
> found it a few times. It's the package that gives root file manager, but without 
> it you can still make changes, and you need to change to chroot-rescue-mx. And 
> the missing package is:'mx-pkexec', that's in the antix to kde5 change.
> 
> So, yes moving from mx-linux to antix is easier, I forgot to mention doing a 
> aptitude dist-upgrade to complete the systemd removal and installing the latest 
> antix kernel, I really do like his kernel, makes a nice system.

I had a look around in synaptic for any remnants of systemd, and I found that 
systemd-shim was still installed. I removed it - so far no issues.....

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MX-19.3 now available! Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2020-11-15 05:26 -0800
  Re: MX-19.3 now available! Paul Babiak <noway@uwish.com> - 2020-11-23 10:37 -0500
    Re: MX-19.3 now available! Jimmy Johnson <jimmy@none.none> - 2020-11-23 22:09 -0800
      Re: MX-19.3 now available! Paul Babiak <noway@uwish.com> - 2020-11-26 22:46 -0500
        Re: MX-19.3 now available! Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2020-11-27 10:14 -0800
          Re: MX-19.3 now available! Paul Babiak <noway@uwish.com> - 2020-11-27 17:36 -0500
            Re: MX-19.3 now available! Jimmy Johnson <jimmy@none.none> - 2020-12-06 22:05 -0800
              Re: MX-19.3 now available! Paul Babiak <noway@uwish.com> - 2020-12-13 16:43 -0500
                Re: MX-19.3 now available! Jimmy Johnson <jimmy@none.none> - 2020-12-16 09:12 -0800

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