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Re: MX Linux

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: MX Linux
Date 2026-06-14 06:16 +0000
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On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:10:30 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>   Agree about the slow mirrors. It's not you, it's them.

I finally found 

https://rsync-mxlinux.org/mirmon/index.html

rsync-mxlinux.org took about an hour.  The home page send you off to 
SourceForge and that's useless. Supposedly you can select mirrors but when 
the ftp widget showed 3 days I canceled.


>    Note there's the 'regular' ISO and a "AHD", advanced hardware distro,
>    option. Can't go wrong with the AHD. Had to use it on one little box
>    with a rather new Intel chip set when BullsEye first came out.

I saw that but I don't have any advanced hardware. The VM is on a box with 
a Haswell gen processor. (4th Gen, 2013)

>    Remember 'Mephis' - it was nice. Still fool with Antix, tight and
>    solid. MX combined the best of both - a rare case of where the
>    synthesis was greater than the parts.

antiX is okay but IceWM isn't exactly state of the art. 

>    I use XFCE ... but usually also load LXDE. You may pref KDE or
>    something even odder. It's there. Note 'autostart' is different in
>    XFCE and LXDE.

Xfce works. I don't know how much tweaking MX does but it's better looking 
than I usually think of Xfce as. The Debian Bullseye version was sort of 
plain but I never did any configuration.

I had Lubuntu on the netbook before playing with Mint. LXQt was okay. LXDE 
is semi-dead. Anyway it's a contender for replacing Ubuntu as it chases 
AI.

The Firefox on MX is newer than the Ubuntu one and when I did a search it 
said 'thinking...'  That doesn't bode well. 

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MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 01:07 +0000
  Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 00:10 -0400
    Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 06:16 +0000
      Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 03:19 -0400
        Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 18:11 +0000
          Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 23:00 -0400
    Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-14 10:33 +0100
      Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 18:20 +0000
        Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-14 19:45 +0100
          Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 23:49 +0000
            Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-15 01:41 -0400
          Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-15 01:34 -0400
            Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-15 07:23 +0100
              Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-15 07:02 +0000
                Re: MX Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-15 12:36 +0100
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 03:39 -0400
                Re: MX Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-16 11:52 +0100
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 22:05 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-17 02:59 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 23:55 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-17 07:00 +0000
                Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-17 08:14 +0100
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-18 04:10 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-18 19:26 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-18 03:20 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-18 18:45 +0000
                Re: MX Linux John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 15:50 -0700
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-18 04:53 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-16 17:52 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 23:19 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-17 07:07 +0000
                Re: MX Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-17 11:06 +0100
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-18 04:02 -0400
                Re: MX Linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-18 18:26 +0000
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-18 19:23 +0000
              Re: MX Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-15 08:01 +0000
            Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-15 07:00 +0000
        Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 23:05 -0400
      Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 22:32 -0400
        Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-15 07:21 +0100
          Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-15 02:50 -0400
            Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-15 13:19 +0100
          Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-15 06:52 +0000
            Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 03:37 -0400
              Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-16 17:00 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-16 22:40 -0400
          Re: MX Linux Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam2616@zugschl.us> - 2026-06-15 13:09 +0200
    Re: MX Linux 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-06-14 11:50 +0200
      Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 18:16 +0000
        Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 23:04 -0400
          Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-15 06:56 +0000
      Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-14 22:35 -0400

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