Re: MX Linux

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: MX Linux
Date	2026-06-21 12:34 +0200
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On 2026-06-21 07:06, c186282 wrote:
> On 6/20/26 04:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2026-06-20 09:41, c186282 wrote:
>>> On 6/19/26 12:56, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:50:00 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     Gave it all a rest today, after being up to 5AM before. Still 
>>>>> have to
>>>>>     deal with the VBox 'extension pack', which is less friendly these
>>>>>     days. Simplest case I'll just link it to my little "NAS" so 
>>>>> files can
>>>>>     be shared. Using the 'bridged adapter' setting it IS on my local
>>>>>     network.
>>>>
>>>> I tried installing VirtualBox on Leap 16. Not at all friendly.
>>>
>>>    VBox is NOT as easy/general as it used to be alas.
>>>
>>>    Sure you can $$$$$$Pay$$$$$$ for VM-Ware ....
>>>
>>>    Seems Oracle has kind of lost interest in VBox.
>>>    Some distros it will work, some it won't. No
>>>    good online solutions. Roll the dice.
>>>
>>>    On my current MX it works pretty well - except
>>>    the 'extension pack' stuff can be quirky, or
>>>    just unusable. Anyway, it's good enough so I
>>>    can eval new distros.
>>>
>>>    TRIED it on Leap, and Fedora, far more problems.
>>>
>>>    See the ARCH "AUR" distros were full of malware.
>>>    Arch is kinda FLUSHING those - too big a problem
>>>    to fix, so Start Over. Have ONE Arch deriv as
>>>    a VM ... do I try to FIX it, or just FLUSH it ???
>>>
>>>    DO remember when evil people managed to infiltrate
>>>    a MINT distro ... they didn't catch it right away.
>>>    A bud of mine at the office had just spent good
>>>    time installing MINT ... and was REALLY pissed when
>>>    I told him he'd have to flush it.
>>>
>>>    We usually look for hacks finding tiny flaws in
>>>    existing software - but the BEST hack is to get
>>>    into the base distro/repos themselves.
>>
>> But they did not get into the base distro/repos, just into the 
>> community side, where a single person publishes his playground. 
>> Unverified.
> 
> 
>    YET that's where a LOT of the cool software is - so
>    everybody WILL/MUST use 'AUR'.
> 
>    Look, if it's easily accessible by your distro, and
>    esp if it's Cool Stuff, then the distro people MUST
>    police that. Modern, nasty, world.

In openSUSE, they refuse, and insist on people not installing from the 
"home" repos.

> 
>    Linux has/had a rep for being solid. That was one of
>    the reasons many adopted it. If that perception is
>    now all WRONG then .......
> 
> 
>>>    Linux USED to be "safe" and "beyond notice". NOT
>>>    so anymore. Shit, 90 plus % of the firmware in the
>>>    world is Linux. The evil people have TAKEN NOTICE.
>>>
>>>    OK, big loss, just FLUSHED the Arch-based VM. SHIT !
>>>
> 
>    Anyway, my long effort installing Endeavour is just GONE
>    now - FLUSH ! Don't know what bits of it to trust for
>    anything. WAY too old to spend six weeks in Intensive
>    Research/Testing. Am I supposed to use ghex to probe
>    every byte ???
> 
>    Made a VDI of it ... but as soon as I want the disk space
>    back then it is FLUSH too. I'll check back when/if they
>    claim to have addressed The Problems.
> 


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

Thread

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 c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-19 02:50 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-19 16:56 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-20 03:41 -0400
                Re: MX Linux "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-06-20 10:19 +0200
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-21 01:06 -0400
                Re: MX Linux "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-06-21 12:34 +0200
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-20 17:36 +0000
                Re: MX Linux "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-06-20 20:01 +0200
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-21 03:19 +0000
                Re: MX Linux "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-06-21 12:29 +0200
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-21 02:34 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-21 06:44 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-21 03:35 -0400
                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 c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-19 02:37 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-18 19:23 +0000
                Re: MX Linux Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-19 04:46 +0100
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-19 05:55 +0000
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-19 02:56 -0400
                Re: MX Linux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-06-19 02:59 -0400
                Re: MX Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-19 17:00 +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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