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Today is the day ! 18 years ago I joined this forum as a new Mepis user. :happy:

Check the date in the post.
I want to say thank you to this wonderful community for putting MX together, solving problems, and generally being cheerful while supporting us users.
Thanks to the hard working developers ...

Thanks Steveo. I thought that was you maintaining and packaging this.
As usual this puts MX Linux as living up to the "BEST" as the benchmark.

Here is the announcement for 17.1 on lichess

https://lichess.org/@/stockfishnews/blo ... y/POlhf9l0

A brief report on this testing package.

Thanks to the team (Stevo?) for packaging this up for us at MX that play chess.
stockfish is the strongest chess engine in the world right now, and we have free access to the latest version with a few clicks ! (nearly, I think 17.1 is out).

The new ...

d_o,, thanks, even that -a did not work. But I took full advantage of my bullet proof machine. Over night I downloaded the 23.5 iso, and today I installed.

It was a 7 minute installation, then I spent another 15 minutes or so running the MX tools (nvidia installer, uip), my list of 12 things to ...

d_o,

OK I tried the
but got an So, no progress so far.
Why would my
var/cache/apt/archives/

be too full, and why should this reconfigure be taking so many MB?

I have my daily work station, MX-23, had uptime >40 days, needed to reset some things, so I was going to reboot. Without thinking too much, I thought, why not do a synaptic upgrade, get all the latest goodies.
I did that, and rebooted to the black screen with the cursor.

So, today, I went to the ...

artytux,

Yes, that is the log.
/var/log/trim.log

And mine is working wonderfully. The last trim was yesterday.

*** Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:59:08 -0500 ***
/home: 81.8 GiB (87858819072 bytes) trimmed on /dev/nvme0n1p3
/media/Data: 307.4 GiB (330021101568 bytes) trimmed on /dev/sda1
/: 3.2 GiB ...

You said it brother ! For linux ext4 is true and tested.
Agree with all your comments. MX just takes care of that fstrim, there is a log. [hmmm, haven't checked mine lately?]
Even with unexpected power failures, the fs seems to recover with no errors.

kc1di
Re: Switching drive from NTFS to ext4 ...

debianix,

It is a partition scheme used by Warren Woodford, Mepis developer, antecedent of MX/antiX. [see my signature for some partition details]

I like the idea of a separate home partition, if you really screw up, and fill the partition completely, the system will still run, you can log in as ...

carlchen wrote

The most important detail is: the Debian CUPS patches are being distributed by the MX Updater by now.
Received them on my MX 21.3 only a few minutes ago.

Thanks to the dev and packaging team, and up stream at Debian.

Thanks for the swift action.