MX-18 beta 1 feedback

[Gordon Cooper]

I see comments about MX-18 Beta, but where is it ? Is there a release note somewhere ?

[Richard]

In the other thread about MX-18 beta 1
viewtopic.php?f=131&t=47190

[Gordon Cooper]

Thanks Richard. Found it down the list.

[freefreeno]

Will we be able to go from testing version to regular when time comes??

[Eadwine Rose]

Works fine for me: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... ting/MX18/

Here is the link to the download area.

[dolphin_oracle]

Will we be able to go from testing version to regular when time comes??

its not officially supported from beta just because there is always the potential for some major change somewhere, but for the most part yes once we migrate our dev repo to main. but the beta will always report itself as a beta in "inxi" output.

[richb]

(Trivial)

Using the Package Installer to add 'HP Printing' adds an entry to Settings, but it has no icon. This was the same in MX-17.

Chris

Confirmed.

[danielson]

Snapiest MX yet!
Installation went under 7 minutes for sure!

Sleep mode isn't working for me.
Have to do hard shutdown and reboot.

$ inxi -F
System: Host: Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 8460p v: A0001D02
serial: <root required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 161C v: KBC Version 97.4E serial: <root required>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68SCF Ver. F.65 date: 04/06/2017
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.3 Wh condition: 39.6/39.6 Wh (100%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz, 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-1-amd64 LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Logitech Headset H390 type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: e4:11:5b:26:66:28
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: ea:f2:00:39:f7:c4
Device-3: ASIX AX88772B type: USB driver: asix
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:50:b6:23:18:cc
Drives: Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 9.14 GiB (4.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS1311 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 53.15 GiB used: 9.14 GiB (17.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 44 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 193 Uptime: 7m Memory: 15.62 GiB used: 1.14 GiB (7.3%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.25

[Stevo]

first run, tried to install Mate from the MX Package Installer

unmet dependencies:
mate-core: Depends: mate-desktop-environment-core ........

This is because the development repo that contains the newer libglib2.0-bin than mate-control-center requires was disabled on this beta. You will be able to install MATE when we move the dev repo stuff to main.

[sdibaja]

first run, tried to install Mate from the MX Package Installer

unmet dependencies:
mate-core: Depends: mate-desktop-environment-core ........

This is because the development repo that contains the newer libglib2.0-bin than mate-control-center requires was disabled on this beta. You will be able to install MATE when we move the dev repo stuff to main.

Ok, thanks