Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's

[agnivo007]

I might have removed stuff that tango icons were linked to, however faenza had no links as I remember and removing it shaved off 80MB.

Overall, nice build. Thanks.

[agnivo007]

Okay, might be unrelated, but need some help.

What is the plymouth theme that is used when live iso boots? Cyan and yellow color scheme, text based info along with progressing dots?
Can anyone point me to the download or the theme name or even a zip file of the theme folder please?

[asqwerth]

That's not plymouth at all. It's something in-house.

[agnivo007]

Care to share if that can be had instead of naked boot by default given it's not plymouth theme?

[asqwerth]

You'll have to wait for dolphin, anticapitalista, mybe fehlix or bitjam to come online to explain.

It's called tsplash and meant only for the live system. As I understand it, the live system does not use grub to boot up so if one wanted something other than the normal scrolling text during boot, we couldn't use plymouth. I have no idea if the converse is possible, ie using tsplash when booting with grub.

First introduced in MX19.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-19-patito-feo-released/

[agnivo007]

Thanks asquerth, looking forward for more dev. explanations. (for understanding and learning)

In the meantime, I found a good collection of small plymouth themes with lots of OEM logos.
Here: https://github.com/gevera/plymouth_themes

Looks like a great match for underpowered hardware. Installed the HP logo one, looks good so far on the HP Thin Client T610!

[dolphin_oracle]

Right now the live text boot splash is only on the live system.

[tony37]

As I understand it, the live system does not use grub to boot up so if one wanted something other than the normal scrolling text during boot, we couldn't use plymouth.

I think the live system has its own grub. If you open the .iso with an archive tool, it's in /boot/grub

[dolphin_oracle]

the live system uses syslinux for legacy booting and grub for UEFI booting.

we do not include plymouth in the live initrd, preferring to keep the live initrd as close as possible to antiX.

[Justinian]

I got MX-19.2_flux_base_386 as a replacement for MX-19.2_August_386 on a Pentium M laptop with no hard drive. This time I was able to create a fully live USB system instead of read-only via dd in Maker. Tested first on a Core2 Duo and then brought to the laptop where Flux went up in just a minute and a half. Was impressed with how fast Firefox 81 launched. After adding SMPlayer this stick will be the perfect system for the laptop.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-11-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: quiet splasht nosplash 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19.2_flux_base_386 patito feo Sept 28  2020 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
           model: ARIMA S62044L type: Unknown serial: <filter> status: Charging 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
           family: 6 model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 1196 
           Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 600 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV410/M26 [Mobility Radeon X700] vendor: Rioworks driver: radeon 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:5653 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV410 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 28.90 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (4.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.90 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 774.0 MiB used: 27.6 MiB (3.6%) fs: overlay 
           source: ERR-102 
Info:      Processes: 148 Uptime: 2m Memory: 1000.2 MiB used: 260.6 MiB (26.1%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36