MXFB Raspberry Final

[chrispop99]

I've got to try this some time. It runs so well on a 32GB microSD that I am not tempted yet, but the day will come.

My main motivation was reliability. A couple of my machines are on 24/7, and even good quality microSD cards eventually corrupt. There is a performance increase, but it's not night and day.

I have an NVMe drive in a USB 3 enclosure that i have tried with the Pi. It's not significantly faster that an SSD due to the USB bottleneck. It does use slightly less power, but the real benefit if you are doing a lot of testing is that you can write an image to it from a PC in less than one minute.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

We cleared 4,000 downloads (patch + image) last night--not too bad for such a quirky and small project.

[HackerKitty]

>>We cleared 4,000 downloads (patch + image) last night


Congrats for another record breaking!

Our Word-press server is running absolutely rock solid and I am very happy to make a good choice for using MXFB as the base OS

[dolphin_oracle]

We cleared 4,000 downloads (patch + image) last night--not too bad for such a quirky and small project.

that's pretty terrific!

[Jerry3904]

Passing 5,000 this morning. Average dropping off so mostly done.

That number includes almost 800 patch downloads, and I wonder if some (many?) of those are just mistakes. But still...respin was worth the effort.

[chrispop99]

Absolutely worth it, and a very interesting project from my point of view.

Chris

[AVLinux]

Wow! Congrats!

[pianokeyjoe]

I am still in disbelief about this miracle! Sorry I am chiming in very late lol! So MX LINUX now exists as a Raspberry Pi installation image?? Is this what I am reading here? So is this image a full MX Linux distro like the Intel/AMD version but for the ARM CPU/Raspberry Pi boards??.. Oh so many questions, so little time lol!

So what is the BEST Raspberry Pi board I need to buy that will still be economical, hence the Raspberry Pi's primary existence being it was economical both in cost and power usage?

After DD imaging the MX LINUX ARM version to an SD card or other drive for the Raspberry pi, would I be able to remove packages I do not need, install ones I do want and need and then reimage a new image based on my installation at that time, to then reinstall on my pi or other pi machines at will?(MX-SNAPSHOT??). Or is that still only relegated to the PC platform for now?

These are the most important questions I can think of at the moment that beg an answer. I really do not want to use vanilla Debian Raspian or some other OS on a Pi board when I can finally use the only OS I really love.. soooo.. Any help please?

[Jerry3904]

Start with the Blog posts:

https://mxlinux.org/blog/fluxbox-raspbe ... gout-beta/
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-fluxbox-ras ... now-final/

You will have to decide for yourself what the BEST board is, but the RPi 400 is very convenient, cool and fast. I also use the RPi 4B with 8GB for projects.

You can't use Snapshot, but you can save your changes as an image using RPi SD Card Copier. There are other ways to do it as well.

[pianokeyjoe]

Start with the Blog posts:

https://mxlinux.org/blog/fluxbox-raspbe ... gout-beta/
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-fluxbox-ras ... now-final/

You will have to decide for yourself what the BEST board is, but the RPi 400 is very convenient, cool and fast. I also use the RPi 4B with 8GB for projects.

You can't use Snapshot, but you can save your changes as an image using RPi SD Card Copier. There are other ways to do it as well.

Thankyou Jerry3904! I just finished extracting the image on my PC and shows it is 6.2GB. So I have the sd card handy and will DD the image to it. I was wanting to buy a pi for mp3 and video files, jpeg files and text files. Basically a media player. I will read the blogs now. Thanks again!!