MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[dolphin_oracle]

announcement blog post here: https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-21-beta-1-n ... -purposes/

Remember to post any error messages and appropriate log files (see blog post) when posting issues.

Thanks!!!!!

[entropyfoe]

Yea! , the beta is here.
And MX 21 is solidly based on a LTS kernel. A good omen for long term stability and life.

I will DL and test tonight !
Thanks to the whole dev team.

[Gaer Boy]

A very quick look at a live boot. Seems quicker than MX-19. Two small items:

It's not obvious how to select en-gb at the login screen - you have to click en-us for the sub-menu.
The first thing I do is mount my 6 data partitions and add to fstab. Disk Manager seems to be missing, so it's a bit more long-winded.

I'll look in more detail tomorrow - I've had my screen time today.

One little quirk - booting back into MX-19, I had a glimpse of the wildflower wallpaper - presumably in video memory somewhere.

[dolphin_oracle]

A very quick look at a live boot. Seems quicker than MX-19. Two small items:

It's not obvious how to select en-gb at the login screen - you have to click en-us for the sub-menu.
The first thing I do is mount my 6 data partitions and add to fstab. Disk Manager seems to be missing, so it's a bit more long-winded.

I'll look in more detail tomorrow - I've had my screen time today.

One little quirk - booting back into MX-19, I had a glimpse of the wildflower wallpaper - presumably in video memory somewhere.

disk manager is no longer maintained as its python2. you might try gnome-disks for a gui that can edit fstab.

[fehlix]

A very quick look at a live boot. Seems quicker than MX-19. Two small items:

It's not obvious how to select en-gb at the login screen - you have to click en-us for the sub-menu.

In the main menu:

live-grub-main.png

after selecting Language-Keyboad-Timezone:

lkt.png

it shows the live-system pre-selected default settings, which are the one if you do not chose another one of those defaults and boot straight from the first menu entry. Submenus for languages are for those where multiple regional languages like French, Spanish, German or English:

en_RR.png

are available to select from.

[Gaer Boy]

Thanks, @fehlix, I found it quickly enough but it's counter-intuitive on the second screen to click lang=en_us to get to a screen to set lang=en_GB.

[oops]

As a fast test into a VM.
MX21 beta look nice (the nice WildFlowers)
Nice to have the Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits too.

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root@mx1:/home/demo# inxi -zv8
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: lang=fr_FR quiet splasht nosplash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_beta1_x64 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A 
           Chassis: Oracle Corporation type: 1 serial: N/A 
           Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox 
           date: 12/01/2006 
Memory:    RAM: total: 2.92 GiB used: 1.20 GiB (41.2%) 
           RAM Report: message: No RAM data was found. 
PCI Slots: Message: No PCI slot data found. 
CPU:       Topology: Triple Core model: Intel Core i5-2320 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: N/A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           bogomips: 17958 
           Speed: 2993 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2993 2: 2993 3: 2993 
           Flags: aes apic avx clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht 
           hypervisor lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
           pclmulqdq pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
           ssse3 syscall tsc tsc_known_freq vme x2apic xsave xtopology 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.18.0.0 bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 15ad:0405 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: vmware unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 967x699~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:05.0 chip ID: 8086:2415 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: kernel port: d020 
           bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:100e 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
           IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
           Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: piix4_smbus 
           v: N/A port: d200 bus ID: 00:07.0 chip ID: 8086:7113 
           WAN IP: No WAN IP data found. Connected to the web? SSL issues? 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: N/A used: 507.1 MiB 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: VBOX model: CD-ROM rev: 1.0  dev-links: cdrom,dvd 
           Features: speed: 32 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none state: running 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 2.29 GiB used: 507.1 MiB (21.6%) fs: overlay 
           source: ERR-102 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID-2: /live/linux raw size: 1.63 GiB size: N/A (hidden?) used: N/A (hidden?) 
           fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop0 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
           Device-1: 1-1:2 info: VirtualBox USB Tablet type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 80ee:0021 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
Sensors:   Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 
           1: cpu: 24.4% command: firefox pid: 28944 mem: 387.9 MiB (12.9%) 
           2: cpu: 4.6% command: firefox-bin pid: 29310 mem: 124.2 MiB (4.1%) 
           3: cpu: 4.4% command: xorg pid: 3117 mem: 93.8 MiB (3.1%) 
           4: cpu: 3.3% command: synaptic pid: 4649 mem: 173.4 MiB (5.8%) 
           5: cpu: 1.6% command: firefox-bin pid: 29257 mem: 124.8 MiB (4.1%) 
           Memory top: 5 
           1: mem: 387.9 MiB (12.9%) command: firefox pid: 28944 cpu: 24.4% 
           2: mem: 173.4 MiB (5.8%) command: synaptic pid: 4649 cpu: 3.3% 
           3: mem: 129.4 MiB (4.3%) command: firefox-bin pid: 29172 cpu: 0.9% 
           4: mem: 124.8 MiB (4.1%) command: firefox-bin pid: 29257 cpu: 1.6% 
           5: mem: 124.2 MiB (4.1%) command: firefox-bin pid: 29310 cpu: 4.6% 
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 14m Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: bash (su) v: 5.1.4 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.36 
root@mx1:/home/demo# 

... But neofetch say Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 instead MX21

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neofetch
root@mx1:/home/demo# neofetch --off
demo@mx1 
-------- 
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 
Host: VirtualBox 1.2 
Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 
Uptime: 16 mins 
Packages: 1967 (dpkg) 
Shell: bash 5.1.4 
Resolution: 967x699 
DE: Xfce 4.16 
WM: Xfwm4 
Theme: Adwaita [GTK3] 
Icons: Adwaita [GTK3] 
Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
Terminal Font: Liberation Mono 11 
CPU: Intel i5-2320 (3) @ 2.993GHz 
GPU: 00:02.0 VMware SVGA II Adapter 
Memory: 1665MiB / 2987MiB 

PS: I liked disk-manager too into MX19 (more than gnome-disk)

[fehlix]

... But neofetch say Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 instead MX21

Would this help :

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sudo sed -i.orig  '/type -p lsb_release/,/distro=/s:^:#:' $(which neofetch)

which gives here as text:

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neofetch
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMMM   demo@mx1 
MMMMMMMMMMNs..yMMMMMMMMMMMMMm: +NMMMMMMM   -------- 
MMMMMMMMMN+    :mMMMMMMMMMNo` -dMMMMMMMM   OS: MX 21 Wildflower x86_64 
MMMMMMMMMMMs.   `oNMMMMMMh- `sNMMMMMMMMM   Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i44 
MMMMMMMMMMMMN/    -hMMMN+  :dMMMMMMMMMMM   Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMh-    +ms. .sMMMMMMMMMMMMM   Uptime: 15 mins 
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN+`   `  +NMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   Packages: 1967 (dpkg) 
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMd:    .dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   Shell: bash 5.1.4 
MMMMMMMMMMMMm/-hMd-     `sNMMMMMMMMMMMMM   Resolution: 1366x768 
MMMMMMMMMMNo`   -` :h/    -dMMMMMMMMMMMM   DE: Xfce 4.16 
MMMMMMMMMd:       /NMMh-   `+NMMMMMMMMMM   WM: Xfwm4 
MMMMMMMNo`         :mMMN+`   `-hMMMMMMMM   WM Theme: Matcha-azul 
MMMMMMh.            `oNMMd:    `/mMMMMMM   Theme: Matcha-azul [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] 
MMMMm/                -hMd-      `sNMMMM   Icons: Papirus-mxblue [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] 
MMNs`                   -          :dMMM   Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
Mm:                                 `oMM   Terminal Font: Liberation Mono 11 
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 (4) @ 3.403GHz 
                                           GPU: 00:04.0 Red Hat, Inc. QXL paravirtual graphic card 
                                           Memory: 2306MiB / 11973MiB 

or screen dumped:

MX21-noefetch.jpg

[fehlix]

Thanks, @fehlix, I found it quickly enough but it's counter-intuitive on the second screen to click lang=en_us to get to a screen to set lang=en_GB.

Yes, and do think on all other languages, where the defaults are indicating just this.

[dolphin_oracle]

we actually had a patched neofetch under mx19. forgot about that, will add to the list.