AVL-MXE 2021 Bullseye/MX 21 Roadmap

[AVLinux]

Hi MX'ers and AVL-MX'ers

Just posting on the progress and Roadmap for AVL-MXE Bullseye/MX 21... I've had a rare indoor afternoon to get organized so I thought I would share whats happening with AVL-MXE development... Still probably a month or more away from building ISO's and of course will keep out of the way until MX 21 is complete and released. My AVL-MXE Bullseye test machine is performing very well and there are some new features coming..

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New features:

-> A sad but necessary goodbye to the 32bit version, almost no new Audio software Developers provide 32 bit binaries or test on 32bit Systems.
-> New Liquorix default Kernels, serious Kernel security exploits are far too commonplace for part time people (like myself and Trulan) to be maintaining ISO default Kernels any more.
-> RT Kernels will now be optionally available from the AV Linux Kernel Repo.
-> Complete new modularized AVL-MXE Assistant!
-> More detail attention paid to Openbox and also detail updates and enhancements to the default Diehard theme.
-> Thunar-based Deb installation and improvements to AV Custom Actions
-> Move to Yabridge for Windows VST Plugin hosting and a built-in graphical utility to manage Yabridge
-> Saner defaults for dual-head systems
-> Updates and expansion of the AVL-MXE User Manual
-> Stripping out of KDE Apps, LibreOffice and a handful of peripheral applications.. An Audio/Video focused Live media doesn't need a full office suite..
-> Updates to all of the major DAWs and Plugin Demos

More updates to come as I have time to work on them. Sincere thanks as always to the MX Devs and Packagers for the tireless work on MX-21!!

[SwampRabbit]

Exciting!

[Adrian]

Let us know if you want to use build-iso script to build AVLinux... it might be a bit more flexible and clean than remastering (if that's what you do right now).

[AVLinux]

Let us know if you want to use build-iso script to build AVLinux... it might be a bit more flexible and clean than remastering (if that's what you do right now).

Hmmm, that sounds interesting! I will reach out via PM when I'm getting close to building some testing ISO's, thanks very much for the kind offer!

[afiadi]

Is this av linux MX Edition with pipewire version? or can pulseaudio replace with pipewire in the new versi of AVL -MXE 2021?

Thanks in Advanced

[AVLinux]

Is this av linux MX Edition with pipewire version? or can pulseaudio replace with pipewire in the new versi of AVL -MXE 2021?

Thanks in Advanced

Hi,

My feeling is that Pipewire is still a future thing and not yet mature enough to make the default sound server. AVL-MXE has a very good setup with JACK and PulseAudio bridges that pretty much can route any Audio from anywhere you want to the selected Sound Device. I don't think Pipewire in Debian Bullseye is quite there (yet). My guess would be that future AVL-MXE releases after Bullseye with likely have Pipewire by default.

[pablogvieira]

This is really exciting. Thank you so much, GMaq. Looking forward to it!

As far as pipewire is concerned, I've been playing around with it in Manjaro and although it's an amazing tool, it still lacks polish, and most important, it lacks management tools which are still in development (eg. Helvum patchbay and tools for setting buffer size and sample rate). So I think you made the right choice in sticking with jack and pulseaudio in AVL-MXE-Bullseye, it's a stable and safe choice for professional use.

I appreciate the adoption of yabridge, it's an amazing tool, and the development of yabridge-UI.

[pablogvieira]

Oh, one more thing, AVL-Diehard themes and DarK icon theme will no longer be used? (I must admit I don't really like them and I would like to be able to use more "vanilla" themes like Papirus and mx-comfort without losing system icons and other stuff). What about QT apps? Any chance of using Kvantum over qt5-ct?

[AVLinux]

Hi, thanks!

Uhm Dark Icons...no, XFCE4 4.16 kinda broke them and forces their own XFCE4 Icons whether you want them or not so yes Papirus will be default and more 'generic' system Icons will be pointed to by the AVL-MXE Applications.. But Diehard will still be the default theming with some nice new color matched Papirus folders so that sucks for you lol!

But seriously changing themes should be more seamless this time around... lesson learned! To be honest I don't fully understand the relationships between QT, KDE and Kvantum and I am hoping for simplicity and ISO space to eliminate KDE libs entirely.. Obviously many people will end up installing KDE applications and that is their prerogative but if Kvantum needs a bunch of KDE stuff I will stay with qt5ct because I understand it and it works predictably.

[pablogvieira]

Thank you so much for your answer and for all the good work. Looking forward for AVL-MXE 2021 Bullseye/MX21.