AVL-MXE 2021 Bullseye/MX 21 Roadmap

[SwampRabbit]

@alextone we can follow up outside of this thread later after MX-21 stuff has settle down a bit.

[alextone]

Ok.

[AVLinux]

@alextone @SwampRabbit

First of all thanks so much again SwampRabbit on behalf of myself and all MX Users wanting to do multimedia work, I wish the nature of my work and time for AVL was more linear or I would jump into the packaging but I am often unable to devote much more than a quick forum check over lunch between really productive periods of working on the ISO so having somebody like Alex who used the system and has first hand experience with the applications would be a huge asset for sure!

[SwampRabbit]

@AVLinux you're too kind sir.

I'll follow up with Alex once things with MX-21 settle in.

[AVLinux]

A little update...

I have been working with the last release of AVL-MXE 2021 (based on MX-19.4) manually upgraded to Bullseye and that was the direction I was headed for the next release but after observing the amazing process of how the MX devs curated and improved the new MX-21 Wildflower release and seeing how many internal things have changed within Debian from Buster to Bullseye I think it would be best for me to take and build on a pristine MX-21 base, I also think this will be a better step for many other reasons too. Over time as AVL-MXE becomes closer to MX it also shrinks the potential variables between the two so getting help for Users should be more streamlined because MX and AVL-MXE will have more and more in common as time goes on.

Ideally it would be best for me to start with an MX-21 minimal install as @m_pav created for MX-19, these are not available yet but hopefully they will be at some point in the near future. In the meantime I will be working on finishing and Packaging the various AV Linux Themes, Utilities and supplemental specialty bits and pieces so they can simply be dropped in and installed smoothly into the new MX-21 base and I am considering documenting everything I've done so if existing MX User's want to convert an existing install into an AVL influenced one then they can simply follow a guide.

Another option to explore is the developer build scripts which may be the best long term solution but I need to dig deep on time and erase a lot of bad habits first...

Lastly @SwampRabbit has provided a batch of multimedia testing packages to be included into the Stable MX-21 Repos... I've been busy offline and fallen behind on testing them but I will make sure to complete that this weekend, once tested and into the MX-21 Repos they will be there for all MX Users to enjoy!

[SwampRabbit]

@AVLinux there are updated versions of some of those packages, but I'm holding off on them for the mean time, take your time testing though as these newer app releases need time to settle anyway.

[AVLinux]

Some big strides made this week!

A progress report of sorts:
https://youtu.be/cg9tiKFsrBo

[AVLinux]

A welcome splash thingie... Lots of tuning to do yet.

Do not take names and dates seriously at all... all up in the air right now.

I was going to base it on mx-welcome (I still might) but I have zero QT programming experience and mx-welcome has a lot of cool stuff I don't need at this point so back to YAD I went..

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I do think I will align with the MX versions and naming schemes instead of year and date...so

"AV Linux MX-21 Edition" instead of "AVL-MXE-2021.11.15" or whatever. I'm really aiming for this next release to be much more integrated with MX with less external moving parts.

[pablogvieira]

This is all so exciting. Thank you so much, Glen!