AV Linux MX Edition 23.1 progress

[AVLinux]

Hi AVL'ers and MX'ers!

Screenshot from Live ISO boot:

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It's been a busy couple of weeks and the past few days have closed the gap considerably on getting the next AV Linux MX Edition ISO out the door (based on Bookworm/MX-23). Things were almost ready to deploy and the release of PipeWire 1.0.0 forced me to to do a rethink about PipeWire and with some help from @dolphin_oracle I've managed to get a pretty good live PipeWire setup going, a last crucial piece will be to have PipeWire 1.0.0 on the Live ISO (right now the testing phase has been the default Debian 0.3.65 version) and that is in the works and so far testing with installing PipeWire 1.0.0 from MX-Test (installed afterward) it's looking very promising! Big shoutouts go to @Stevo and @timkb4cq for getting a lot of great AV updates into the MX Repos and also @Melber for taking my sharp-sticks-and-flint PipeWire metadata tool and making it both look good and function well!

A LOT has changed!

- Enlightenment + Thunar + many new handy custom actions.
- Custom Actions also for Enlightenment File Manager!
- An uncharacteristic light and modern palette for Enlightenment (with classic dark skeumorphic options!)
- 4K ready (I've been testing in 4K and Enlightenment looks great and scales very well (unlike XFCE4...)
- Liquorix 6.6.3 Kernel
- PipeWire JACK all set up by default, cold boot, start Reaper/Ardour/Mixbus with 'JACK' backend and get to work!
- A suite of handy PipeWire tools (including qpwgraph) to ease the transition from JACK..
- Additions of Openshot and all the major DAW's and NLE's have been updated + loads and loads of fresh Plugins..
- Added Tonetwist, SocalLabs WaveTable, ChowDSP, Vaporizer2... maybe more (I'm losing track..)...?
- As usual yabridge and Wine-Staging all ready to host your Windows VST Plugins
- We lose WineASIO, it is broken upstream with Wine 8.2+ and I'm done chasing it..
- Fully functional and supported Ardour 8.1 version from ardour.org and Demo versions of Reaper 7 and Harrison Mixbus 9.2
- Lots of hidden Easter Eggs!

TODO, The switch to Enlightenment and PipeWire has made my established User Manual pretty obsolete, I'm considering a Video User Manual but whether it Text or Video the documentation will be a killer..

Beta1 Test ISO's hopefully coming soon, too soon to tell if we'll get this baby under the Christmas Tree this year or not...

Comments and Questions welcomed, aside from PipeWire upgraded to 1.0.0 to be clear I consider this point of development to be frozen, the changes and improvements so far have been hard fought and I need to move my focus toward documentation...

Best, Glen

[Bluetree]

Looks great, can't wait to try it.

[Bluetree]

Looks great, can't wait to try it.

[Aceediq]

yay...I am so happy pipewire got in...why? I use appimages for most of my applications, so most of the time updates are not necessary for me as everything is working...

so now pipewire got in, I can freeze updates on my system (unless there is a critical audio bug, which I doubt because of the spartan testing @AVLinux puts them through) for a long time till the next AVL MXE iso release (which is becoming less often)

[Aceediq]

what necessitated the addition of openshot?

also @AVLinux @Stevo is there any linux firewall gui program as simple and easy to use as simplewall?

[AVLinux]

what necessitated the addition of openshot?

also @AVLinux @Stevo is there any linux firewall gui program as simple and easy to use as simplewall?

Don't know much about firewalls, I ship gufw because that seems to be the MX default.. Some people who aren't experienced with Video editing like Openshot, it is simpler to get started with than Kdenlive and Cinelerra-GG. I prefer Cinelerra-GG myself and have used it for many years but AVL is geared to all types of Users. As always the Package Manager can remove anything you don't use..

[FullScale4Me]

what necessitated the addition of openshot?

also @AVLinux @Stevo is there any linux firewall gui program as simple and easy to use as simplewall?

Don't know much about firewalls, I ship gufw because that seems to be the MX default.. Some people who aren't experienced with Video editing like Openshot, it is simpler to get started with than Kdenlive and Cinelerra-GG. I prefer Cinelerra-GG myself and have used it for many years but AVL is geared to all types of Users. As always the Package Manager can remove anything you don't use..

The MX Linux firewall gui program - summary.

4.5.1 Uncomplicated Firewall configuration

The "Firewall Configuration" is a GUI app used for the configuration of the "Uncomplicated Firewall",
aka UFW. This makes it a simple task for novice users to configure their firewall. This GUI app
(gufw) is installed by default in Xfce and Fluxbox only. KDE users can search in MXPI for the
package named ‘gufw’ to get the same "Firewall Configuration" app.

[Boone777]

Good news ! I'm surprised Pipewire made it.

It will be appreciated in some situations ! Tx in advance.

[tizianomattei]

That's great news Glen! Can't wait to install it ^_^

[Be OK]

Glen if you need a beta tester, to use on my troublesome laptop ,i stand ready to install:) other versions true live usb . greetings jan