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Hi all,

Just a blast from the past.
An advertorial I once made for Warren, back in June 2007.
How's Mepis and crew anyway?

Best, Ruud

Thanks, Ruud, fun to see! People had such hopes then...

Mepis is moribund, crew is fine.

BTW: we would love to have you work with us on the art for MX 15 (not yet in active development) if you have the time and interest.

Hi Jerry;

What is MX15 exactly, the Mepis successor or replacement?
I'm not into designing wallpapers and icons very much lately, but if you need some graphics material, I'll be glad to help. Post me a mail with your requests.

Best, Ruud

What is MX15 exactly, the Mepis successor or replacement?

http://mepiscommunity.org/mx

Thanks for the offer about graphics--we'll be back...

Hey Ruud! Nice to see you around. We are doing fine, check out MX-14 a Xfce based distro developed by antiX and Mepis communities with a lot of Mepis tools. I worked to improve Mepis installer and the rest of the tools, I fixed some bugs and added some, I think, nice features. While not an "official" successor (it can't be because Mepis was pretty much an one-man-show, and also MX is not a KDE distro) I think it's at least as good as old Mepis releases, actually better, antiX devs did an amazing job and this distro uses very little memory and flies on any machine.

The MX series (MX 14 up to 14.4) have been extremely fast and stable. It's been very easy for newcomers to Linux and very competent for anyone who's familiar with it. Lots of options. A great Meta-Package Installer and other MX tools to make a lot of things very easy. Above all it has been based on the idea of ease of use for everyone. So it's the spiritual descendant of Mepis.

Hi all;

Thanks for your replies! Good to read that it's become a speedy descendant...
Would it be light enough and be an option to eventually install on a Raspberry Pi?

Nice evening from Holland!

Regards, Ruud

Hi Ruud, very nice evening indeed, the sun finally poked through the rainy day. Good to see you popping in!

Ruud_Kuin wrote:Would it be light enough and be an option to eventually install on a Raspberry Pi?

Theoretically it could be done - but all the packages would have to recompiled for the arm processor so it's not likely anyone will actually do it instead of using the already available Raspbian.

I know now how to cross-compile one-shot armhf packages on my machine (all build-deps provided in Debian repo), and have done so, but by doing so with QEMU and pbuilder, if you have to backport something else to build the main package, (i.e. a new libcec2 for kodi) that requires setting up a local repo on your machine and some more manual configuration for pbuilder to hook onto that repo.

MX-14 runs on the Intel NUC.

Ruud_Kuin wrote: Sun May 03, 2015 4:07 am Hi all,

Just a blast from the past.
An advertorial I once made for Warren, back in June 2007.
How's Mepis and crew anyway?

Best, Ruud

Twelve years have passed, wow!

Ruud_Kuin wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:48 pm

Ruud_Kuin wrote: Sun May 03, 2015 4:07 am Hi all,

Just a blast from the past.
An advertorial I once made for Warren, back in June 2007.
How's Mepis and crew anyway?

Best, Ruud

Twelve years have passed, wow!

And the forum still considers you a Novice.

Time passes... to think I started to use MEPIS in 2004 (or late 2003)

mx-2018 wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:56 pm And the forum still considers you a Novice.

Hahaha, Well at this forum I'm still a newby, but that's okay. Mepis was the first distro I actively supported by doing what I am/was good at, graphic design.

Adrian wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:00 pm Time passes... to think I started to use MEPIS in 2004 (or late 2003)

I guess around 2005/2006 I joined you all... Been looking around ever since, testing distro's, just to find out I already was at home.

Hi Ruud!

Good to see you around again :)

Welcome back. I thought the name was familiar.

And a welcome back from team antiX!

doing what I am/was good at, graphic design

Well, we could definitely use you again, for sure. If you're interested and have time. please send a PM to asqwerth, who heads up the Art Team. This would be the perfect moment to get involved, as we are in the early stages of MX-19 development.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:52 am Hi Ruud!

Good to see you around again :)

Thanks Eadwine!
Good to see so many of the solid crew sticked to MX/antiX/Mepis!

Best regards, Ruud

richb wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:55 am Welcome back. I thought the name was familiar.

Hi Rich!
Thanks man!
Yep, me again...
Again, it's lovely to see so many did stick to this distro!

anticapitalista wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:11 am And a welcome back from team antiX!

Hi anticapitalista!

ThanX, great to see that the team of forked/split-off (?) version is working together with ex-Mepis to help create this MX cooperation!

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:20 am

doing what I am/was good at, graphic design

Well, we could definitely use you again, for sure. If you're interested and have time. please send a PM to asqwerth, who heads up the Art Team. This would be the perfect moment to get involved, as we are in the early stages of MX-19 development.

Sure, Jerry, the guy pops in just to say hello and you immediately put him to work.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:20 am

doing what I am/was good at, graphic design

Well, we could definitely use you again, for sure. If you're interested and have time. please send a PM to asqwerth, who heads up the Art Team. This would be the perfect moment to get involved, as we are in the early stages of MX-19 development.

Hi Jerry;

I remember doing this graphics together with Warren Woodford, he asked for rather new/strange (to me) file-formats for the bootscreen etc. Hope asqwerth knows what I mean, because I forgot what formats were used back in 2006
Best Regards, Ruud

I think we have a lot of that covered in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/other/art-procedures/

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:01 am I think we have a lot of that covered in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/other/art-procedures/

Pretty sure that back then there was another file-extension, but I'm okay with PNG's and JPG's...

I am going to ask asqwerth to review that

I only just clicked on this thread (sorry, but the title didn't sound very interesting....).

Welcome back!

Ruud_Kuin wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:46 am

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:20 am

doing what I am/was good at, graphic design

Well, we could definitely use you again, for sure. If you're interested and have time. please send a PM to asqwerth, who heads up the Art Team. This would be the perfect moment to get involved, as we are in the early stages of MX-19 development.

Hi Jerry;

I remember doing this graphics together with Warren Woodford, he asked for rather new/strange (to me) file-formats for the bootscreen etc. Hope asqwerth knows what I mean, because I forgot what formats were used back in 2006
Best Regards, Ruud

Yes, if you're interested in helping with the artwork, we could always use some help. PM me if you're interested to discuss more.