MX Linux Forum

I have moved the single thread on "MX Documentation" to its own forum under MX, because I can never find it and because all the topics are jumbled up inside it.

Fantastic! That will help as I prepare to install MX14 on my old Dell laptop.

Now if we only had a M12 subforum.....

Now if we only had a M12 subforum.....

Now if we only had M12 ...

I know the feeling. I'm at the age when I have trouble finding the bathroom at night.

Jerry3904 wrote:Now if we only had M12 ...

I'm not so sure about that. Think we are doing very well with MX.

Gordon.

Wuz joque

Wish we had a M12 final, too. I have had very few issues with the beta, just trouble finding related posts. Do I look in M11 modified, or MX14? Have not needed much help, tho. I guess I stick with it because I like KDE. I have downloaded MX14 and will get around to installing on my old Dell 1150 this weekend and get used to playing with it.

It has a dedicated forum called "Beta-RCs Only"

http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewforum.php?f=20

Earl57 wrote:Wish we had a M12 final, too. I have had very few issues with the beta, just trouble finding related posts. Do I look in M11 modified, or MX14? Have not needed much help, tho. I guess I stick with it because I like KDE. I have downloaded MX14 and will get around to installing on my old Dell 1150 this weekend and get used to playing with it.

Remember you can install KDE-Standard and have most (if not all) of KDE 4.8.4 that M12 Beta2 has. There's a HowTo in the MX14.x docs.

lucky9 wrote:Remember you can install KDE-Standard and have most (if not all) of KDE 4.8.4 that M12 Beta2 has. There's a HowTo in the MX14.x docs.

- Yes, I am running (with other former Mepis users) MX-14 + KDE. Do not miss anything from previous releases of Mepis. Runs fast and slick.

I'll probably install KDE on my MX install just to see how much it is different from M12. Probably not much. I used my MX14 disk Friday to do some things on my Win 7 machine at work. I no longer have admin rights on my work machine thanks to our new IT team, so there are things I can no longer do from within Windows, but I can do outside of Windows with a live Linux session. I booted into MX14, and it took only a few minutes to feel right at home, and was able to copy/delete files that were inaccessible to me from within Windows. I think MX could easily replace my go-to M8 installed on a thumb drive for repair work.

Make sure to check out the document of users before you who have gone that route:

http://www.mepiscommunity.org/doc_mx/advanced_kde.html

Earl57 wrote:I no longer have admin rights on my work machine thanks to our new IT team, so there are things I can no longer do from within Windows, but I can do outside of Windows with a live Linux session. I booted into MX14, and it took only a few minutes to feel right at home, and was able to copy/delete files that were inaccessible to me from within Windows.

LOL. Maybe that's what they didn't want you doing?

I'm sure they don't. But over the years, I wound up with 4 user accounts on this machine, 2 local, and 2 domain accounts, and I find now that I don't have access to my other accounts. It was handy to be able to login as Admin and clean the registry or install/delete apps. I also had some files and templates that I needed occasional access to under my old domain account. Also some other utilities that ran as admin that I can't use now.
Using my MX cd, I was able to move the files that I wanted to keep to my current user account, and delete a bunch of stuff I didn't need anymore. I was also able to see some interesting stuff in those files denied to me, like remote login credentials written in plain text.....