MX Linux Forum

There were Samba security upgrades in April, May & July. You might have accepted a change on one of those. Time to look at /etc/samba/smb.conf

I'm afraid I let my Ham license lapse the last time it came up as I hadn't made use of it in the prior ten year term. I've been using this userid since 1995 (when I was somewhat active on the air) so I'm not changing it. I've got an old rig in the closet but would have to put up an antenna for it. H...

I live in the affected area and my normal internet service is out. Working around via 3g cell service and public wifi (for large downloads) at a local establishment. The local master repo cannot be taken to the wifi so adding and uploading new packages involves some intermediate steps it doesn't nor...

I just re-uploaded all the index files to all the *mxrepo.com servers. Third party mirrors will update on their normal schedule. Hurricane Irma disrupted the normal repository updating procedures, and what appears to have happened is one old file was left in the indexes while the rest updated. Hash ...

What probably happened is that you mis-typed a repository address. It's what you get if you type
instead of

Patching bluez stops an information leak attack from that part of the stack. The kernel part of the stack is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. It isn't an easy one to trigger as it requires software tools not yet found in the wild. Debian hasn't patched any of its kernels yet, but it is on the...

The update fixing bluez for MX-16 hit the debian repositories today.

purple-facebook for mx17
audio-recorder for mx17

The package to install to get lz4 is liblz4-tool. It is in the default repositories.