KDE on MX?

[anticapitalista]

MX does have MEPIS tools (improved) , just not the MEPIS default KDE desktop.

[joany]

MX does have MEPIS tools (improved) , just not the MEPIS default KDE desktop.

That's great! As Pete_J said, those make MEPIS special and they are a great help to Linux novices.

Question: Are all of Warren's tools still available? I'm referring to the MEPIS System Tools and the Repair System Boot. I couldn't find that in my MX-14 test installation.

[uncle mark]

MX does have MEPIS tools (improved) , just not the MEPIS default KDE desktop.

That's great! As Pete_J said, those make MEPIS special and they are a great help to Linux novices.

Question: Are all of Warren's tools still available? I'm referring to the MEPIS System Tools and the Repair System Boot. I couldn't find that in my MX-14 test installation.

I don't think Warren ever updated his Boot Repair Tool for grub2 before he quit.

[Jerry3904]

No, he left it out of M11 and M12 betas. He also never worked on muser after about 2009.

MX-14 has completely reworked muser, and added the very handy MX-Flash and MX-Codecs that Warren never had. msystem we replaced with Grub-Customizer and Disk Manager, since there was no need (and no time) to rework it given that two such well-considered tools already existed.

[lucky9]

M11 still has the System Assistant for fixing GRUB.

[anticapitalista]

M11 still has the System Assistant for fixing GRUB.

But it is useless at best and dangerous to use in MEPIS12

[ko]

I have not missed the System Assistant at all. I experienced some problems with it, so I skipped using it.
It's quite easy to repair grub in the MBR (master boot record on bootdisk) or in the PBR (root partition boot record).
The only things you need to be sure of:

1. what is my bootdrive? Probably /dev/sda, but you should know which drive you boot from.

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su
password:
grub-install /dev/sda

2. what is my root partition? Suppose it is /dev/sda1, but -again- you should know that.

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su
password:
grub-install /dev/sda1

In both cases follow up with running update-grub (as root)

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update-grub

[joany]

MX-14 has completely reworked muser, and added the very handy MX-Flash and MX-Codecs that Warren never had.

Very nice, although I notice MX-Flash and MX-Codecs are not installed by default. Legal reasons, perhaps? Also, when I ran MX-Codecs there were errors. Does something else have to be enabled?

EDIT: Never mind. I ran MX-Codecs again, and the installation was successful. Temporary glitch, I guess.

The other thing I notice is that MX User Assistant and MX User Manger both open the same application. Are there supposed to be two different applications, or is the same application shown twice under two different names?

[anticapitalista]

joany are you using latest RC2 version?

[kmathern]

MX-14 has completely reworked muser, and added the very handy MX-Flash and MX-Codecs that Warren never had.

Very nice, although I notice MX-Flash and MX-Codecs are not installed by default. Legal reasons, perhaps? Also, when I ran MX-Codecs there were errors. Does something else have to be enabled?

EDIT: Never mind. I ran MX-Codecs again, and the installation was successful. Temporary glitch, I guess.

The other thing I notice is that MX User Assistant and MX User Manger both open the same application. Are there supposed to be two different applications, or is the same application shown twice under two different names?

MX-Flash and MX-Codecs are installed by default in RC2, have you installed RC2?

A while back I think you did a install of either Beta 1 or Beta 2, but just upgrading wouldn't necessarily bring in those apps.

That might also explain why you have both 'MX User Assistant' and 'MX User Manager'. During development the app name changed to 'MX User manager' (installed by the mx-user package) and that's the only one you should see listed in the Whiskermenu of a RC2 install.