MX-Workbench Community Respin
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
I will probably upgrade the ISO on the MX17.1 base soon, I could remove Libreoffice, but I want the tool to be fully featured, not to subtract things. Also, like I mentioned before, this is meant to be a showcase of what could be done not necessarily to create a perfect tool for everybody, if you want a version without LibreOffice you could remove LibreOffice and take a snapshot and voila you have your own custom ISO without LibreOffice.
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
Looking forward to the new Workbench.
Desktop: Intel i5-4460, 16GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics
Clevo N130WU-based Ultrabook: Intel i7-8550U (Kaby Lake R), 16GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics (UEFI)
ASUS X42D laptop: AMD Phenom II, 6GB RAM, Mobility Radeon HD 5400
Clevo N130WU-based Ultrabook: Intel i7-8550U (Kaby Lake R), 16GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics (UEFI)
ASUS X42D laptop: AMD Phenom II, 6GB RAM, Mobility Radeon HD 5400
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin-LZ4-UNDER 500MB
According to Wikipediabled wrote:...LZ4-WHERE IS LZ4 COMPRESSION!!!
It's already in the kernel. Or am I missing something?LZ4 was also implemented natively in the Linux kernel 3.11.[5] The FreeBSD, Illumos, ZFS on Linux, and ZFS-OSX implementations of the ZFS filesystem support the LZ4 algorithm for on-the-fly compression.[6][7][8][9] Linux supports LZ4 for SquashFS since 3.19-rc1.[10]
Lenovo T430 i5/3320m 8GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 180GB SSD/128GB mSATA
Lenovo X230 i7/3520m 12GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 500GB SSD 480GB mSATA
Lenovo X131e i3/3227u 8GB MX21Xfce/Win7SP1 500GB SSD
Lenovo 11e Celeron n3150 4GB MX19/Fedora30Games 128GB SSD
Lenovo X230 i7/3520m 12GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 500GB SSD 480GB mSATA
Lenovo X131e i3/3227u 8GB MX21Xfce/Win7SP1 500GB SSD
Lenovo 11e Celeron n3150 4GB MX19/Fedora30Games 128GB SSD
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
I updated Workbench to be based on MX-17.1
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... y_Respins/
Here are some notable changes:
- removed LibreOffice to make a bit more room and added Abiword just in case somebody needs to open a .doc
- removed Installer -- this is not meant for installation
- added some requested apps
List of packages added over MX regular tools (like GParted and the like that are already installed in MX Linux):
abiword - as mentioned
bonnie++
ceni
chkrootkit
chntpw
clamav
clamtk
clonezilla
dcfldd
dmraid
dtrx
dvtm
fio
fping
freefilesync
fsarchiver
geany
gftp-gtk
ghex
grsync
iperf
iputils-arping
iputils-ping
iputils-tracepath
linssid
lynx
meld
nmap
nwipe
partclone
rkhunter
screen
stressapptest
telnet
vim
w3m
wakeonlan
wireshark
zenmap
And of course blockout2 to pass your time while waiting for a scan or backup process to finish
Please let me know if you want to see something else added/removed for the next release -- I won't upgrade this too often, maybe once or twice a year.
Again, this is mostly a showcase for how easy is to customize to make MX work for you, you can take this one and continue to customize it for your needs, remove/add packages and then take an easy snapshot with MX Snapshot or remaster if you run from USB Live with persistency. I'm sure there are many ways to make better in general and better suited for your particular needs.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... y_Respins/
Here are some notable changes:
- removed LibreOffice to make a bit more room and added Abiword just in case somebody needs to open a .doc
- removed Installer -- this is not meant for installation
- added some requested apps
List of packages added over MX regular tools (like GParted and the like that are already installed in MX Linux):
abiword - as mentioned
bonnie++
ceni
chkrootkit
chntpw
clamav
clamtk
clonezilla
dcfldd
dmraid
dtrx
dvtm
fio
fping
freefilesync
fsarchiver
geany
gftp-gtk
ghex
grsync
iperf
iputils-arping
iputils-ping
iputils-tracepath
linssid
lynx
meld
nmap
nwipe
partclone
rkhunter
screen
stressapptest
telnet
vim
w3m
wakeonlan
wireshark
zenmap
And of course blockout2 to pass your time while waiting for a scan or backup process to finish
Please let me know if you want to see something else added/removed for the next release -- I won't upgrade this too often, maybe once or twice a year.
Again, this is mostly a showcase for how easy is to customize to make MX work for you, you can take this one and continue to customize it for your needs, remove/add packages and then take an easy snapshot with MX Snapshot or remaster if you run from USB Live with persistency. I'm sure there are many ways to make better in general and better suited for your particular needs.
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
Thunar
Left column -click on Browse Network - get:
Failed to open "/on".
The specified location is not supported.
Can see my LAN on the old Workbench and on MX17.1
Earl
Left column -click on Browse Network - get:
Failed to open "/on".
The specified location is not supported.
Can see my LAN on the old Workbench and on MX17.1
Earl
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
These are the things that I purge (some items were available in MX16 and are not in MX17): https://github.com/AdrianTM/workbench-d ... s/purge.sh
Does it look like something that could affect Thunar network function? Otherwise I don't know why the functionality would change...
Does it look like something that could affect Thunar network function? Otherwise I don't know why the functionality would change...
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
Adrian
I installed:
gvfs-backends ( This package contains the afc, afp, archive, cdda, dav, dnssd, ftp,
gphoto2, http, mtp, network, sftp, smb and smb-browse backends.)
which brought in:
libgdata-common
libgdata22
libgoa-1.0-0b
libgoa-1.0-common
libimobiledevice6
libnfs8
liboauth0
libplist3
libusbmuxd4
Now seems to be working.
Earl
I installed:
gvfs-backends ( This package contains the afc, afp, archive, cdda, dav, dnssd, ftp,
gphoto2, http, mtp, network, sftp, smb and smb-browse backends.)
which brought in:
libgdata-common
libgdata22
libgoa-1.0-0b
libgoa-1.0-common
libimobiledevice6
libnfs8
liboauth0
libplist3
libusbmuxd4
Now seems to be working.
Earl
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
Thanks Earl!
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
@Adrian,
Thanks again for Workbench tool. I really like having a frugal Workbench install on my computers.
It's handy to have it so easily at hand. Currently using the WB_18.3_386 on an Acer One netbook
where these points came up. Also on the T430.
Although it uses demo & root, the root password doesn't work for me, calling from the menu.
Nearly all of the utilities in the Workbench Tools Launcher do start up as root,
only a couple failed for me. They are all available from a root terminal, if needed.
1. Fails from the Tools Launcher:
a. grub-customizer failed: could not find canonical path to 'overlay'
(you mentioned that's because of no grub, maybe needs a dialog to find grub)
b. linssid doesn't do anything, though it runs from a terminal.
2. Fails from main menu: All from menu that ask for a root password: just get 'Incorrect password.'
synaptic, etal: can open with 'sudo su -c synaptic'
This is just food for thought for a next iteration.
I know you built the Workbench to show the virtues of snapshot, and it is a handy tool.
The view at 1024x600 :)
Thanks again for Workbench tool. I really like having a frugal Workbench install on my computers.
It's handy to have it so easily at hand. Currently using the WB_18.3_386 on an Acer One netbook
where these points came up. Also on the T430.
Although it uses demo & root, the root password doesn't work for me, calling from the menu.
Nearly all of the utilities in the Workbench Tools Launcher do start up as root,
only a couple failed for me. They are all available from a root terminal, if needed.
1. Fails from the Tools Launcher:
a. grub-customizer failed: could not find canonical path to 'overlay'
(you mentioned that's because of no grub, maybe needs a dialog to find grub)
b. linssid doesn't do anything, though it runs from a terminal.
2. Fails from main menu: All from menu that ask for a root password: just get 'Incorrect password.'
synaptic, etal: can open with 'sudo su -c synaptic'
This is just food for thought for a next iteration.
I know you built the Workbench to show the virtues of snapshot, and it is a handy tool.
The view at 1024x600 :)
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demo@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxdlop
System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.15.0-1-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 tk: Gtk 2.24.31 Distro: MX-17.1_386 Horizon March 12, 2017
Machine: Type: Other-vm? System: Acer product: AOA150 v: 1 serial: <root required>
Mobo: Acer model: N/A serial: <root required> BIOS: Acer v: 0.3301 date: 05/09/2008
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 20.4 Wh condition: 20.4/45.5 Wh (45%) model: SIMPLO UM08B74
status: Full
CPU: Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell rev: 2
L2 cache: 512 KiB
flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6384
Speed: 1058 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1058 2: 1093
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1024x600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
direct render: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-686-pae
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <---->
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <---->
Drives: HDD Total Size: 165.43 GiB used: 67.11 GiB (40.6%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD02G size: 1.83 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS543216L9A300 size: 149.05 GiB temp: 40 C
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Verbatim model: STORE N GO size: 14.55 GiB
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 3.87 GiB used: 1017.2 MiB (25.6%) fs: overlay dev: ERR-102 label: N/A
ID-2: /live/boot-dev size: 91.53 GiB used: 54.71 GiB (59.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
label: DATA
ID-3: /media/demo/STORGOG size: 14.55 GiB used: 12.36 GiB (84.9%) fs: ntfs
dev: /dev/sdb1 label: STORGOG
ID-4: swap-1 size: 1.46 GiB used: 39.8 MiB (2.7%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4 label: N/A
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 size: 1.83 GiB fs: <root required> label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/mmcblk0p1 size: 1.83 GiB fs: vfat label: FAT32 uuid: 5FED-BB15
ID-3: /dev/sda1 size: 35.16 GiB fs: ntfs label: WINX uuid: 12C2EBC7C2EBAD63
ID-4: /dev/sda2 size: 19.31 GiB fs: ext4 label: MX171
uuid: c82af383-968f-409c-b58e-7d03aab887f0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 164 Uptime: 4h 03m Memory: 990.1 MiB used: 201.3 MiB (20.3%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.10
Last edited by Richard on Wed May 30, 2018 8:22 am, edited 2 times in total.
Thinkpad T430 & Dell Latitude E7450, both with MX-21.3.1
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3380M, Graphics, Audio, Video; & SSDs.
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3380M, Graphics, Audio, Video; & SSDs.
Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin
Synaptic launched for me with "root" password, can anybody else confirm? Linsisd need "root" added to /etc/custom-toolbox/workbench-tools.list config file because it needs to run as root.
Should we keep grub-customizer since there's no GRUB in the Live environment? As I mentioned before this MX Workbench ISO is not meant to be installed it's intended only for Live use.
Should we keep grub-customizer since there's no GRUB in the Live environment? As I mentioned before this MX Workbench ISO is not meant to be installed it's intended only for Live use.