MX-Workbench Community Respin

[Adrian]

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.

[asqwerth]

Looking forward to the new Workbench.

[azrielle]

...LZ4-WHERE IS LZ4 COMPRESSION!!!

According to Wikipedia

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]

It's already in the kernel. Or am I missing something?

[Adrian]

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.

[old_guy]

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

[Adrian]

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...

[old_guy]

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

[Adrian]

Thanks Earl!

[Richard]

@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 :)

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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 

[Adrian]

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.