"ragout" ... really?

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"ragout" ... really?

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So I have been toying with the "ragout" mx arm build and I am sorry... was this rushed? Was there little to no attention to detail as far as stability and use? Was this nothing more then a mashup of packages piped onto an arm kernel? For one it ships entirely with only sysD? Not even the sysD shim + sysV? and.. what is with the multi layered bloat? By default there are active lxde, openbox and xfce components and full desktop and window managers? The repo's are grandfathered and not updated? This was the release final? A thousand random wallpapers, window managers with no session tag from lightDM so they just sit idly by wasting space? Just stings to see and think there was zero testing and thought into rolling out a distro based off a sysD free distro that one only has a sysD build and choosing flux by default you seemingly "forgot" to trim all the bloat that only works if you are running xfce4?

*PS.. also if you are going to layer ontop of a deb kernerl.. perhaps layout sysV and compile the binaries of sysD independent packages first? Just a thought..*
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MX Linux "Ragout" is a personal respin, not an official MX release. I was the lead, so will make only a few comments and corrections.

1) The OS is based on and designed to be fully compliant with Rasbian, which requires a sysD boot. It is entirely distinct from the MX family approach.
2) I named it "Ragout" ("stew" in French, right?) precisely to point to the mixture of app sources, which I also explicitly mentioned in the Blog announcement. Rasbian itself brings in the lxde and openbox components, and the few Xfce pieces derive from personal preference and a desire to reduce separate maintenance demands.
3) Rasbian, like MX, is based on Debian Stable; there is a recent Bullseye release, but it is essentially an early Beta and not usable for any development purposes IMO.

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