I agree, that disclaimer is quite important.An item for the server discussion thread: speaking as the person who made this, my first MX respin, I wouldn't recommend using MX Linux as the basis for a mission-critical production server. I would, rather, use a distro that's intended for that use and has a track record of security, stability and redundancy, has been built for use on commercially-made server hardware, and has excellent support for using it as a server.
Without extensive tuning and hardening, a respin of any "desktop -oriented linux" distro is suitable only as a learning lab.
The X environment (the "desktop") is typically omitted from a server-oriented O/S, toward minimizing risk of vulnerabilities.
Further, on a server, the "sudo" command is typically absent, by design.
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This means that every time sudo is invoked, it will ask for a password.
Without this as a starting point, a respin described as "for servers" will be cruel joke disservice
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Also, for usage as an "at-home server" (or even as a "learning lab"),krauser wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:49 am Anyone here using MX Linux as a server?
Let's say I wanted to have an e-commerce website(small one), I believe it would be fine under MX then?figueroa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 12:27 am No need to "Full stop." A lot of people run server functions on their desktop computers. The kernel refinement is more important to the desktop (responsiveness) than it is to the server. You can also install your server into a VirtualBox virtual machine if you'd like to segregate your stuff. No need to give the impression that MX is fatally flawed as a server.
it will be advisable to remove some additional "desktop-oriented" niceties//conveniences, e. g.:
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.skidoo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:51 am antiX-19-b1-full (64 and 32 bit) available
{ skidoo cringes }the automount-antix uses devmon to provide the automounting of removable media.
the defaults do indeed utilize noexec on removable media. we could possible add an option to override that.
@JayM, I haven't yet checked out your project. If you are already attending to security-related considerations, great. If not, please do so.