Debian Buster

[shiba]

Since Buster is going to be released somewhat soon, I'm curious what the development team has planned for this.

How soon will a new MX release happen after Buster?
What is the usual process?
How can we as a community help with anything?

[BitJam]

I'm not speaking officially, maybe others have more to add or correct. AFAIK a release of antiX-19 using Buster is planned for this spring. We could certainly use help there with alpha and beta testing. The MX release usually follows the antiX release. Again there we can use help with alpha and beta testing. There is a lot over overlap between antiX and MX so you can almost consider antiX an early beta of MX (in some ways). Of course all of the XFCE stuff is unique to MX.

Generally, if we can get antiX out the door and in good shape in the spring then that makes the MX release easier. We usually need to stop most antiX work in the summer so if the antiX release gets delayed until the fall then that makes the release schedule tight and gruelling. My main concern now is getting antiX-19 out the door this spring.

[shiba]

We could certainly use help there with alpha and beta testing. The MX release usually follows the antiX release.

Great, I'll look for the antiX release and try on my asus notebook. It seems to have some unique hardware issues that I can test against.

I found one of runwithdolpin's videos discussing some of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3n9SEpa_L0

[rasat]

I am running Buster since January, didn't come across any problem with the common packages. Debian did/does excellent job upgrading them and dependencies every day. The change from Stretch to Buster is not "automatic", must be done manually which are quite easy steps.

[manyroads]

[...] We could certainly use help there with alpha and beta testing. [...]

If you want help from an old cranky guy... I'm happy to function as a "loose nut on the keyboard" (aka a tester).

[thatsjm4u]

I am running Buster since January, didn't come across any problem with the common packages. Debian did/does excellent job upgrading them and dependencies every day. The change from Stretch to Buster is not "automatic", must be done manually which are quite easy steps.

Can you please guide me to upgrading from MXLinux 18.
which uses libc6 2.24 and i want to use libc6 2.28 which is required for Unreal Engine 4.

if you are using Debian then i'll wait for antiX or MXLinux Upgrade.

[zorzi]

I am running Buster since January, didn't come across any problem with the common packages. Debian did/does excellent job upgrading them and dependencies every day. The change from Stretch to Buster is not "automatic", must be done manually which are quite easy steps.

Can you please guide me to upgrading from MXLinux 18.
which uses libc6 2.24 and i want to use libc6 2.28 which is required for Unreal Engine 4.

if you are using Debian then i'll wait for antiX or MXLinux Upgrade.

Upgrading Debian sources in MX18 is not recommended. It may break your system. Future MX 19 will be built on Debian Buster.

[entropyfoe]

Download the antiX 19 beta2!

I am running it in my testing partition on my main machine.
I initially had sound problems, but reinstalled and avoided what were probably self inflicted mis-configurations.

But all is working now, very fast, and stable so far (uptime 2 days), lots of packages added, sleep mode works. I am running a 5.1.5 kernel, so all very new.

Check it out, if this is early indication of how buster and MX will be, it looks very promising.

[thatsjm4u]

Hey,
did you know, when stable release rollout.

did you encounter with COMRESET failed errno = -32,
I'm frequently getting this issue on MXLinux and after installation of Buster also,

[manyroads]

Hey,
did you know, when stable release rollout.

did you encounter with COMRESET failed errno = -32,
I'm frequently getting this issue on MXLinux and after installation of Buster also,

MX is not released to work with Buster yet... I think you might be on your own.