MX-14 Review
Re: MX-14 Review
In that review, he emphasized that the issues were not Xubuntu's fault, and that the computer had given him problems with every distro he tried on it. Doesn't appear to be the same computer he tested MX-14 on.
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Re: MX-14 Review
None of that matters. It's all about pretty.malspa wrote:In that review, he emphasized that the issues were not Xubuntu's fault, and that the computer had given him problems with every distro he tried on it. Doesn't appear to be the same computer he tested MX-14 on.
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Acer Aspire 5250 -- MX 21 KDE
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Re: MX-14 Review
Unfortunately, Dedoimedo's reviews of MX-14 and Xubuntu 14.04 are poorly done in comparison to Arindam Sen's reviews of the same releases:
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... truly.html
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... eview.html
And those two reviews seem to confirm what I've suspected to be the case: That MX-14 and Xubuntu 14.04 are both very nice releases, and that neither one is all that much better than the other.
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... truly.html
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... eview.html
And those two reviews seem to confirm what I've suspected to be the case: That MX-14 and Xubuntu 14.04 are both very nice releases, and that neither one is all that much better than the other.
Re: MX-14 Review
Interesting review. Why is it called MX-14 rather than MEPIS 14? To make sure a new user would not expect to get the KDE with this new distro. ?
Re: MX-14 Review
Because it is not a MEPIS release--take a look at the website description: http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mxWhy is it called MX-14 rather than MEPIS 14?
There are also a bunch of threads on here talking about this in detail if you want to follow it out.
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It's not Mepis. It's the result of the Mepis Community devs and the antix devs. Warren was not involved. It uses XFCE for the DE. It has several enhancements not the least of which is the MetaInstaller. Flash Updater and others make it a totally different idea.
It is based on Wheezy. It is 32 bit only.
It is based on Wheezy. It is 32 bit only.
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Re: MX-14 Review
Plymouth just slows things down...waaay down sometimes. Plymouth on a 'old machine' distro is counterproductive.
I'm a 'watch the text scroll by during boot' man. Granted, sometimes it's too fast to glean anything from, but it always gives me SOME indication of how things are going during bootup and has been useful to me as a troubleshooting aid on many occasions.
Including Plymouth OOTB may indeed increase 'sales', and that would be a good thing. But make it so that the 'eye candy' crowd can keep it, and the 'text' crowd can uninstall it without penalty. I have tried to uninstall it from other distros only to lose the whole distro without warning. This is 'anti-linux'. I didn't keep those distros and they get no 2nd chance. There are too many 'pro-linux' choices out there, of which MX is king!
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I'm a 'watch the text scroll by during boot' man. Granted, sometimes it's too fast to glean anything from, but it always gives me SOME indication of how things are going during bootup and has been useful to me as a troubleshooting aid on many occasions.
Including Plymouth OOTB may indeed increase 'sales', and that would be a good thing. But make it so that the 'eye candy' crowd can keep it, and the 'text' crowd can uninstall it without penalty. I have tried to uninstall it from other distros only to lose the whole distro without warning. This is 'anti-linux'. I didn't keep those distros and they get no 2nd chance. There are too many 'pro-linux' choices out there, of which MX is king!
Regards,
Gary
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Re: MX-14 Review
Pardon my newbie-ish ignorance then, but if Plymouth slows everything down, how is it that Xubuntu boots up to a desktop in under 9 seconds on my old hardware? MX takes nearly 45 seconds.gmagar wrote:Plymouth just slows things down...waaay down sometimes. Plymouth on a 'old machine' distro is counterproductive.
I don't care about splash or text either way, but judging purely on what I see and from the perspective of an admittedly "ordinary" Linux user, I can't see that the splash screen on boot-up slows anything down.
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9 seconds trumps 45 seconds. You win. And you are pardoned.
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9 seconds is astonishing. ..
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