end of life

[bmike1]

when do you think mX14 will die or not be upraded to mX15/16/etc....?
I ask because I am on an XP board and they are wondering what they should do now that XP will no longer be patched so I am sharing about Linux and thought I would share about a small distro that fits on a CD.

[Jerry3904]

Since it is based on Wheezy, it will be officially supported for about year after Jessie becomes Stable (if I understand correctly). Our packagers are adept at backporting, though, so the practical life could be much longer.

Xfce 4.10 is well supported too, and 4.12 is in development (though no release date is set AFAIK).

The Dev Team has not even broached the topic, but I am certainly interested in thinking about developing an MX-15 over the winter.

[uncle mark]

when do you think mX14 will die or not be upraded to mX15/16/etc....?
I ask because I am on an XP board and they are wondering what they should do now that XP will no longer be patched so I am sharing about Linux and thought I would share about a small distro that fits on a CD.

MX will be around a good long while. Have faith in that. It may evolve and newer versions will be released, but that won't mean MX-14 will be obsoleted.

Now if these people expect 13 years like XP...

[kmathern]

when do you think mX14 will die or not be upraded to mX15/16/etc....?
I ask because I am on an XP board and they are wondering what they should do now that XP will no longer be patched so I am sharing about Linux and thought I would share about a small distro that fits on a CD.

If Wheezy gets LTS support like they're doing for Squeeze, it'll probably be supported for another 4 years or so by Debian, and possibly longer than that by the folks here.

How much longer do you think your XP hardware will last? It might die before MX14.

[joany]

when do you think mX14 will die or not be upraded to mX15/16/etc....?
I ask because I am on an XP board and they are wondering what they should do now that XP will no longer be patched so I am sharing about Linux and thought I would share about a small distro that fits on a CD.

Your XP board is for people who hang on to an OS for a very long time -- basically the life of their machines. There is no Linux distro that I'm aware of that will approach the longevity of Windows.

They can run a Linux OS forever, but they'll have trouble installing software on it beyond the support cycle. An LTS version might be supported for 2-3 years, but that's about as good as it gets.

I would go ahead and recommend MX-14 to your group. They won't be disappointed.

[Pierre]

"I would go ahead and recommend MX-14 to your group. They won't be disappointed."

+1

- don't forget to point them to this forum, as a N00B

we'll sort 'em out.

[lucky9]

I would go ahead and recommend MX-14 to your group. They won't be disappointed.

If Wheezy gets LTS support like they're doing for Squeeze, it'll probably be supported for another 4 years or so by Debian, and possibly longer than that by the folks here.

How much longer do you think your XP hardware will last? It might die before MX14.

I would concur with both statements. MX14 does what it needs to do OOTB. Is based on current software (for debian). 3 or 4 years support is almost forever in the computer world. You can very easily 'dress' the system to please your needs/wants. It's imminently solid and stable. What else is there?

[LnoyBoy]

For me, the best selling point for Linux was the live CD.

That you can try it out without messing with your installed operating system.

[lucky9]

For me, the best selling point for Linux was the live CD.

That you can try it out without messing with your installed operating system.

I've become so used to the way things are now, that I completely forgot about the 'LiveCD/DVD'. 10 years ago it was magic. It was probably one of the main reasons that I looked at Linux. (I had a second HDD in the system so it was much easier to decide to install.)
But those first looks at Linux was always via a LiveDisk. Which was a very handy tool even if you didn't have an installed Linux system.

[uncle mark]

For me, the best selling point for Linux was the live CD.

That you can try it out without messing with your installed operating system.

I've become so used to the way things are now, that I completely forgot about the 'LiveCD/DVD'. 10 years ago it was magic. It was probably one of the main reasons that I looked at Linux. (I had a second HDD in the system so it was much easier to decide to install.)
But those first looks at Linux was always via a LiveDisk. Which was a very handy tool even if you didn't have an installed Linux system.

Knoppix did the Live CD thing first, I think. Then I believe Warren had the first install-from-live-disk installer.

I remember the early Ubuntu versions offered two disks -- one was a live demo disk, and the other was an install disk that used the old Debian text installer.