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Adrian
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Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin

#51 Post by Adrian »

You can take a snasphot, it's easy, but you need to change a file manually: /etc/skel/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar-volman.xml change

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  <property name="automount-drives" type="empty">
    <property name="enabled" type="bool" value="true"/>
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  <property name="automount-drives" type="empty">
    <property name="enabled" type="bool" value="false"/>
And then start MX Snapshot and take a snapshot. Or use Live USB Maker to clone the live system to a USB flashdrive.

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Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin

#52 Post by paul1149 »

Adrian wrote: Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:57 pm You can take a snasphot, it's easy, but you need to change a file manually: /etc/skel/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar-volman.xml change

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  <property name="automount-drives" type="empty">
    <property name="enabled" type="bool" value="true"/>
to:

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  <property name="automount-drives" type="empty">
    <property name="enabled" type="bool" value="false"/>
And then start MX Snapshot and take a snapshot. Or use Live USB Maker to clone the live system to a USB flashdrive.
Ok, thanks again. That sounds very easy.
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Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin

#53 Post by paul1149 »

Adrian wrote:
BTW, GSmartControl is up to v. 1.16 now (not in our repo), and there are very significant improvements, including the ability to test drives on USB connections.
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#54 Post by Adrian »

Uploaded 19.3 version of Workbench here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... y_Respins/

No major changes, mostly upgrade to latest MX 18.1 kernel and packages. If you have the old ISO use rsync to get the new one it should save you a lot of bandwidth. There's a zsync-respins.sh script in that folder that should help.

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#55 Post by Paul.. »

Thanks, Adrian.

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Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin

#56 Post by DevilMind »

Adrian wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:13 pm Thank you everybody for suggestions and testing, we have just finished uploading the MX-Workbench respin to our server: http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/Community_Respins/

Direct link: http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/Community_R ... 17.2-1.iso

This respin is meant to be a “Swiss Army” kind of tool for Sysadmins and also as a showcase for how easy is to customize and remaster MX Linux (here all the credit goes to BitJam and his wonderful Live tools). The idea is that a user would write this to a flashdrive and then customize it further by using Persistency and Remaster, and even create a new ISO for backup, distribution, or copy on another flashdrive.

GUI Tools (or tools available in the GUI Launcher):
-Disk Management: gparted, clonezilla, gsmartcontrol, baobab, disk-manager, qt4-fsarchiver, nwipe, testdisk
-GRUB Boot Functions: mx-bootrepair, grub-customizer
-File Management: mc, xfburn, freefilesync, grsync, file-roller, gftp, meld
-Antivirus: clamav
-File Recovery: photorec
-Hardware Info
-Network: ceni, wireshark, zenmap, linssid, mx-findshares
-Live USB Tools, mx-snapshot, mx-remastercc, live-usb-maker-gui
-Misc.: blockout2, geany, terminal
(categories and tools are listed alphabetically in the Launcher)

CLI Tools: chkrootkit, chntpw, clamav, dcfldd, dtrx, dvtm, fping, iputils-arping, iputils-ping, iputils-tracepath, lynx, nmap, rkhunter, screen, telnet, vim, w3m

And many other… And again, the main idea is that is very simple to edit the Custom Tool Launcher, if you want to add/remove stuff from it and then remaster or even create a new ISO. As it stand it’s around 1.2GB, we could have made it a bit smaller but we didn’t want to remove LibreOffice and other tools that might be useful -- we recommend to write it on a 4GB flash drive (2GB will also work) that should have enough space for future updates, remasters, and for your data.

Please give it a spin. Feedback is welcomed. Please suggest other tools to include, this is only a first iteration, we can include more useful tools.
can we have all of these tools in AntiX?

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Re: MX-Workbench Community Respin

#57 Post by Adrian »

DevilMind wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:09 pmcan we have all of these tools in AntiX?
Yes of course, you are free to update antiX and install these tools and take a snapshot.

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#58 Post by SwampRabbit »

Adrian wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:15 pm Yes of course, you are free to update antiX and install these tools and take a snapshot.
Adrian, I’ve been meaning to ask... will you be migrating the toolbox app over to MX-19?
It’s a very useful tool!
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#59 Post by Adrian »

SwampRabbit wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:57 pm
Adrian wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:15 pm Yes of course, you are free to update antiX and install these tools and take a snapshot.
Adrian, I’ve been meaning to ask... will you be migrating the toolbox app over to MX-19?
It’s a very useful tool!
Yes, of course, is it not in the repos? You should be able to install it from here: https://github.com/MX-Linux/custom-tool ... aster/debs

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#60 Post by SwampRabbit »

Thanks! Nope, couldn’t find it in the MX-19 repos. I was just going to wait a bit because I figured it would make it there sooner or later.
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