MX-18 RC1 Feedback

[richb]

@pierre just the normal upgrade path install. Install and save /home. Be a bit cautious or things could go 'south' on you. I managed without problem.... nothing much destroyed besides having to reinstall my software changes. Now I'm testing to see how Timeshift might work on the transition from RC1 to whatever is next.

Pierre is asking for an upgrade path without a download. There is no official upgrade path from beta to RC. Best to download. And a smaller download is to use the delta and generate the new full iso.

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xdelta3 -d -s fromfile patchname.delta tofile

[baldyeti]

Tx, Chris & Rose, that worked.

I installed MX-18RC1_386.iso to the same rather low-end HP110/AMD6-5200 system I used to test MX18b1.
Went even smoother, the generated grub.cfg has a windows entry this time. Nothing odd noticed so far.
Looks like a nice refresh, before next year's edition hopefully based on buster.
But thanks to the mx test repo and its updated packages, i am not that impatient to get there.

[Eadwine Rose]

Thanks Danielson. Remember this is a release candidate, so it is not the final release yet :)

[chrispop99]

Very trivial - README file in .conky mentions MX-17. Suggest change to MX-Linux to cover all bases.

Chris

[Gerson]

@richb
But this situation of the Conky never happened to me neither live nor when installing MX 17; 17.1 and beta MX 18. only with MX 17 beta.
The installation is very fast, faster than MX 17.1 and all the programs I use are installed without problems from the test repo and Debian. It may be my impression but it seems to me that this RC flows much better.

[richb]

@richb
But this situation of the Conky never happened to me neither live nor when installing MX 17; 17.1 and beta MX 18. only with MX 17 beta.
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Different conky, different systems. We are aware of the situation and looking for a solution.

[Gordon Cooper]

When was RC released please ? Getting a string of 404's on the NZ repeater.

[Jerry3904]

This morning. You might want to change mirrors, however--have looked at the 70 mirrors listed in Repo Manager? Or, have you used the button to find the fastest repo?

[Gordon Cooper]

NZ is often half a day behind, will try later in day. NZ should be fastest fo me it's only about 6 kilometres away and all this area has had copper replaced by glass fibre.

[Jerry3904]

The distance between "should be" and "is" could be pretty great--what would it hurt to run that button?