Long Term Support for Debian Wheezy ends today. As MX-14 is based on Wheezy, its official support also ends as planned.
The MX-14 repositories will remain available indefinitely at http://archive.mxrepo.com (and for the near term at mxrepo.com and it.mxrepo.com) but they will soon no longer be officially mirrored elsewhere.
"Snapshots for May are up. Nothing special, about 30 packages were updated, among them a Firefox update 59->60, and an installer bugfix for installing MX Linux on ESP"
One of the things going on behind the scenes at the MX and antiX projects has been the re-unification of the source code base for our installers, which were diverging and basically causing some un-needed double work for both projects. There are several new developer features in the consolidated installer (now sourced as gazelle-installer) which will allow the projects to make improvements without the need for multiple code branches.
New developer features are configurable through a gazelle-installer-data package. These features include:
One of the better-kept secrets of the MX Linux project is the availability of Monthly Snapshot isos, made possible by the awesome antiX live-USB system and our MX-Snapshot utility. The Monthly Snapshots are created from a live-USB generated from an Official Release iso, and then applying all current updates to date to the live-USB. MX-Snapshot is then used to to create the Monthly Snapshot iso directly from the running live-USB system.
Today a problem came to our attention after we moved Libreoffice 6 into our main repository.
The problem came for users who were using the "apt-get upgrade" method of installing updates vs. the synaptic/mx-updater default of "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Usually, apt-get upgrade (and its cousin "apt upgrade") are the "ultra-safe" methods to install updates. An "apt-get upgrade" should have held back Libreoffice 6 packages and prevented them from updating, leaving the system unchanged with Libreoffice 5.
New kernels are available that include patches for the "meltdown" kernel issues. The following kernels that have been patched are available in MX-Packageinstaller.
MX-15/16
1. Debian-Backports 64 bit (currently a patched 4.9 kernel)
2. Debian 64 bit (currently a patched 3.16 kernel)
MX-17
1. Debian 64 bit (currently a patched 4.9 kernel)
2. MX 4.14 kernel (currently a patched 4.14.12)
3. Liquorix Kernel 64 bit (latest from mx test repo)