Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!

On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:04:48 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> As for the definition of "forever", I learned early in my career that
> "never" (as in "Oh, don't worry about it - it'll never happen")
> is usually about six months.  Still, I've been happy with Debian for...
> oh, must be quite a while now; I remember going to a testing version of
> Jessie to get some drivers that Squeeze didn't have.

I had Debian on my work Linux box for two reasons. I didn't want a cutting 
edge distro on a production machine and Debian still had a 32-bit version. 
While you can build 32-bit programs on a 63-bit machine some of the 
libraries we used in conjunction with Motif and other third party stuff 
became increasingly difficult to add to a 64-bit distro.

It was adequate. I don't customize and I thought Xfce out of the box was a 
little primitive. I was surprised how nice it can be when I brought up 
MX.Xfce in a VM.

Other than the Trixie based RPi OS I didn't have a compelling reason to 
put Debian on my home machines.