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Post subject: smxi support
 Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 09:10 AM
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Hi,
I would have a general question about smxi. What other distributions except sidux smxi still supported? All debian based distributions or only some? |
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Post subject: RE: smxi support
Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 11:32 AM
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| As far as I know, smxi works on all debian based distros (but NOT buntu's etc). In terms of active ongoing support, smxi is not supported by sidux, but smxi's creator h2 supports it here. AntiX also has a good relationship with smxi. |
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Post subject: RE: smxi support
Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 04:22 PM
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correct, smxi works fine on Debian Sid, Debian Squeeze, AntiX and sidux, there are rumors it also runs on Debian Lenny, but why one would want to run it on Lenny is beyond me, being as stable is stable only when left that way (except for security issues of course).
As for support, you can get support directly from the #smxi channel on IRC (same server as #sidux) or by going to http://smxi.org |
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Post subject: RE: smxi support
Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 05:30 PM
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yes, it runs on lenny. I like smxi on stable, it's got some lenny specific features that are actually quite useful, though of course it's definitely not required or vital, but it is convenient. That lenny support will be quite useful when squeeze goes stable, then the kde 3 to kde 4 upgrade tool will automatically kick in and help with the conversion to kde 4, which is not a beautiful thing to behold in any case, but smxi does make it a bit smoother and more robust.
antix has the 4 core ***i scripts/stub installer, pure os has them, mepis uses it though some things in mepis are not debian standard (same for antix, which is mepis based), so users have to change some stuff to use kernel install feature, back to debian standard/defaults.
It also works on etch, and of course Sid straight, Testing straight. Personally I recommend sid users add sidux sources to get the sidux repo hot fixes, since smxi doesn't have a non sidux sid support in place, though one could be added were enough demand for that to appear. smxi has separate fixes and warning/alert/holds for stable, testing, and sid.
The term 'still supported' however is not correct, support is growing outside of sidux, slowly but surely, distros are adding it from what I can see, though not always as a default option, and usually because of end user demand, though some devs are putting it in as well. Whatever makes people happy, I don't care.
smxi is a user driven script, where it goes is where people want it to go, though of course I, as primary author and alpha tester get to be the top user...
basically, since the tools and methods smxi uses are largely straight debian (with occasional tweaks where the debian method simply fails, or isn't reliable enough, as with non free driver installs etc, most of these simply being scripted versions of for example sidux fixes), any pure debian distro could pop it in and use it without doing anything. Some more or less debian based distros will have to be updated to fix some non debian things, as is the case with mepis, I don't deal with those, unless I get the actual code/fix in a reasonably working form from the distro maintainers, and in general I try to avoid stuff that doesn't conform to default straight debian because it's a pain trying to maintain such offshoots. |
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Post subject: RE: smxi support
Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 06:18 PM
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| @all: Thank you for the extensive information. |
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