Expirion is alive again

Expirion has been update on 31Aug2024 to reflect the release of Debian 12.7 - Kernel has been upgraded to 6.10.6+bpo LibreOffice is 24.8.0.3 and several internal updates as well
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Expirion Linux

Download Expirion Linux for free. Expirion 5.0.3 Xfce is based on Devuan 5 and does not use systemd but instead uses RunIt. The LXQt version uses SysVinit - Some software that is included are LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird , Audacity, Brasero and VLC Media Player All ISOs are 64Bit only...
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GatorsFan said:
Expirion has been update on 31Aug2024...
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Nice reminder, i once downloaded 'Expirion-5.0.1-Xfce-240808.iso' (2 GB) and even verified it was able to boot at least in LIVE mode from my YUMi-exFAT external USB drive, then other things got me busy. Maybe this is an opportunity to verify if there's an exception to my slogan « Fix once, Break many »! Lets have some vitamin C...

P.S.: The new version 'Expirion-5.0.2-Xfce-240902.iso' was available when i revisited its project page, and this time i got curious enough to click on the "i" icon in italic. Bingo! There it was, the SHA1 control sum, so i copied my download to the USB drive and verified integrity again.

It did boot fine but the language option from GrUB's menu switched to italian, so i retried but edited the command to get my own selection, then launched the LIVE session from where to install. Partitions had been already prepared, except it was necessary to flag the ESP one correctly. The installer performed its task successfully but it felt less than user-friendly, perhaps because of its relative novelty; by the way, fonts on my small NoteBook display had to be adjusted before i could continue... There was some complain message about the i915 FirmWare but that didn't bother me again once i typed « sudo apt-get update » in the CLI, then it was ready to get upgraded. When i searched in Synaptic the video i915 firmware appeared to be present, so i started to add 'HardInfo' and got version 2.1.11, a pleasant surprise.

VLC Media Player was preinstalled and i was able to get 'Celluloid', 'Gnome Totem' and 'MPV' ready. 'Hypnotix' refused me its favours and 'SMPlayer' proved defective or at least unable to handle my .m3u iP-TV list. I'm about to examine the results collected by HardInfo using these video players, hoping this fresh-new setup has an edge.

My following thread contains previous "average values" mesured under other Linux spins:

'Dell Inspiron 15 3520 as replacement for Insignia NS-P11W7100' *​
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CPU N-Queens: 525.26 ±0.54 %​
SysBench Memory (Multi-thread): 9977 ±0.61 % (n/a in Expirion, so far...)​

Here are my « CPU N-Queens » readings as obtained while evaluating iP-TV on Expirion, once permanently installed:

Preliminary/iddle: 545.00​
Gnome Totem: 851.44​
Cellulolid: 885.04, 976.76 (BlueTooth earphones)​
MPV: 907.64​
VLC: 1022.00​

Good day, have fun!! :cool:
 
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A fresh install ain't to par with some auto-update? Well, if it auto-updates actually, as i can't remember clearly. I fire them up one after the other once in a while to check which ones grey out graciously and which ones fail early, including Win11 which proved being the worse of them all after stealing me 45 minutes when i thought 5 would do fine...
 
Egzoset said:
A fresh install ain't to par with some auto-update? Well, if it auto-updates actually, as i can't remember clearly. I fire them up one after the other once in a while to check which ones grey out graciously and which ones fail early, including Win11 which proved being the worse of them all after stealing me 45 minutes when i thought 5 would do fine...
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Unattended upgrades is not installed by default you can run
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
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to update /upgrade or can easily install it with
sudo apt install unattended-upgrades
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or get it through the Synaptic Package Manager this will allow for automatically get security update in case you cannot remember to run sudo apt update once a week
 
Having to face general indifference feels familiar enough if that's what you mean.
 
My Expirion 5 setup is still working as expected, unlike Sparky which lost BlueTooth connectivity for some obscure reason. YMMV! Anyway, i'd just want to suggest the addition of ia32 GrUB2 (PC & EFI) resources for cases as evoked in a ChomeBook thread just recently.
 
Egzoset said:
My Expirion 5 setup is still working as expected, unlike Sparky which lost BlueTooth connectivity for some obscure reason. YMMV! Anyway, i'd just want to suggest the addition of ia32 GrUB2 (PC & EFI) resources for cases as evoked in a ChomeBook thread just recently.
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I will consider it thanks for the suggestion
 
Yes, i got this one:

'Expirion-5.0.2-Xfce-241104.iso' (2G0)​

Verified twice using Thunar v4.18.4 + GtkHash v1.4, but i still don't believe it's able to complete booting on that user's machine which is likely to search for 'bootia32.efi' and drop to a CLI, as this critical component failed to show up in the .ISO unless it's hidden deeper elsewhere.

Refering to MX i observed these are conventional locations typical of Debian derivatives, in addition to '/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/' and their related resources:

/boot/grub/i386-efi/​
/boot/grub/i386-pc/​
/EFI/BOOT/BOOTia32.efi​
/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi​

With those also optionally present at times:

/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi​
/EFI/BOOT/mmx64.efi​

Yet i've seen exceptions as with RedCore having a less convential tree:

/boot/efi/bootia32.efi​
/boot/efi/bootx64.efi​
/boot/grub/i386-efi/​
/boot/grub/i386-pc/​
/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/​

Too bad i can no longer perform any test with an UEFi BiOS that requires some hybrid 32/64 boot-loading scheme myself. Thanks giving it a try anyway!!

:cool:
 
I have just upgraded my Expirion Linux to 5.0.3 to reflect the upgrade to Debian 12.8 - I also upgraded my LMDE Respin to 6.8 and gave it a kernel upgrade to 6.10.11+bpo also my Debian 12.8 respin as well to kernel 6.1.0-27

If anyone is interested
 
GatorsFan said:
Just upgraded Expirion to kernel 6.11.5+bpo and LibreOffice to 24.8.3, along with LMDE 6.8 Respin
if anyone is interested
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I got it from the previous v5 install that went fine, so now my only interest is about ia32 support which was still absent after i reported it in my last post.
 
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GatorsFan said:
...I have no way to test it
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Me neither, but i did notice it wasn't visible using the archiver utility. If i cared enough i'd try some emulator i guess, but i only mentioned this after a new member came around complaining about his own OS-selective BayTrail, which made me think perhaps that was some nice way to enlarge Expirion's audience. Similar to how i came to discover MX and adopt it when i still had to deal with an hybrid 32/64 bits bootloader on my previous tablet. No more patching for me...
 
Egzoset said:
Me neither, but i did notice it wasn't visible using the archiver utility. If i cared enough i'd try some emulator i guess, but i only mentioned this after a new member came around complaining about his own OS-selective BayTrail, which made me think perhaps that was some nice way to enlarge Expirion's audience. Similar to how i came to discover MX and adopt it when i still had to deal with an hybrid 32/64 bits bootloader on my previous tablet. No more patching for me...
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I just uploaded a new one Expirion-5.0.3-Xfce-241117 I added these 3 extra files to /efi/boot - I does work on x64 but like I said I have no way to test the bootia32.efi

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