Re: [Emc-developers] New Trixie ISO image for testing

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:43:40 -0800 



> Von: "andy pugh" <[email protected]>

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 01:12, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The image boots fine, has a cute Tux with an endmill as a splash in the 
> > upper-left quadrant of the early boot screen next to the typical ascii 
> > output.
> 
> Sadly not with UEFI in my experience, which is one reason it's not fully 
> released yet.

I'll check some more machines.
 
> > I chose the graphical live CD. That started fine, except for a window 
> > popping up with the message 'Plugin "(null)" could not  be loaded, do you 
> > want to remove it from the xfce4-panel configuration'.
> 
> It would be an easy fix, if I had any idea which plugin it was.

This "null" is indeed difficult to interpret. Maybe an empty line somewhere?

> > The keyboard layout is US with no immediate idea how to change it to 
> > something else  - eventually found it, but no alternative layout is offered 
> > in "Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard"
> 
> I would have expected that to be set by install language. But clearly not.

Hm. I do not recall to have set this for the LiveCD.

> > The image is already quite large (~4GB) with a considerable amount of 
> > documentation offered in the menus. I suggest to leave only the HTML of the 
> > English with pointers to the online variants of other languages to reduce 
> > the footprint of the image.
> 
> Is this really a problem? Can you still get a USB stick less than GB?

The disks on those older machines are smaller - had to remove a few installed 
kernels and git checkouts (LinuxCNC among them) in order to download the image. 
:-)  But yes, I agree, it is not an ultimate problem, or should not be.

> > And then, I wish the users of LinuxCNC would discuss how they want to use 
> > (or see used) the LiveCD. Could we not possibly find some special interest 
> > group that would want to shape it all a bit?
> 
> Are we not that special interest group?

We can be. I just know at least one very competent individual who is shying 
away from the -dev list since he is not a programmer. And there are some many 
bits that we do not want to care about that are nonetheless important to 
someone starting up the LiveCD (background, images, icons, pre-installed 
software, selection of colours, ...) that I think we are losing out as a 
community if we discuss this here.

Best,
Steffen




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