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Midweight Linux OS based on Debian stable. Using core antiX components +additional software created / packaged by the MX community.
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MX Linux week ending news are sad.
Jerry Bond, a core developer (and the lead maintainer of the huge MX Manual amongst many other things) has passed away.
Jerry was known in the MX forum as “jerry3904”. The family is grieving but otherwise OK. Rest in piece.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-december-5-2025/
Jolla: a fresh next-gen phone 🐧📱
Contemplating options for e.g. Your current Google Android device? Here's yet another true Linux answer for a functional daily driver (after Jolla C2).
These devices come with preinstalled SailfishOS; also use Android (APK) apps WITHOUT Google. Your terms✌️
◉ Pre-Order via 99€ (advance voucher)
◉ Full price that case 499€
◉ Jolla C2 is 299€
👉 https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
#Jolla #Phone #smartphone #SailfishOS #deGoogle #APK #Linux #PrivacyFromFinland #Suomi @jolla
@Linux Maybe in not that very distant future GSP equipped NVIDIA cards can "just work" out of the box great on basically every distro. A win for regular users for sure. NOVA appears Red Hat's attempt to create a driver that only working with GSP and "Turing" GPU cards while leaving Nouveau to the previous cards.
New nvidia-driver package (535.216.03-2~mx23ahs) should be hitting AHS repos soon. This version should work with 6.12 kernels without the need for an xorg.conf file.
MX Tools updates this week:
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (25.02.04mx23)
* update liquorix 6.12.16 kernel
* remove budgie (conflicts with xfce 4.20)
plymouth-themes-mx (25.02.01)
* New themes
* MXCreative
* MXIntoFocus
* MXIntoFocusColor
The new themes are in a secondary package, plymouth-themes-mx-extra
Wanna let go of Google on mobile? JOLLA goes rock 'n' rollout mode ⛵ 🐧 📲
The only independent commercial mobile OS entity served Sailfish OS 5 to all supported devices - incl. new Jolla C2 phone (ordered again via fresh batch) 🙂🤳
Next era for Jolla (and mobile realm in general) - upgraded Android app usage WITHOUT Google +much more.
👉 https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish-os-5-0-tampella-is-here/
#Jolla #mobile #Linux #SailfishOS #Android #Tampella #Tampere #PrivacyFromFinland
📣 Guess what? Linux faster than Windows increasingly | '25 Gaming benchmarks 🐧 🎮
Enjoy the show!
👉 https://youtu.be/D45AknAsIPw
#Linux #gaming #Windows #benchmarks #project2025 #LinuxGaming
If you are interested in helping the fluxbox team work on the mx25 release, there are many opportunities that will be showing up in the forum.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-february-7-2025/
Meta (Facebook) has started deleting comments / posts on Facebook where a well established and beloved Linux site distrowatch.com is mentioned.
Accounts there became flagged as a "danger to cyber security" via Linux and Distrowatch related topics.
Things keep getting funnier and sillier are they not 🙂
Then again - Meta / Facebook is a rusty thing of a past in every sense..
👉 https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews
@distrowatch #Distrowatch #Linux #Facebook #Meta #ban #madness
MX 23.5 Now Available!
MX-23.5 is the fifth refresh of our MX-23 release, consisting of bugfixes, kernel updates, and application updates since our original release of MX-23.
If you are already running MX-23, there is no need to reinstall. Packages are all available through the regular update channels or by installing the changed applications.
Debian 12.8 updates came down the pipe. So new 6.1 kernel, libc6 among other updates.
MX Tools updates:
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (24.11.02mx23)
* update liquorix 6.11 (.6) kernel
mx-tour (24.11.03mx24)
* release Qt version
* runs properly on wayland (KDE)
* no new translations at this time
* add accelerator keys
* scroll tabs with left and right arrows
mx-packageinstaller (24.11)
* Check install recommended depends according to global settings
* Update translations
🧡 Local Communities (LoCo) of Ubuntu Linux are adding up 📈
🇫🇮 Ubuntu Suomi (Finland) joining forces now in more get-together-way locally.
So, Ubuntu enthusiastic Finns please head over to these!
Telegram 👉 https://t.me/linuxubuntusuomi
Discourse 👉 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/ubuntu-fi/265
#Ubuntu #Linux #Finland #Suomi #Discourse #Telegram #LoCo #local #communities @UbuntuSuomi
MX news ending october
Debian dropped 32 bit kernel builds as of 6.11 kernel release.
Change logs indicate that Debian will not be building 32 bit x86 kernels in Debian 13 and onward.
This does not affect MX 21 or MX 23 users. At this time no decisions have been made for MX 25.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-october-26-2024/
🐧 🌴 Linux in Africa is the next big thing ✨
◉Skill, creativity & enthusiasm is there
◉What to expand now is COOPERATION (Europe, Americas, east...)
◉Potential to be #1 continent OS family is unmatched
◉Old PC's put to work via Linux (where Windows makes 'em "obsolete")
◉🇳🇬 Nigeria (UbuCon, FOSSnaija) / 🇿🇦 South Africa (Ubuntu) / 🇰🇪 Kenya (Tunapanda) already thrive - 🇳🇦 Namibia joins the ranks
Ngazetungue Muheue explains 👉 https://youtu.be/byPpJW5l6pg?t=23063
The forum was down recently, but swift work commenced - now back up thanks to good work by our webmaster and forum administrator 🙏
MX news from the dev Dolphin Oracle https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-october-12-2024/
Debian is updating their release media to 12.7. MX users will see a whole bunch of updates, including a new 6.1 kernel.
MX Tools updates this week:
ddm-mx (24.08.01) * do not remove nvidia firmware while purge operation
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (24.08.06mx23) * ahs/debian 6.10.6 kernel, kapow
live-usb-maker (0.4.13) * encryption usb creation default to luks2, add force=luks1 parameter
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-august-31-2024/
🐧 Linux market share keeps rising | From last month's 4.44% to 4.55% now 💹
◉Share is of course more; Chrome OS is Linux also (Google's Linux but not a Free Desktop type)
◉The "Unknown" category should include much Linux (only user agents hidden)
◉This is true desktop usage (Steam Deck is not used to browse web for most)
►https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
#Linux #Statcounter #marketshare #desktop #Ubuntu #LinuxMint #FedoraLinux #deleteMicrosoft
MX News Week Ending August 24, '24
Debian 11, and therefore our MX 21 “Wildflower” release, have moved into Long Term Support.
That means Debian will basically package security fixes only, but we are still packaging for MX 21.
MX Tools updates:
mx-tweak (24.08.01mx23) * add enable-disable switch for plasma-discover (kde tab)
mx-usb-unmounter (24.09) * Change Enable/Disable Autostart according to situation
* Minor optimizations
* Update translations
* etc
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-august-24-2024/
* AHS firmware updates coming soon (again) *
What happened with the bad update is Debian upstream subdivided their existing firmware packages into many smaller sub-packages, and the depends were not quite right for a straight update on MX.
=> https://mxlinux.org/blog/ahs-firmware-updates-coming-soon-again/
MX Tools updates this week:
* mx-packageinstaller (24.8.07) * Run apt-get –dry-run autoremove as normal user (eliminate’s password at startup)
* mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (24.08.02mx23) * liquorix kernel 6.9.12-2
* mx-apps-fluxbox (24.08.01) * add job-scheduler
* mx-snapshot (24.8) * Add support for ext2 and zfs for temporary work directory * Update translations
And much more => https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-august-10-2024/
MX Tools recent updates:
MX PackageInstaller (24.7.05): Performance improvements for search and filter change.
* Save and restore flatpak repo and user choices
* Make sure all checkboxes are cleared when switching filters for flatpaks
* Fix: don’t update interface when loading Enabled repos in the background
* Wait for displayPackages to finish before updating the interface
* Selected user by default when managing remotes
