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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 Linuxmxlinux
2025-12-06

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 โ€œjerry3904โ€. The family is grieving but otherwise OK. Rest in piece.

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linux boosted:
2025-12-06

Jolla: a fresh next-gen phone ๐Ÿง๐Ÿ“ฑ

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 termsโœŒ๏ธ

โ—‰ Pre-Order via 99โ‚ฌ (advance voucher)
โ—‰ Full price that case 499โ‚ฌ
โ—‰ Jolla C2 is 299โ‚ฌ

๐Ÿ‘‰ commerce.jolla.com/products/jo

#Jolla #Phone #smartphone #SailfishOS #deGoogle #APK #Linux #PrivacyFromFinland #Suomi @jolla

MX Linuxmxlinux
2025-03-10

@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.

MX Linuxmxlinux
2025-03-08

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

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linux boosted:
2025-03-08

Wanna let go of Google on mobile? JOLLA goes rock 'n' rollout mode โ›ต ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“ฒ

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) ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿคณ

Next era for Jolla (and mobile realm in general) - upgraded Android app usage WITHOUT Google +much more.

๐Ÿ‘‰ blog.jolla.com/sailfish-os-5-0

#Jolla #mobile #Linux #SailfishOS #Android #Tampella #Tampere #PrivacyFromFinland

MX Linux boosted:
2025-02-11

๐Ÿ“ฃ Guess what? Linux faster than Windows increasingly | '25 Gaming benchmarks ๐Ÿง ๐ŸŽฎ

Enjoy the show!

๐Ÿ‘‰ youtu.be/D45AknAsIPw

#Linux #gaming #Windows #benchmarks #project2025 #LinuxGaming

MX Linuxmxlinux
2025-02-11

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.

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linux boosted:
2025-01-27

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

Then again - Meta / Facebook is a rusty thing of a past in every sense..

๐Ÿ‘‰ distrowatch.com/weekly.php?iss

@distrowatch #Distrowatch #Linux #Facebook #Meta #ban #madness

MX Linuxmxlinux
2025-01-13

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.

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-5-now-a

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-11-12

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

MX Linux boosted:
2024-11-12

๐Ÿงก Local Communities (LoCo) of Ubuntu Linux are adding up ๐Ÿ“ˆ

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Ubuntu Suomi (Finland) joining forces now in more get-together-way locally.

So, Ubuntu enthusiastic Finns please head over to these!

Telegram ๐Ÿ‘‰ t.me/linuxubuntusuomi
Discourse ๐Ÿ‘‰ discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/u

#Ubuntu #Linux #Finland #Suomi #Discourse #Telegram #LoCo #local #communities @UbuntuSuomi

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-11-01

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.

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linux boosted:
2024-11-01

๐Ÿง ๐ŸŒด Linux in Africa is the next big thing โœจ

โ—‰Skill, creativity & enthusiasm is there
โ—‰What to expand now is COOPERATION (Europe, Americas, east...)
โ—‰Potential to be #1 continent OS family is unmatched
โ—‰Old PC's put to work via Linux (where Windows makes 'em "obsolete")
โ—‰๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria (UbuCon, FOSSnaija) / ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa (Ubuntu) / ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya (Tunapanda) already thrive - ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Namibia joins the ranks

Ngazetungue Muheue explains ๐Ÿ‘‰ youtu.be/byPpJW5l6pg?t=23063

#Linux #Africa #UbuntuSummit #FOSS #Namibia #PC

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-10-14

The forum was down recently, but swift work commenced - now back up thanks to good work by our webmaster and forum administrator ๐Ÿ™

MX news from the dev Dolphin Oracle mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-09-01

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

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linux boosted:
2024-09-01

๐Ÿง Linux market share keeps rising | From last month's 4.44% to 4.55% now ๐Ÿ’น

โ—‰Share is of course more; Chrome OS is Linux also (Google's Linux but not a Free Desktop type)
โ—‰The "Unknown" category should include much Linux (only user agents hidden)
โ—‰This is true desktop usage (Steam Deck is not used to browse web for most)

โ–บgs.statcounter.com/os-market-s

#Linux #Statcounter #marketshare #desktop #Ubuntu #LinuxMint #FedoraLinux #deleteMicrosoft

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-08-25

MX News Week Ending August 24, '24

Debian 11, and therefore our MX 21 โ€œWildflowerโ€ 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

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-08-13

* 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.

=> mxlinux.org/blog/ahs-firmware-

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-08-13

MX Tools updates this week:

* mx-packageinstaller (24.8.07) * Run apt-get โ€“dry-run autoremove as normal user (eliminateโ€™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 => mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

MX Linuxmxlinux
2024-07-26

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: donโ€™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

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-

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