MX Linux

Debian’s latest update to their 6.1 kernels for the debian 12/mx23 series made a change that prevents our realtek dkms drivers from building.

General News: October Snapshots for Xfce and KDE are up on sourceforge.

Papirus Folder Colors enables the creation of new icon themes with differently colored folder icons based on the Papirus icon theme.

General News: Lite news week this week.

This tool greatly simplifies the process of changing the package repositories that are use for updating/upgrading and installation.

GUI program for installing .deb files.

MX Theme Colors enables users to edit the highlight colors of the MX Matcha and MX Ease themes and save these as a new theme.

Chroot Rescue Scan allow you to get into a system even if its initrd.img is broken.

This application offers several easy cleaning actions to help increase/maintain free disk space.

General News: Adrian has put a lot of work into mx-viewer, which started life as a quick-and-dirty html browser for viewing documents.

MX Boot Repair is a GUI app that can be used to recover from boot failure.

The “Firewall Configuration” is a GUI app (gufw) used for the configuration of the “Uncomplicated Firewall”, aka UFW.

General News: MX 25.3 is up and out.

Before installing Wine – go to the WineApp Database and search for the program you want to install.

MX Service Manager is a tool for managing services and daemons, allowing the user to control which are started at boot time.

Introduction Disk Manager is a simple file system GUI configuration tool that allows you to: The tool has been out of development since 2011, but MX Linux took over the project with permission from the original developer because it remains a handy way to…

MX Linux has the Open Printing printer driver support (openprinting-ppds) installed by default.

Introduction SWAP is disk space used for Virtual Memory.

Here are the mirrors of MX Linux ISOs that are known to us.

MX-25.3 is now available.

General News: We are in process of updating official release media, target for release is September 20.

Recently updated!

MX Locale allows the user to perform localization functions via a gui selection process.

This app is a scheduling utility which uses crontab as the backend.

Firstly Timeshift is just a frontend for rsync but with a few additions.

The default configuration of MX Fluxbox is the “enhanced” mode, characterized by the use of the tint2 panel and a large number of GUI features.

General News: The forum continues to be hammered by a DDOS attack.

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General News: Well this has been quite a week.

mxrepo.com should be coming back up.

Our servers that host the repos at mxrepo.com (Salt Lake City) went down last nite and they have not come back up.

Since we’ve been putting reminders in the last few Weekly News posts, this should not come as a surprise, but it’s the end of the road for support for MX 21.

General News: August snapshots are up.

MX Linux ISO files to be downloaded have been signed by the appropriate lead developer.

Introduction Gnome-keyring is installed by default in MX Linux, and is used to manage security credentials, such as user names and passwords.

Though most scanners will work out of the box, there are occasionally problems that arise.

Setting up MX Linux or antiX with MATE as DE based on a post by skidoo on antiX Forum The MATE (pronounced Ma-Tay) Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2.

In MX Linux, its easy to check the integrity of downloaded ISO files.

NOTE: this is the base English version.

Tool for verifying signed ISO files.

MX Live-USB Maker This app creates a live-usb from an iso-file, another live-usb, a live-cd/dvd or a running live system.

General News: August snapshots are up.

WSDD-native allows your Linux PC to be discovered by Windows 7 through Windows 11 PCs and displayed in the Windows Explorer “Network Neighborhood” folder view.

MX Updater monitors your MX Linux system for available package updates and shows a tray icon reflecting the current status.

General This application has 6 tabs.

This guide attempts to start from the simplest of fixes and then progresses gradually to more complex processes.

Bluetooth is a method for moving data over short distances using wireless.