October 5, 2021
MX-21 series RC1 iso images for testing
–direct downloads:
Xfce Desktop
32 bit Xfce with debian standard 5.10 kernel sha256_checksum md5_checksum signature
64 bit Xfce with debian standard 5.10 kernel sha256_checksum md5_checksum signature
KDE/Plasma Desktop
64 bit KDE/plasma with Debian standard 5.10 kernel sha256_checksum md5_checksum signature
MX-fluxbox
32 bit Fluxbox with Debian standard 5.10 kernel sha256_checksum md5_checksum signature
64 bit Fluxbox with Debian standard 5.10 kernel sha256_checksum md5_checksum signature
MX-21 RC1 is now available for testing. MX-21 is built from debian-bullseye and MX repositories.
Things that are new in MX-21 RC1:
New and updated applications.
New installer partition selection area, including some lvm support if lvm volume exists already
New UEFI live system boot menus. Now you can select your live boot options (persistence, etc…) from the boot menu and submenus rather than using the previous console menus.
Xfce 4.16, Plasma 5.20, fluxbox 1.3.7 with mx-fluxbox 3.0 configs
User password (sudo) for admin tasks by default. You can switch this in mx-tweak->Other tab.
Many many bugfixes since beta2.
Changes with RC1
All releases: updated installer and live system to latest versions. Many translation updates. The live menus now include special features like rollback options for remasters gone wrong. In addition, we added the mesa vulkan drivers to the default package set. New “mx-comfort” themes are also in use. Better support for some realtek wifi parts. Debian security repo enabled by default. gtk3-nocsd removed from default feature set.
Xfce isos: Updated Xfce packages to latest bug fix releases. Added thunar samba shares plugin (accessible via a folder’s properties dialog in thunar). Updated docklike plugin. Add “thick” variants for xfwm4 mx-comfort themes.
KDE/plasma iso: fix for dolphin file manager crash issues when “Save desktop changes” was utilized during install. various improvements to default settings. New mx-comfort color schemes as part of the MX global themes.
Fluxbox isos: updates to many of the mxfb-accessories scripts, improved localization, general configuration changes. Auto updating menus on package installation. Captions on by default on desktop, and additional pre-configured panel setups. New mx-comfort fluxbox styles.
Feedback for testing should be via forum post:
MX-21_rc1 feedback thread (Xfce)
MX-21_fluxbox_rc1 feedback thread
Be sure to include proper system data, including the output of quick-system-info.
If posting nvidia-installer (ddm-mx) issues, please post the contents of /var/log/ddm.log.
If posting remaster issues, please include the contents of /var/log/live/live-remaster.log
If posting installer issues, please include the contents of /var/log/minstall.log
If posting issues with MX-PackageInstaller “Popular Apps”, please post contents of /var/log/mxpi.log or /var/log/mxpi.log.old (whichever contains the log of your issue).
Thank you!
Dolphin Oracle (on behalf of the MX Dev Team)
i just install beta 2 just few hours back, hehe do i need a fresh install or just some few command at terminal to get the RC1? TIA
I would do a fresh install, it may be covered in updates but then again it might not. Beta 2 to RC1 is quite a jump and considering the quick install time, you might as well go for it.
You should do a fresh install.
Boa noite!?
MX-21 RC1 caso for instalado eu posso atualizar para proxima versão MX-21 RC2 etc,etc..?
Poderia incluir o ( iommu junto ao grub ) pois em todas as versões do Grub tenho que editalo pois tenho Placa mãe GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P (rev. 1.0) rev. 2.x
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”iommu=soft”
I don’t find ‘disk-manager’ in the new version, which prevents me from mounting the drive easily. The application that replaces it is?
The desktop brightness can’t be adjusted by clicking the power icon on the panel, how should I adjust the brightness?
‘system-config-samba’ can’t be found either, how can I quickly set the samba user and password?
I am using xfce version
I found a solution to the desktop brightness problem
Would you share your solution?
caja
If you followed the Beta feedback threads you would know that disk-manager and system-config-samba have been abandoned the actual developers of these apps and they aren’t available in any new Distros.
The MX team said they are working on recreating them, be patient.
I have installed mx 21 rc1, i have notice htop and conky manager RAM use not match properly, kindly resolve this issue.
They never match exactly with any distro.
Now i am using mx 19.4 xfce as daily drive and htop and conky combination is perfect almost same every time, but mx 21 now rc1 htop use 598mb and conky show 934mb!
Conky has changed to a new calculus of Memory usage, since versions 1.11.6 and 1.12.2.
htop changed later, with version 3.1.0.
inxi, neofetch, screenfetch are changing too.
Meanwhile, non-RR distros, such as Debian stable, may keep incompatible versions of some of theese tools.
Here, the situation until last week – with a Translate button at the top of right column, for desktop screens:
https://byteria.blogspot.com/2020/10/conky-wrong-ram-memory-usage.html
If I install rc1 will I have to reinstall mx linux when mx21 becomes the current release?
No; it will be possible to update, perhaps with some user intervention.
Blue box outside each window
Switching to system-locales does not update the name of the user folder.
The blue box is probably by design.
Please report your system-locales problem on the forum; mostly the devs won’t see it here. Remember to include Quick System Info.
Thank you for your reply。
Border themes can be set in ‘tweak’ This is what’s new in MX21
Fluxbox version booting from USB stick looks good, in fact it’s probably the best implementation of it I’ve seen on any distro – well done :o)
I don’t need to go this lightweight on any of my machines but I’d happily install it (and will) on some of the older ones before passing them on.
compiz-инвалид на 50%
Suspend in both 19 and 21 kde are flakey on my Sony viao i3 330m. System is super slow and takes a long time to suspend after lid is closed, sometimes dosnt even suspend especially in 21 kde.
Sharing folders not as easy nor successful as mx19 xfce/kde (19 kde Samba woes so I upgraded to kde on xfce, perhaps do a kde spin off from your xfce as Samba utility works good, or perhaps it’s bugs in kde in its self)
Kde-21 RC1 Secure boot fails on install…says all bootable devices failed verification….
mx does not support secure boot.
Those forum feedback links must be invisible since people post their feedback here rather than in the forum threads set up specifically for feedback. LOL
does the Flux version include all the bloat(for me), Office etc by default… ?
I remember someone here did unofficial “debloated” version.. hopefully it will case with this version too…
cheers
there are a lot of things left off the fluxbox iso. whether it still qualifies as bloat for you I can’t say, but things like thunderbird, libreoffice, and some other stuff is not present on the fluxbox iso.
Shame, really – despite several contributions, suggestions, close inspection of BIOS settings, notably CSM, once again v21RC1 also fails to install at 95% complete with message to fix GRUB from .iso disc/MXTools on many of my machines, old & new, Intel & AMD, all video chips, etc. I reported this several months ago on the Forum. My previous trick of GRUB “re”-install from rebooted .iso followed by (third) .iso disc reboot and GRUB repair from MXTools now also fails. One commentator suggests that ‘re-install’ and ‘repair’ cannot work because the .iso disc does not recognise the uncompleted previous failed installation for what it is. One punter suggests using two machines, one to update the files (esp. on the .iso, re-burn with latest kernel) swap back to machine with 95% installed files and use GRUB Tools from this. All very convoluted.
Reading some third party reviews of MX highlights rather more disgruntled putative users, esp. with the GRUB failure feature than anticipated or expected. Comments about the uncoordinated efforts of many contributors to the genre abound.
Real shame – no good just recording claimed ‘SOLVED’ entries in the Forum. Just please fix this glaringly obvious shortcoming and the world will be at your feet…maybe.
Just wondering if MXLinux use’s secure boot, I have persisted and tried installing it 3 times but it always fails, really disappointed. No I wont be turning it off in the bios as its part of my security setup.
To the anonymous guy, some people don’t want to have to jump through hoops joining a forum just to ask a simple question…surely you have nothing better to do!
no it doesn’t use secure boot.
Thanks very much for your reply Dolphin, I will try and replicate Debian to make it similar to MX. I might add your repo and pull down your tools in a vm and see how it goes.
cheers and thanks again.
Hello from Ukraine 🙂
MX – the world’s best team and created the world’s best Debian for users)))
Your MX Tools are great)))
I look forward to LTS version)))
hi all,
when is the final release expected to be published?
can i upgrade from the rc1 to the final easily or do i need a feesh reinstall?
can you still boot with or without systemd as in ver. 19 ?
thx
Installed Fluxbox RC1 on Monday coming from beta2, kept my home directory using the installer cannot believe how straightforward it was. Booted into RC1 and everything was there ready to go from the previous install, just had to add my own favourite apps and all is good, stable and solid.
Thanks for your hard work.
I have a dual boot system, with Windows 10/MX Linux 19.4. Soon, Windows 10 will be upgraded to Windows 11 on my PC. Windows 11 requires secure boot to be on in the BIOS, but MX Linux does not support secure boot, and therefore the BIOS setting needs to be off. How will I be able to dual boot in the future?
I red that it will be possible to disable the need of secure boot for win 11. So it might be nö problem. I hope. I don’t like secure boot.
Hi, thank you for updates 🙂
Is MX 21 based on Debian 11?
si debian bullseye quindi la versione 11
I am using the KDE version.
Using sudo in terminal does not draw output any window. For example “sudo conky” will not display the conky window, but “conky” display it just fine.
And this is true of everything else, and I really need to run the matlab installer as sudo otherwise it can’t install the program.
Am I just missing something, like disabled drawing windows for sudo? or something silly like this…
MX21 RC1 does not boot from live USB on either of my Mac Minis (64 GB 2018 I7, 16 GB 2012 I5). MX19.4 (July) and previous versions boot without problems. I have been running MX live for years on these devices.
Hey, I have just one question do we have to reinstall this after the stable version of mxlinux21 will be released? Or we can just update it using terminal?