Basic Traits
- Three Desktop options: Xfce, Plasma, Fluxbox
- Advanced version: “Advanced Hardware Support” (ahs) for support of very recent hardware
- Kernels (secured against known vulnerabilities)
- Foundation
- Debian Stable 11 (Bullseye), augmented by ongoing backports and additions
- Xfce 4.16/KDE 5.20/fluxbox 1.3.7
- antiX live system
- Automatic enabling of most Broadcom drivers
- Increased support for realtek wifi devices
- UEFI installer (64bit & 32bit)
- LUKS encrypted root, home, and swap partition options
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Key Default Applications
The versions listed refer to the date of release; they will be continually upgraded as time goes on.
- Browser: Firefox
- Video Player: VLC
- Music Manager/Player: Clementine
- Email client: Thunderbird
- Office suite: LibreOffice
User Experience
- Stable
- Easy and flexible installation
- Excellent hardware recognition
- Automatic configuration for most users
- One-click change of panel orientation and default theme
- One-click enabling of Event sounds
- Hibernation now enabled by default
- Important applications updated regularly by Community
- Significant upgrades to MX Tools
- MX Tweak now includes tabs for KDE and Fluxbox versions
- Localization for MX apps in many languages
- Great help through expanded video set
- Full Users Manual onboard and online, newly updated to include KDE and Fluxbox versions
- Excellent support on a friendly forum
Tools To Make Common Tasks Easier
Many of these Tools were developed specifically for MX, while some were forked from existing antiX apps or are existing antiX apps; a couple were imported with permission from outside sources.
- Live
Live USB maker
Live-usb kernel updater
Remaster tool
Snapshot - Maintenance
Boot options, now expanded to install grub themes
Boot repair
Cleanup
Disk Manager (its back!)
Menu editor
User manager
Samba-Config (usershare configuration) - Setup
Nvidia driver installer
Codecs installer, now includes updated S3 texture packs
Conky
Network Assistant
Select sound
System sounds
Tweak
Welcome
System keyboard
System locales - Software
Fix GPG keys
Package installer: Popular Applications, Debian Stable and Backports, MX Test, Flatpaks
Repo manager - Utilities
Quick System Info
iDevice Mounter
One-click Extras With Package Installer
The MX Package Installer is fast and has a built-in console. It includes 1) popular applications from the Debian Stable repos; 2) packages brought in from Debian Testing/Sid and properly configured; 3) packages not found in Debian repos at all but pulled from developers’ websites or other distro-specific repos and also properly configured. 4) applications undergoing evaluation in MX Test Repo; 5) Debian Backports; 6) Flatpaks.
- Audio: Audacity, DeaDBeeF, Pithos, Spotify, etc.
- Browser: Palemoon, Qupzilla, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Chrome
- Children: Preschool, Primary, etc.
- Graphics: ImageMagik, Inkscape, GIMP, etc.
- Docks: Docky, Plank, etc.
- Icons: Faba, Moka, etc.
- Language: language packs for Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
- Media Center: Kodi, Plex, etc.
- Messaging: Pidgin, Skype, Zoom, etc.
- Misc: Google Earth, VirtualBox, etc.
- Network: Dropbox, Tor and Privoxy, etc.
- Office: GnuCash, Adobe Reader, Calibre, etc.
- Themes: Adapta, Obsidian1, etc.
- Video: DVDStyler, MPlayer, OpenShot, etc
- Window managers: Budgie Desktop, Compiz, MATE, etc.
Advanced LiveUSB (antiX)
- Many new Live boot options inherited from antiX Linux, all selectable right from the boot menus
- Run in Live mode in 10 languages
- Live kernel upgrader
- Easy Live-remaster to make a custom LiveUSB or your own version to distribute as an ISO
- Three forms of Live persistence (i.e., what files are kept on the LiveUSB): details (video)
- Easy “frugal” installation option
- Simple creation of custom snapshots (as easy as: add/remove packages, change settings, take a snapshot)
- Automatic check of LiveUSB file systems for integrity