MX Linux is a stable Debian-based lightweight Linux operating system, with the core components of antiX
Announced the launch of the new version of MX Linux 23, codenamed “Libretto”, which arrives based on the Debian 12 “bookworm” and MX repositories. This new release integrates a large number of updates in general, as well as bug fixes and more.
For those who are unaware of MX Linux should know that It is an operating system based on stable Debian versions and uses core components of antiX, with additional software created and packaged by the MX community, it is basically an operating system that combines a sleek and efficient desktop with simple configurations, high stability, stable performance, and minimal space. In addition to being one of the few Linux distributions that still provide and maintain support for 32-bit architecture.
The goal declared of the community is “combine a sleek and efficient desk with a simple setup, high stability, solid performance and medium size”. MXLinux tIt has its own repository, its own application installer, as well as original MX specific tools.
Main new features of MX Linux 23 Libretto
This new version of MX Linux 23 "Libretto", as already mentioned at the beginning, one of its main novelties is the base upgrade to Debian 12, along with which system app updates are also integrated. It should be noted that as in previous releases, the sysVinit startup system is still used by default and systemd can be installed as an option.
Another novelty that stands out from this new release are the updates to MX Tools utilities developed by the project and is that now to run with additional privileges, PolicyKit is used instead of mx-pkexec with separate configurations for each application.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that a new application "User Installed Packages" to create a file with a list of installed applications by the user, which can be used to automate the installation of the same applications on another system or after upgrading the distribution to a new major version.
It is also worth noting that the settings to load boot options from snapshots in the MX Snapshot utility, as well as hidden settings that can prevent the created live system from starting on another computer.
On the other hand, it is mentioned that they added a lots of new settings for the user environment based on Fluxbox, as well as special appfinder settings for rofi (replacing xfce4-appfinder), plus theme settings for Xfce and Fluxbox added to the MX-Tweak utility.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new release.
- User environments updated to Xfce 4.18, Fluxbox 1.3.7 and KDE Plasma 5.27.
- KDE/Plasma received several configuration tweaks to deal with the new configuration options available in plasma 5.27. Root actions remain in dolphin, including root dolphin instances via root service menu actions.
- To work with sound, instead of the pulseaudio sound server, the Pipewire media server and the WirePlumber sound session manager are used.
- An option has been added to the boot menu of live builds to verify media integrity.
- For the visually impaired, the orca screen reader and a utility for magnifying selected areas of the screen are included.
- MX-Updater provides the ability to use nala as a package installation backend instead of apt.
By default, the UFW firewall is enabled for packet filtering. - Translation/localization has been improved overall, with many new languages added.
finally if you are interested in knowing more about it about this new released version of MX Linux, you can check the details In the following link.
Download and test MX Linux 23
For those who are interested in testing this version of the distribution, you should know that the images available for download are 32-bit and 64-bit builds (1,8 GB, x86_64 , i386 ) with the Xfce desktop, as well as 64-bit builds (2,2 .1,7 GB) with the KDE desktop and minimal builds (XNUMX GB) with the fluxbox window manager. The link is this.
As already mentioned, if you already have an older version of MX Linux 21 installed, you can also perform a simple update to get the latest version, using the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade