MX Service Manager: A new tool in MX Linux 23
Without a doubt, Debian GNU / Linux It is one of the most popular, used and stable mother distributions in the world. Linuxverse. For this reason, many of its daughter Distributions (derived) tend to be just as great and useful. However, not all of them are usually characterized by having their own parcel service, that is, a robust collection of proprietary tools. In addition, original and innovative features and special configurations or adjustments, which really make it worthy of the attention of the Linux Community.
Therefore, a good example of this case is usually the antiX and MX distros. Which include a solid and growing collection of proprietary tools, which in the case of MX Linux are usually called MX Tools (MX Tools). And as today, September 7, 2023, they have announced another useful tool that adds to said collection, whose name is “MX Service Manager”, then we will dedicate this timely publication to getting to know it.
MX Linux is a stable Debian-based lightweight Linux operating system, with the core components of antiX
But, before you start reading this post about this new and useful software tool called “MX Service Manager” and included in the MX Tools, we recommend the previous related post for later reading:
MX Service Manager: A useful service management app
What is MX Service Manager?
According to official announcement from the MX Linux Distribution development team, this new software tool called MXService Manager in English, or MX Service Manager In Spanish, it is described in detail as follows:
A tool to start, stop, enable and disable services. MX Service Manager operates with both systemd and sysVinit and is desktop independent. The tool is currently available through the usual package management solutions and will eventually reach all users through an update to the various mx-apps-* metapackages. This is a relatively advanced tool, but users who are familiar with service management may find the GUI environment convenient for making quick adjustments.
Or in simpler words, this new tool offers us the possibility of make service and daemon management in our GNU/Linux operating system is easier, by providing us more control over what is started at boot time, either a service or a daemon.
Clarifying for the less advanced or experts in Linux that, A service is a program that responds to user commands through a graphical interface or the command line. And therefore, these are essential for a smooth user experience and the operation of other programs. While, A daemon is a program that works silently in the background and serves a very specific purpose. Therefore, they are often used to monitor critical components or provide essential functionality to other processes.
What other proprietary tools does MX Linux currently include?
One of the last applications added to MX Linux 23, the last stable version released, was a call User Installed Packages, in English, or User installed packages in Spanish. However, this tool also available on MX-21.
And your goal is create a file containing a list of packages installed by the user in your operating system. This, with the objective of allowing said file to be opened in another operating system for their installation (packages). Which can be very useful to help users with migration from one major version to another.
For the rest, in the following images you can see what the Tools "User installed packages". In addition, the names of the others "MX Tools" existing and contained within their main window:
Summary
In short, this new tool from the MX Linux team, called “MX Service Manager”, comes without a doubt to simplify the management of charged services in said Distribution. Thus allowing users the power optimize boot services and take full control of your free and open GNU/Linux-based operating system. In this way, you can continue enjoying the simplicity and stability of such a popular and innovative Light Distribution without Systemd.
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