Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Distribution Release: MX Linux 18.3

https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10567

An updated build of MX Linux, version 18.3, is out. MX Linux is desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian 9.9 and featuring a customised Xfce desktop. The new version is a minor release, bringing updated MX applications and an improved MX manual: "We are pleased to offer MX Linux 18.3 ISO image for your use. MX 18.3 is a refresh of our MX 18 release, consisting of bug fixes and application updates. Updated packages - the latest updates from Debian 9.9 'Stretch', antiX and MX repositories. New and updated mx-apps: mx-installer (based on gazelle-installer) - the installer workflow has been reworked to allow the user to enter system configuration selections while the major system copy is proceeding, speeding up the actual installation time for the user. This is in addition to the encryption cipher options and select-able ESP install location that were previously added. Improvements to the UEFI boot installation routines have been added as well, along with a ton of of other bug fixes. The kernel has been updated to 4.19.37. So-called 'zombieload' patches are included." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-18-3-refreshed-isos-now-available/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/files/Final/MX-18.3/

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Distribution Release: MX Linux 18.2

I was looking at a few of my blog posts and decided to refresh one or two of them. I noticed that I wrote earlier about MX Linux 18.1; knowing that MX Linux 18.2 was released just over a month ago, I thought I'd check out the DistroWatch note.  https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10512

I was both surprised and happy to find that recently MX Linux has leaped to the top of the recent distributions that people have accessed through DistroWatch and here are the results for the past six months as of 5/2/2019:
1 MX Linux 4234>
2 Manjaro 3413<
3 Mint 2212=
4 elementary 1627<
5 Ubuntu 1490>
6 Debian 1282>
7 Fedora 1031=
8 Solus 1022>
9 openSUSE 827=
10 deepin 773=