I’m running MX 25, based on Debian Trixie. The Liquorix kernel updated to 7.0 yesterday, and everything is fine.
I think Arch etc went to 7.0 within a day of its release, but these folks did a lot more testing before pushing it to the repos.
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I have a version 7+ kernel on MX Linux too, but I got mine by adding the https://liquorix.net/ Liquorix kernel. I specified Sid to make sure to get regular updates, particularly with the security issues over the past week or so.
The only distribution I have right now (installed) that doesn’t have a Version 7+ kernel is Slackware; I also have https://endeavouros.com/ - Endeavour OS, and that also has V7. As of today May 17, 2026, their kernels are at 7.0.8-1-liquorix-amd64 for the Debian ones and the same version 7.0.8 for Endeavour OS.
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Mine’s running Liquorix too. Did the mainline MX get to 7.0 yet?
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I thought someone told me yes but I explicitly add the Liquorix repo I intend to use, so I’m not positive that mainline MX Linux brought in Version 7.0+ of the kernel or not.
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Confrimed. The current mainline MX is on 6.12: https://mxlinux.org/current-release-features/
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That makes sense; both MX and Debian include Version 6.12; to get anything newer requires doing things “on your own”. I do that anyway so I rarely pay much attention to such things.
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I enabled the liquorix kernel immediately upon install, for good gaming performance.
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