MX Linux 25.2, includes key updates such as a refreshed Raspberry Pi edition, a new text-mode installer, and the distribution’s unique dual-boot capability that allows users to easily choose between the systemd and SysVinit init systems:
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Hey! Somebody recognizes one of my favored distributions!
At one time, the predecessor to MX Linux, “Simply MEPIS”, was what I used when I wanted to have at least one STABLE, straightforward, reliable distribution that I could count on. That was because I also used a distribution called Sidux; it was a nicely packaged implementation of Debian Sid, but on occasion something might happen, that’s a primary reason why I had something to count on. MEPIS was it, but as time went by I liked it because it was perhaps the leanest KDE implementation available (kinda like Trinity’s ancient KDE remake is today).
Alas, Warren Woodford found a legal firm, or somewhere else, willing to pay six figures (or more) for his expertise, so in the middle of a work toward a MEPIS in 2012 (2011 was the last REAL MEPIS release) all of that went away.
It took another year before MX Linux arrived in 2013. Guess who helped the former MEPIS Lovers Forum members create what is now MX Linux?
It was the same person, Paul Banham, a.k.a. anticapitalista, who brought antiX to the attention of MEPIS users back in 2007, that helped MX Linux get going. He helped them get a kernel and tools in place, then gave them the framework to continue the work themselves. Adrian was one of the guys I knew from MEPIS that did and does a lot of the work today. I didn’t really know Dolphin Oracle back then, but I do now. A guy named Jerry was handling their project management; I’d have to review their forum, but I know a few others; I just don’t work with them regularly any more so I don’t remember everyone, but this is a VERY GOOD desktop based distribution. If you want or need a desktop environment instead of just a window manager, this would be my number one recommendation; if you can live with JUST a window manager I’d go with antiX; my other historical choice would be the ancient classic, Slackware! I run a Slackware CURRENT setup using slackpkg that still works reliably; it isn’t super exciting; it’s just super steady, just like MX Linux. I actually have BOTH KDE Plasma and Xfce on Slackware; moreover I have both X11 and Wayland available; haven’t had a lot of interest so far in Wayland, but it’s “there” in case I get curious.
Anyway, for anyone not too familiar with distributions, this is a nice, safe place to start - MX Linux.
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