Two Hearts
MX Linux is blooming largely in secret. This distribution is best suited for older hardware, but it is also accommodating to those who want many administration tools and scripts.
MX Linux combines the strengths of AntiX and Mepis
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Ljupco Smokovski, 123RF
MX Linux is based on AntiX, which was developed in 2007 from Mepis, which in turn is based on Debian. A circle closes at this point because MX Linux arose out of the cooperative efforts of Mepis and AntiX developers.
Originally, AntiX replaced the KDE used with Mepis by window managers such as IceWM, Fluxbox, and JWM. MX Linux has now put on some weight and sits on Xfce. Debian Stable serves as the foundation, however, a package manager offers numerous backports which install more up-to-date packages. Additionally, MX Linux and AntiX both belong to the small group of distributions that are not yet based on Systemd but rather on SysVinit.
With its Debian foundation and relatively small memory footprint, MX offers a reliable basis for both older and newer hardware. In November of 2015, the development team released MX 14 as Beta 2 [1]. The distribution exists in two versions that are each 1GB in size for 32- and 64-bit computers [2].
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