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* A spare account for the main mastodon.social one * (that instance seems unpredictable on censorship and also communication between many other larger instances is not working or appears to be blocked).

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Midweight Linux OS based on Debian stable. Using core antiX components +additional software created / packaged by the MX community.

Official websitehttps://mxlinux.org/
Main Mastodon account @ Mastodon.socialhttps://mastodon.social/@mxlinux

@Suiseiseki You seem to have your own depiction of freedom. Even MX Linux is not 100% free in your view. The demands for freedom of your understanding (or rather ideology) is not possible in means of a working system for great many use cases yet.

Your ranting about these things all over the place that we all are aware in these circles is most possibly not helping but rather harming Linux and free software movement.

@Linux Maybe in not that distant future GSP equipped NVIDIA cards can "just work" out of the box nicely on basically every distro. A win for regular users on Nvidia for sure. NOVA appears Red Hat's attempt to create a driver that only working with GSP and "Turing" GPU cards while leaving Nouveau to the previous cards.

Nvidias open kernel driver seems to work in parity with the closed source one: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-555-open

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products.

Linux kernel 6.13 hitting our AHS repos soon. Liquorix version for now. Lots of driver updates in process or in repo for the rollout of 6.13 kernels.

A new plymouth-themes-mx-extra package is available in repo with some new animated themes based around the mx logo. Check ‘em out. Mx-boot-options makes it easy to change your plymouth themes.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-march-7-2025/

#MXLinux #news

Have you installed one version of MX Linux only to want to try a different desktop?

Jerry Bond / MX Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T19Hy93kEHg

Easily switch MX Linux versions

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MX Service Manager: a new mx-tool!

A new MX tool is now available in the repositories for MX 21 and MX 23.

►MX Service Manager is a tool for starting, stopping, enabling and disabling services.

►MX Service Manager operates with both systemd and sysVinit and is desktop-agnostic.

=> https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-service-manager-a-new-mx-tool

#MX #Linux #ServiceManager #tools #sysVinit #systemd

MX Service Manager: a new mx-tool. – MX Linux

::: Visually challenged Linux users!

Even blind can see; visually impaired Linux users keep facing unnecessary struggle.

Possible answer? Accessible Coconut.

Ever heard about it? Right.

This OS from INDIA aims to help visually impaired. Rudra Saraswat (Ubuntu Unity) is from that innovative new superpower of IT, too.

Before, to think it, it was FINLAND with its IRC, Erwise, Linux, SSH, MySQL, Nokia, SMS (Matti Makkonen), Polar wireless wearables (1977), list goes on..

Accessible Coconut deserves attention for sure. Indian devs truly care & think broadly.

Please, help if able / spread word 🙏

=> https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut

#Accessible #Coconut #visually #impaired #Linux #special #needs #help #developers #fundraiser #blind #users #Zendalona #India

Accessible Coconut | Zendalona

Linux 6.0 kernel now available in our ahs repo.

If you use the realtek, broadcom, virtualbox, or nvidia packages, you'll probably need to update those too.

Pine64: PinePhone Pro.

A new flagship Linux smartphone!

A more polished Linux smartphone powered by a Rockchip hexa-core 1.5GHz SoC, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 128GB of eMMC storage, 13MP / 5MP cameras +a Corning Gorilla Glass 4 display.

The default OS is Manjaro Linux / KDE Plasma Mobile, but expect support by most of the operating systems already available for the original PinePhone.

What do YOU think? Will you pre-order?

==> https://youtu.be/wP2-6Z74W44
#Pine64 #PinePhone #Pro #smartphone #Linux

Meet the PinePhone Pro | PINE64

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MX-21: Installation video series by Dolphin Oracle.

--Whole disk installation:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JX5YJ58YoQ8

--Installation with partitions:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Xz4GJO9Bo

--Installation on btrfs: https://youtu.be/Rq06PCvJLt0

Do a "Regular" Install of MX-21

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New video released: "MX-21 Fluxbox: what's new (Part 1)" https://youtu.be/Dljk2FxBV_U
MX-21 Fluxbox: what's new (Part 1)?

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