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Midweight Linux OS based on Debian stable. Using core antiX components +additional software created / packaged by the MX community.
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MX Linux week ending news are sad.
Jerry Bond, a core developer (and the lead maintainer of the huge MX Manual amongst many other things) has passed away.
Jerry was known in the MX forum as “jerry3904”. The family is grieving but otherwise OK. Rest in piece.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-december-5-2025/
Jolla: a fresh next-gen phone 🐧📱
Contemplating options for e.g. Your current Google Android device? Here's yet another true Linux answer for a functional daily driver (after Jolla C2).
These devices come with preinstalled SailfishOS; also use Android (APK) apps WITHOUT Google. Your terms✌️
◉ Pre-Order via 99€ (advance voucher)
◉ Full price that case 499€
◉ Jolla C2 is 299€
👉 https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
#Jolla #Phone #smartphone #SailfishOS #deGoogle #APK #Linux #PrivacyFromFinland #Suomi @jolla
New nvidia-driver package (535.216.03-2~mx23ahs) should be hitting AHS repos soon. This version should work with 6.12 kernels without the need for an xorg.conf file.
MX Tools updates this week:
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (25.02.04mx23)
* update liquorix 6.12.16 kernel
* remove budgie (conflicts with xfce 4.20)
plymouth-themes-mx (25.02.01)
* New themes
* MXCreative
* MXIntoFocus
* MXIntoFocusColor
The new themes are in a secondary package, plymouth-themes-mx-extra
Wanna let go of Google on mobile? JOLLA goes rock 'n' rollout mode ⛵ 🐧 📲
The only independent commercial mobile OS entity served Sailfish OS 5 to all supported devices - incl. new Jolla C2 phone (ordered again via fresh batch) 🙂🤳
Next era for Jolla (and mobile realm in general) - upgraded Android app usage WITHOUT Google +much more.
👉 https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish-os-5-0-tampella-is-here/
#Jolla #mobile #Linux #SailfishOS #Android #Tampella #Tampere #PrivacyFromFinland
A new era for Sailfish OS The next chapter of Sailfish OS has arrived. Sailfish OS 5.0 is now rolling out to all supported devices, marking a major milestone with more than 300 improvements of various size & like, over 200 bug fixes, the release of Sailfish Core for the new Jolla Mind2 Personal AI …
📣 Guess what? Linux faster than Windows increasingly | '25 Gaming benchmarks 🐧 🎮
Enjoy the show!
👉 https://youtu.be/D45AknAsIPw
#Linux #gaming #Windows #benchmarks #project2025 #LinuxGaming
If you are interested in helping the fluxbox team work on the mx25 release, there are many opportunities that will be showing up in the forum.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-february-7-2025/
Meta (Facebook) has started deleting comments / posts on Facebook where a well established and beloved Linux site distrowatch.com is mentioned.
Accounts there became flagged as a "danger to cyber security" via Linux and Distrowatch related topics.
Things keep getting funnier and sillier are they not 🙂
Then again - Meta / Facebook is a rusty thing of a past in every sense..
👉 https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews
@distrowatch #Distrowatch #Linux #Facebook #Meta #ban #madness
MX 23.5 Now Available!
MX-23.5 is the fifth refresh of our MX-23 release, consisting of bugfixes, kernel updates, and application updates since our original release of MX-23.
If you are already running MX-23, there is no need to reinstall. Packages are all available through the regular update channels or by installing the changed applications.
Debian 12.8 updates came down the pipe. So new 6.1 kernel, libc6 among other updates.
MX Tools updates:
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (24.11.02mx23)
* update liquorix 6.11 (.6) kernel
mx-tour (24.11.03mx24)
* release Qt version
* runs properly on wayland (KDE)
* no new translations at this time
* add accelerator keys
* scroll tabs with left and right arrows
mx-packageinstaller (24.11)
* Check install recommended depends according to global settings
* Update translations
🧡 Local Communities (LoCo) of Ubuntu Linux are adding up 📈
🇫🇮 Ubuntu Suomi (Finland) joining forces now in more get-together-way locally.
So, Ubuntu enthusiastic Finns please head over to these!
Telegram 👉 https://t.me/linuxubuntusuomi
Discourse 👉 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/ubuntu-fi/265
#Ubuntu #Linux #Finland #Suomi #Discourse #Telegram #LoCo #local #communities @UbuntuSuomi
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