MX Linux 21.0 - USB

Version 21.0 release date:  October 21, 2021

NOTE: This distro comes on a USB Flash Drive. Please ensure that your system has USB 2.0 + ports before ordering. Distro will come on a name brand USB 3.0 drive that is backwards compatible with USB 2.0.

MX Linux relies on the excellent upstream work by Linux and the open-source community, deploying Xfce4 as Desktop Environment on top of a Debian Stable base. We draw from the core antiX system and include work and ideas used by Warren Woodford for his MEPIS project. Ongoing backports and outside additions to our repos serve to keep components current with developments.

Things that are new in MX-21:

• Debian 11 “bullseye” base
• New and updated applications.
• New installer partition selection/management area, including some lvm support if lvm volume exists already and the ability to set existing data partitions to be mounted on install.
• New UEFI live system boot menus. UEFI live users can now select your live boot options (persistence, etc…) from the boot menu and submenus rather than using the previous console menus.
• Xfce 4.16, Plasma 5.20, fluxbox 1.3.7 with mx-fluxbox 3.0 configs
• User password (sudo) for admin tasks by default. You can switch this in mx-tweak->Other tab.
• MX-Tour showing an overview of each desktop environment
• Translation updates!
• MX-Comfort default theming, including dark variants and “thick border” Xfwm variants.
• Mesa vulkan drivers are installed by default
• Better realtek wifi support
• A ton of customization and custom scripts in MX-Fluxbox

-antiX live system changes

• UEFI Live boot menus
• Extra “rollback” boot option now exposed in menus
• The live system will likely not boot on systems with secure boot enabled (at least for now…)