14 DAY TRIAL // Following on the footsteps of the recently released antiX 17 GNU/Linux operating system, the development of the antiX MX 17 distribution is now officially open with the first beta out the door.
antiX MX is an open source GNU/Linux distro based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system and built around the lightweight Xfce desktop environment. Its development schedule is different than that of the big brother antiX and includes additional software packaged by the MX community.
Development of antiX MX 17 is, of course, based on antiX 17 "Heather Heyer," which was released two weeks ago, on October 24, 2017, and the first beta milestone is now available for public testing, incorporating all the latest upstream updates from the software repositories of Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch."
Here's what's new in antiX MX 17 Beta 1
Besides shipping with all the latest Open Source technologies included in the antiX 17 operating system, the antiX MX 17 Beta 1 release brings Linux 4.9.0-4 kernels for all supported platforms, including 64-bit and 32-bit PAE, removes the non-PAE installation image, and updates several apps to their latest versions.
It ships with the LibreOffice 5.4.1 office suite, adds the FeatherPad plain-text editor written in Qt and featuring a tabbed interface and code markup as a replacement for Leafpad, and includes the gThumb image viewer instead of the Shotwell and Mirage combination, which can still be installed from mx-packageinstaller.
The applications menu was updated as well in this release to allow users better organize items with the all-new mx-tools submenu. Also, several new and updated mx-apps are included in antiX MX 17 Beta 1, such as mx-tweak as a replacement for mx-defaultlook and mx-network-assistant as a replacement for mx-broadcom-manager.
On the other hand, mx-conky was updated to offer users a simpler method for editing conky files, and mx-tools just got a bigger interface. Also updated is the apt-notifier update manager, which now ships with new themes. antiX MX 17 Beta 1 also comes with pre-packaged Conky configurations, as well as new icons and artwork.
You can download the antiX MX 17 Beta 1 installation images for 64-bit and 32-bit architectures right now from our website. However, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, which means that it's not suitable for deployment in production environments.