It ships with Xfce 4.12.3 and Linux kernel 4.13 by default

Dec 16, 2017 17:18 GMT  ·  By

The development team behind the Debian-based antiX MX operating system released the final images of antiX MX-17 for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.

Powered by Linux kernel 4.13 and using Xfce 4.12.3 as default desktop environment, antiX MX-17 comes six months after the antiX MX-16 release and promises to bring all the latest security patches and software update from the software repositories of the recently released Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 "Stretch" operating system.

The MX variant ships with all the antiX live features, including persistence up to 20GB, and automatic selection of appropriate drivers for most Broadcom wireless chipsets with minimal user intervention. Being targeted at low-end computers, antiX MX-17 offers a 32-bit PAE kernel for machines with less than 4GB RAM.

Here's what's new in antiX MX-17

Various improvements have been implemented to several of the in-house built tools, such as a larger interface for mx-tools' dashboard, simpler editing of conky files in mx-conky, and new themes in mx-updater. The mx-snapshot, mx-tweak, mx-network-assistant, and mx-iDevice-mounter utilities have also been updated.

antiX MX-17 features the latest open source applications, including the Mozilla Firefox 57.0.2 Quantum web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 52.5 email and news client, LibreOffice 5.4.1 office suite, VLC Media Player 2.7 video player, Clementine 1.3.1 audio player, Xfce4 Terminal 0.8.3 terminal emulator, and LuckyBackup 0.4.9 backup tool.

This release also ships with the MX Package Installer tool, which lets users install the Liquorix kernel or the Linux 4.9 LTS kernel of Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system series, as well as packages from the Debian Stable, Debian Testing and Debian Sid repositories, and third-party, proprietary apps.

Among other changes, antiX MX-17 brings themeable notifications via Notifications panel in Xfce Settings, additional translations to mx-manual, nine new localizations for Thunar's custom actions menu, as well as cli-aptiX and neofetch tool pre-installed. You can download antiX MX-17 right now from our website.