MX Linux is a cooperative venture between the antiX and MX Linux communities. It is a family of operating systems that are designed to combine elegant and efficient desktops with high stability and solid performance. MX’s graphical tools provide an easy way to do a wide variety of tasks, while the Live USB and snapshot tools inherited from antiX add impressive portability and remastering capabilities. Extensive support is available through videos, documentation and a very friendly Forum.
Origin
MX Linux began in a discussion about future options among members of the MEPIS community in December 2013. Developers from antiX then joined them, bringing the ISO build system as well as the Live-USB/DVD technology. The name “MX” was chosen to combine the first letter of Mepis with the last of antiX, thus symbolizing their collaboration. In order to be listed on DistroWatch, MX Linux was presented as a version of antiX and released its first version in March of 2014.
Why do we do it?
When Warren Woodford decided to stop developing Mepis in 2012 some of us at Mepislovers decided we needed a replacement that felt similar (a lot of us had distro-hopped before we found Mepis and didn’t want to settle for the other options available) and nobody was going to build it for us, so, with a lot of help from the antiX team (antiX was originally spun off from Mepis about the time I discovered it) we did it ourselves.
So we tend our creation for each other and all our users, and some of those users find they feel the same way we did and join us to try to keep improving MX. For some it’s a hobby, for some it’s paying it forward to the free software community that has given us so much, for some it’s a labor of love. And while none of us do it for the money, the donations do help because hosting this website and the MX repositories and the rsync servers to sync the third party mirrors do cost money which those donations cover.
