Debian released its version 12.2, or rather, a new ISO image with that numbering for new installations a little over a week ago. Debian has several outstanding students, among which Ubuntu must always be mentioned, but one of the best seen that respects its base the most is the one that currently occupies number 2 on DistroWatch. And today they have given us a new image, that of MX Linux 23.1.
Being a point update, the code name remains the same, "Libretto." Those who occasionally play a game with video game emulators may have their eyes tricked and think that it has the same name as the company behind RetroArch, but no; that one is called LibRetro. Continuing with the news that concerns us, what follows is to write the list of new features that have arrived with MX Linux 23.1 (or just MX-23.1).
Most notable new features of MX Linux 23.1
- Basado en Debian 12.2., and includes almost 200 improvements in the form of fixes and security patches.
- New and updated applications.
- All kernels have been updated. The major version in Xfce and Fluxbox have been updated with the latest Linux kernel version 6.1. The advanced hardware support, whose acronym is AHS and would correspond to the HWE used by Ubuntu, uses the Linux 6.5 kernel. KDE also uses 6.1.
- Updates to the installer that fix swapfile, hibernation and improvements to the OEM installation.
- The KDE version includes an updated SDDM init script that eliminates "rebooting" the SDDM at sysVinit boot.
- The Fluxbox version has a new keybinding reference script that displays hotkeys by default.
MX Linux 23.1 it can be downloaded en this link, where the notes for this release are also found. It is in 32 and 64-bit versions, in Xfce, KDE (32-bit only) and Fluxbox.