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antiX Linux is a distro that was initially developed as a lighter version of MEPIS. While antiX has been in continuous development since 2007, MEPIS became unsupported after its chief developer Warren Woodford's circumstances required him to take a fulltime job in industry. As a tribute to MEPIS, anticapitalista and the antiX team developed a distro that has a more robust default install than antiX and they called it MX Linux.

Curmudgeonly, often-nitpicky blogger Dedoimedo AKA fiction author Igor Ljubuncic reports

I [previously] wrote an article on MX Tools, a unique and useful bunch of dedicated utilities packaged with the MX Linux distribution. This toolbox offered the ordinary (or new) MX Linux user a chance to perform some common configuration tasks with easy and elegance.

In general, MX-16 was a great player, and the recent MX-17 is even better--and at a first glance, so is the new version of MX Tools bundled with the system. Good stuff. So I set about testing, to see what has changed, and in what way this set of utilities has improved, if at all. But I'm positive.

[...] MX Tools turned out to be a predictable gem, just as I'd expected. Well, I'm cheating, because I wrote this article after some rather thorough testing. But then, if you look across the wider spectrum of Linux home distributions, there aren't that many unique players with distinctive features. Quite often, it's the rehash of old and familiar with some extra color, polish, and rebranding. MX Linux goes the extra mile (or kilometer, if you will) in making the newbie experience meaningfully different.

Future improvements could potentially include an interactive walkthrough--so users will be actively prompted and helped along in their tasks. Then of course, there's the matter of visual appearance, in the UI itself. But in general, MX Tools TNG is better than we had before. More elegant, more streamlined, better looking, and most importantly, more practical. This is a good and useful toolbox and it makes a solid distro even more appealing. Well worth testing.

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