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MX Linux Fluxbox Respin Officially Released for Raspberry Pi

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 22 2021, @01:45PM   
from the Does-it-require-flux-capacitors? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

MX Linux Fluxbox Respin Officially Released for Raspberry Pi - 9to5Linux:

The MX Linux team announced today the release and general availability of the MX Linux Fluxbox Community Respin for Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

Initially announced in January 2021, the MX-Fluxbox Raspberry Pi respin is MX Linux's first release for the tiny Raspberry Pi devices. As its name suggests, it uses the ultra-lightweight Fluxbox window manager by default and, just like MX Linux, it's based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" software repositories.

[...] If you want to run MX Linux on your Raspberry Pi computer, you can download MX-Fluxbox Raspberry Pi "Ragout" 21.02.20 right now from the release announcement page. Meanwhile, you can check out my first look article to see it in action and learn about what works and what doesn't.

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• Re:not infected, too Re:not infected, too (Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Monday February 22 2021, @08:10PM (4 children)

  by gawdonblue (412) on Monday February 22 2021, @08:10PM (#1116133)

  It it? Or does it always ship with systemd and you have the choice of using either full systemd or SysV init with systemd-shim.
  Perhaps you're thinking of MX's sister distro Antix?

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• Re:not infected, too Re:not infected, too (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 22 2021, @10:50PM (1 child)

  by Freeman (732) on Monday February 22 2021, @10:50PM (#1116225) Journal

  Sounds like they're going with the option of, more choice is better.

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  Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

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  • Re:not infected, too (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 22 2021, @11:00PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday February 22 2021, @11:00PM (#1116230) Journal

    Here's the missing link from my post above: https://mxlinux.org/blog/about-mx-19-and-systemd [mxlinux.org]

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

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• Re:not infected, too Re:not infected, too (Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday February 23 2021, @01:17AM (1 child)

  by bart9h (767) on Tuesday February 23 2021, @01:17AM (#1116267)

  You're right, you have the option to install systemd on MX.

  But I would still call it not infected (as it's not mandatory and not even default) and systemd-free (since you are free to choose not to install and use it).

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  • Re:not infected, too (Score: 3, Interesting) by gawdonblue on Tuesday February 23 2021, @08:52PM

    by gawdonblue (412) on Tuesday February 23 2021, @08:52PM (#1116597)

    It appears systemd is always installed on MX so that it's libs are available for any apps that want them. You just get a choice of whether to use it or SysV for init.

    So MX is still infected, users just get a choice whether systemd is injected directly into its brain or whether the disease is just lurking somewhere in its bowels, ready to metastasise.

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