{"id":104637,"date":"2025-12-02T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/av-linux-25-mx-moksha-land-with-enlightenment-desktops-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:58:28","slug":"av-linux-25-mx-moksha-land-with-enlightenment-desktops-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/av-linux-25-mx-moksha-land-with-enlightenment-desktops-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"AV Linux 25, MX Moksha land with Enlightenment desktops \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music manufacturing, every utilizing a special department of the Enlightenment household of desktops.<\/p>\n

The longstanding AV Linux distribution has a new release<\/a>, AV Linux 25, together with a brand new sibling distro known as MX Moksha 25. Each are based mostly on MX Linux 25<\/a>, which appeared in November and is in flip based mostly on Debian 13 “Trixie.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Each editions are based mostly on the newest upstream MX Linux, with the newer 6.15 kernel from the Liquorix project<\/a>. However there’s unhealthy information for individuals who want to keep away from Lennart Poettering’s all-encompassing system administration suite. Because the version 23.5 announcement puts it<\/a>, it makes use of:<\/p>\n

In case you are decided, it’s doable to switch the Debian init system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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MX Moksha’s desktop is shiny, colourful, and pleasant \u2013 and largely devoid of bloat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Though AV Linux solely simply appeared on The Reg<\/em> FOSS desk’s radar, it has been round for a while. It has its personal Wikipedia article<\/a> which traces its improvement again to 2011’s AV Linux 5.0, and the docs for version 5<\/a> say that model 1.0 was based mostly on “Ubuntu 7.10 with Ubuntu Studio’s -rt kernel” and up to date apps constructed from supply, with the media created with Remastersys.<\/p>\n

Since then, there have been\u00a0a couple of dozen releases. As Distrowatch describes<\/a>, it is modified upstream distro just a few occasions: first from Ubuntu to Debian, after which in 2020 to MX Linux. It is switched desktop just a few occasions too, going by way of Xfce and LXDE phases earlier than selecting Enlightenment. AV Linux 25 makes use of Enlightenment 0.27.1, the newest point-release following the January release of Enlightenment 27<\/a>. Enlightenment’s launch numbering system is difficult and just a little complicated \u2013 which we might additionally say of Enlightenment itself. Amongst different complexities, there are two lively forks of older variations of Enlightenment. One among these is utilized in AV Linux’s new child sibling,\u00a0MX Moksha. As a substitute of Enlightenment 27.1, this makes use of the Moksha desktop from Bodhi Linux. Moksha is a seamless fork of Enlightenment 17. The most recent Bodhi Linux 7<\/a> relies on Ubuntu 22.04, so it is fairly outdated now. That makes MX Moksha a simple approach to get this unusual desktop on high of a contemporary underlying distro.<\/p>\n

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