The MX Linux team announced today the general availability for download of MX Linux 25.1 as the first update in the MX Linux 25 “Infinity” series of this Debian-based distribution featuring Xfce, KDE Plasma, and Fluxbox flavors.

After a quick, one-week beta testing phase, MX Linux 25.1 is now available for download based on the latest Debian 13.3 “Trixie” operating system and featuring the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel on the standard ISOs and Linux 6.18 LTS on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) ISOs.

The biggest attraction of the MX Linux 25.1 release, compared to MX Linux 25, is the dual-init support, which means that both systemd and SysVinit are now included in the ISO images, allowing users to choose the init system they want to boot MX Linux with from the live boot menu of the live system.

MX Linux 25 shipped with separate ISOs with systemd and SysVinit, so those who installed the MX Linux 25 release with either systemd or SysVinit will have to stay with that init system even after upgrading to MX Linux 25.1. To switch to a different init system, you will have to perform a fresh install.

“While running a live-usb, Semi-automatic persistence saving (for persist_all and persist_root modes where the root is loaded into ram) is not operable at the moment when dual-init is in use. The shutdown console will not accept keyboard input. We are looking into the issue, but for now dual-init systems will fallback to automatic persistence saving if semi-automatic is configured,” said the devs.

Check out the release announcement page for more details about the changes included in this release, from where you can download ISO images with Xfce, KDE Plasma, and Fluxbox. Existing MX Linux 25 users can upgrade their installations to MX Linux 25.1 by running the commands below in the Terminal app.

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

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