The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming MX Linux 25.1 release of this Debian-based distribution featuring Xfce, KDE Plasma, and Fluxbox flavors.

Based on the recently released Debian 13.3 “Trixie” update, MX Linux 25.1 beta is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12.63 kernel on the non-AHS images and the Liquorix-flavored Linux kernel 6.18.4 LTS on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) images and the KDE Plasma edition.

An interesting thing about the upcoming MX Linux 25.1 release is that it brings back dual-init support, which means that both systemd and SysVinit are now included in the ISOs, allowing users to choose the init system they want to boot MX Linux with from the live boot menu of the live system.