MX News Week Ending October 3, 2026
Key points
The MX Linux weekly roundup for the week ending 3 October 2026 opens with development work on mx-viewer.
- Adrian has put a lot of work into mx-viewer, which began as a quick HTML browser for viewing documents.
- Its original trick was dropping elevated privileges when launched from applications running as root. That is no longer really needed, and the tool has since gained many more features.
- The rest of the week's news is in the full post on the MX Linux blog.
Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.
General News: Adrian has put a lot of work into mx-viewer, which started life as a quick-and-dirty html browser that for viewing documents. It had a special trick of ditching elevated privileges when launched from root applications. That part isn’t really needed anymore, but Adrian has added many features to make it a little more...
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