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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who is behind this?

The MaXX Interactive Desktop, also known as MaXXdesktop, is an all volunteer effort led by Eric Masson.


2. Does SGI know you are ripping off their UI?

Not only SGI knew, but they provide us a special  license. Refer to the License page for more details.

 

3. What license is the MaXXdesktop released under?

MaXX is a mix of proprietary, freeware and open source licenses such as the BSD license, GPL, LGPL, MIT and the Open Motif licenses.


4. Proprietary?

Yes for now, because of the license agreement with SGI, Inc. We are in the process of opening up the entire code base, however this will require time, finesse, $$$ and proper execution. All new none SGI derivative code will make their way to our open-source GitLab repositories. However, MaXXdesktop is free, fast and stable.


5. What systems does the MaXXdesktop run on?

Linux x86_64 on Intel/AMD architectures. AARCH64 and RISC-V versions for MaXXdesktop are in the works... A FreeBSD is supported with the Linux Compatibility addon.  We had to drop full-support for the 32bit version, however all the MaXXdesktop libraries could be made available as a separated download if there is solid user-base... 


6. How about OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, & etc?

No plans at the moment, but it shouldn't be too hard once we have time and energy to focus on expanding MaXXdesktop to other Operating Systems.


7. Which Linux distributions are supported?

  • RedHat and Rocky Linux 8 and 9
  • Debian 9 and above
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and above
  • Fedora 28 and above
  • ArchLinux/Manjaro



8. What about Slackware, Gentoo, etc...

These distributions are not supported nor we can confirm that MaXXdesktop works out of the box.  This is  due to a lack of manpower. If you'd like to volunteer to help and test MaXXdesktop on these or other distributions, let us know.

Refer to the contact us page.

 

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