What does the new Mx Logo Actually Say?

[adamofbremen]

Hi everyone

I'm new to Mx Linux, I came from Mint and am very pleased to have made the switch. I'm also new to the logo, and I read about it's creation in the forum.

Now, what an image actually says, in the mind of the viewer, is an interesting topic. I am going to share my own thoughts on the Mx Linux image, that it said to me as a complete newcomer to it's look and feel. I hope others will tell what it says to them. Here goes ...

First impression is, its a knife being sharpened. The knife is the thick bit and the sharpener the thin bit. That's pretty obvious. Keeping knives sharp is a symbol for making sure our tools are lean mean and ready for action.

It says "Minimal" - the logo is only what is required, there is no extra fancy stuff.

The logo makes an X. An x means "NO!" - yet, no what? ... here are my ideas ...

No Mountains in Linux - and plenty of other distributions are mountains the way of progress.

No Eclipse - which means - No Dark Side - an Eclipse is generally regarded as a Bad Sign. The X makes it good. That's interesting ...

No Clouds! That's one for me personally - I Hate the Cloud. I am doing everything I can to help everyone get off the cloud. Remember that song - "Hey Hey You You ..."

Now here's a controversial one - No Rainbow! Nuff said

I leave the rest for you.

[richb]

Not even close. MX Linux evolved from Mepis, a Warren Woodford creation. He has indicated the word Mepis had no significant meaning, but it does resemble Memphis the ancient Egyptian city. So its logo became two pyramids with arising Sun or perhaps Moon. When that distro was no longer developed MX Linux was created by users. So the current logo is reminiscent of that Mepis logo. Two triangles reminiscent of pyramids and the circle as the moon. The angles of the "pyramids" form an M while the rectangular elements for an X.

What does it say? Nothing in particular.

[Eadwine Rose]

If you are convinced it is a bad sign, you can always move on. I do think you've got a rich imagination.

[Adrian]

It says and stands for "MX".

[asqwerth]

https://mxlinux.org/about-us/

see above for History. You can see where the M and X came from.

Mepis logo (and screenshot of old Mepis desktop!):

https://images.pling.com/img/00/00/01/8 ... 3129-1.png

[Freja]

I'll try tell you design intention this time.

Today's MX logo called "Traditional Heavy Eclipse(T.H.E)".

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Basically, "Mepis original logo + antiX's X = T.H.E."

Yes, Eclipse having mean of "not good sign", moon hides the sun. but,
boot animation shows "Shining X motif". Yes, this X means true shine(true sun rather than the sun).
Shining X rise from Mepis mountain. its expresses MX history.
If not exists moon, shining X can not exists.

[Eadwine Rose]

@Freja You just dug up a replied-to-already old topic.

[Freja]

@Eadwine Rose
“What does the new Mx Logo Actually Say?”
Maybe many users think about this theme,
I feel need of explain this theme, then comments to this topic now…

[Stevo]

You must ascend to the 35th level of the secret MXinautti fellowship, along with forking over the not inconsiderable initiation fees at each level, to be privy to this ancient and esoteric knowledge.

Or what Freja wrote. Whatever.