5 Aug
2018
5 Aug
'18
6:55 a.m.
On Saturday 04 August 2018 10:43:59 pm Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-08-04 23:19
(UTC-0700):
I use AntiX in a VM, to sandbox a web browser.
Originally used AntiX (xfce) and MX Linux (icewm) for low resource machines.
Part of a recycle older hardware plan. Not so much these days.
AntiX just works though tried to install TDE, failed, did not try harder.
greg
Just wondering if anybody out there has tried
this distro?
https://antixlinux.com/
https://antixlinux.com/about/
https://antixlinux.com/antix-16-3-full-iso-files-available/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/antiX-16/
https://antixlinux.com/download/https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/mxlin
ux-cd/ANTIX/Final/antiX-17.1/
It is based on Debian, but without systemd, has a KDE4 desktop, but not a
lot of excess crap. It comes as a live CD, and can function as a rescue
disc, as well; would be nicer with TDE installed, but we can't get
everything we want. Also has a net install version, but this requires
Ethernet.
Most of the images fit on a CD, and the base images come without
LibreOffice (for those of us out there who, like me, hate it). In any
case, it was created without systemd from the start. By the way, it is
hosted in the MEPIS repositories, or so I read somewhere.
I intend to give it a try on my next system reinstallation.
I gave it a try back when TDE was part of the AntiX distribution. It was
nice enough except for an incompatibility with my multiboot methodology,
which keeps a single partition with many apps, scripts and more I install
outside the package management system for mounting as /usr/local/. AntiX
keeps much of its differentiation from straight Debian in /usr/local/ in
directories of the same names I use instead of /opt/, so instead of trying
to figure out a way to work around the shared directories problems I simply
dropped the idea of using it at all.