5 Aug
2018
5 Aug
'18
6:59 a.m.
On Saturday 04 August 2018 23:43:59 Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-08-04 23:19
(UTC-0700):
When I was doing multiboot systems, I gave up on shared directories (like
home). Instead, I just created two completely separate systems; two home
folders, two root folders, etc., and that worked pretty well. When I needed
to copy something from one home folder to another, that was a hassle, but
viable, and better than a broken system. I didn't like the idea of duplicated
(wasted) space, but it was the best solution. I ran like that on a laptop,
while I was learning Debian, with a Hardy Heron as the other system.
My Hardy Kubuntu 8.04 configuration still runs like a top, when I install it
on a machine; except that it is mostly unusable for Internet now, due to lack
of security updates, patches, etc.
Hardy Heron with KDE3 (the only machine I've ever loved) is basically what I
am trying to recreate on TDE. It looks almost identical, but doesn't quite
run as smoothly.
Well, since I am not doing multiboot at the moment, maybe AntiX will work for
me.
*fingers crossed*
Bill
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.