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titianmom wrote: ↑

Tue May 07, 2019 8:52 pm

I installed the old T42 with AntiX; AntiX lasted until one of their rolling kernels killed it.

Kim

antiX has never had a rolling kernel. User has to upgrade their kernels manually.

AntiX Core is probably the way to go if you want to roll your own. It has all the utilities you will need already install and set up, plus the x-server and window manager already configured. Kind of gives you a more complete base to build on than Debian Net-Install (though AntiX is built on Debian)...

Use a distro without a pae kernel eg latest antiX 32 bit and see f it boots without a kernel panic

puttputt4video wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:55 am

Looks like we are in via quiet splash nomodeset Linux antiX 17.
What's next.

Click on the Install icon?

fsmithred over at refracta linux would be the best person to ask as antiX snapshot is based on his remastering tool for Debian and Devuan. https://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/ Refracta also includes special tools - refractainstaller, refractasnapshot and refracta2usb - that allow you to customize your...

Artim wrote:AntiX has systemd but doesn't use it.

This is false. antiX does not have systemd at all.

overkill22 wrote:

Pierre wrote:small & light try anti-X
http://antix.mepis.org
lots of folks seem to like that one.

Why?
It reminds me of lubuntu when it first came out...

antiX has been around a lot longer than lubuntu.

antiX uses xmms (not xmms2, which is completely different). You could add the antiX repo to your sources list to get it # Use with Debian Stable/stretch repositories. Set as default for antiX-17. Note new repos deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main then apt-get update apt-get install x...

AntiX is great and runs amazingly well, considering it has a wealth of software included, maybe the most complete of the minis, however, and that's my gripe with it too; why not offering a 'minimal' antiX if the target are low-spec machines? Stop griping! antiX offers full (700MB), base (520MB), co...

https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-candidate-announce-042017 The Refracta scripts are now included in Devuan, which makes it easy to toast a new live distro from the state of a running one. The developers of refracta have joined Devuan as lead developers so that is good news as well as the sn...

I liked antiX but the thing that annoyed me was there snapshot tool to convert your HDD install into a live disk. :( Unlike Refracta Tools It doesn't take a true snapshot and excludes things including drivers unless you piddle about with conf files and then it didn't work correctly. What is a true ...

Laugh2 wrote: ...

MX-16 (based on the older Debian 7 Wheezy) [added later][/list]

MX-16 is based on Debian Jessie not wheezy and antiX-16 does not ship with a pae kernel.

antiX-16-full also fits onto a 700MB cd.

I have two computers here I am preparing for friends of mine. Both of them are old and underpowered. I tried several different distros, and wound up putting Antix MX-14 on both of them. They claim it will run on a Pentium II 266 MHz with 64 megs of RAM. It runs well on both of the computers I insta...

Try MX-14 by the antiX and MEPIS community. Live RAM on my box is 120MB

http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx

For such low RAM, use the cli-installer script. It appears as a choice in the boot menu.

BTW Don't expect miracles trying to run a modern OS on a box that is effectively 15 years old.

HankB copy over the contents of /etc/skel as user to your /home partition (including the . dot files) antiX needs an ~/.xinitrc

The latest antiX version of inxi-gui uses yad rather than zenity.

Depends: yad, leafpad, gksu, roxterm though you can edit the script to your own choosing of course.

The latest .deb can be downloaded from here.

http://www.daveserver.info/antiX/main/

Try rox-filer

Vincent Vermeulen wrote: ... (As antiX has also switched to rolling-release earlier this year I understand--though based on Debian Stable instead of Testing.)

antiX has always been 'rolling' and based on Debian Testing.