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antiX-26.1 - Released 29 September 2026
antiX is available in 64 bit (computers built in the last 10 years) or 32 bit (very old computers or newer machines but be aware that a lot of software no longer provides 32 bit versions).
antiX-26.1 includes 5 init systems. runit (default), sysVinit, dinit, s6-rc and s6-66.
Each of these architectures comes in 2 possible "flavours"
antiX-full (c2.2GB) – 4 windows managers – IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm plus full libreoffice suite.
Suitable for most users. Lots of applications pre-installed and has the best hardware support.
antiX-core (c660MB) – no gui environment, but should support most wireless.
Suitable for confident/comfortable users who want to build up from a minimal install.
Downloads
Click to download antiX-26.1-Full 64bit Click to download antiX-26.1-Full 32bit
Click to download antiX-26.1-Core 64bit Click to download antiX-26.1-Core 32bit
You should verify the download before installation
antiX-26.1
md5sums: 0d769a1b19f8290b46e189683b0578f6 antiX-26.1_x64-full.iso 8d3fa37431dcf03cb637cd78ce5dc61c antiX-26.1_386-full.iso beb1d31f74172c1e08a326010db3e365 antiX-26.1_x64-core.iso 6b85dbd9ccf7e6eb80f2108947bbca9a antiX-26.1_386-core.iso sha256: 293381af0b7c48399abe015da8f67d41fd34372b73c4aafcf53747fbaed22371 antiX-26.1_x64-full.iso 6ec6f6522c69b4411d32f61e853709cdaf94df709c264b2a4d7de9724ce57fbc antiX-26.1_386-full.iso 4f17a36c506a6771460545e18de6f5ea08f5664bca0e0bc285be52b41f5be762 antiX-26.1_x64-core.iso 5e07ed85acba1d2c33a7e41b089e80ce203eeb11d81af8c830e64e2e058ead7e antiX-26.1_386-core.iso
How to create a bootable pen-drive with an antiX.iso
The iso images can be written and booted live from a cd, frugal install via hdd, from usb, etc. To make the most of using the antiX live system, particularly from a usb, it is recommended to use the antiX/MX live usb maker or Rufus if using Windows to make the CD. If either of these do not work for you, it is possible to use other image writing tools. Keep in mind that in most cases the way the image writer makes the live usb leaves the live boot media/image read only and therefor cannot make use of all the antiX live usb features.
Live usb maker comes preinstalled on antiX and MX. For other linux distributions an AppImage is available for download from here; However this currently is for 64 bit only. Once you have downloaded the package you must open your downloads folder, extract the package, and run the AppImage with root priveleges (to read/write/format/mount the usb). deb packages are also available for download through the antiX repos or the source code on gitlab. The helpfile or instructions for using live usb maker can be found here
Instructions and download for rufus can be found on their website https://rufus.ie/. Downloading the executable and running the program as administrator should be enough to run rufus. It is recommended that you skip the “setup persistence” option within rufus as during the antiX liveboot you will be able to (optionally) setup persistence. This will setup be a more accurate persistence setup.
In both instances a writable partition, valid partition name, etc; are required to setup the persistence files. Using other options which make a read only partition (example: dd) or a different partition format (example: etcher) make it more difficult for you to make a setup that allows more use of the antiX live usb system. The setup needed would be comparable using a live cd and attempting to have live persistence. Even if/when working correctly there will be a number of features lacking. For example: you cannot remaster the base image. Optionally to make use of the full live usb system on a multiboot usb (or within another hard drive install), you might consider to manually setup a frugal installation
Manual Download links:
Below is a list of worldwide mirrors available for downloading the antiX ISO images. Downloading from a mirror might be faster and more reliable.
Any/CDN
Africa
Kenya - liquidtelecom - Nairobi
Tanzania - Aptus Solutions Ltd - Dar es Salaam
Uganda - RENU (Research and Education Network for Uganda) - Kampala
North America
Canada - Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Canada - Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo - ON
USA - Genesis Adaptive, Inc. - Chicago, IL
USA - 1&1 Internet - Lenexa, KS
USA - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) - Cambridge, MA
USA - Princeton University Mathematics Department - Princeton, NJ
USA - Oregon State University/Open Source Lab, Oregon
South America
Argentina - UNC| Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Cordoba
Chile - Netlinux (Grupo Solux) - Santiago
Colombia - Universidad del Magdalena - Santa Marta/ Magdalena
Asia
China - tuna.tsinghua.edu - Beijing
China - Shanghai Jiao Tong University *nix User Group (SJTUG) - Shanghai
India - PicoNets WebWerks - Mumbai
Indonesia - Poliwangi | Politeknik Negeri Banyuwangi - East Java, Banyuwangi
Indonesia - East Java,Surabaya
Japan - Tsukuba WIDE Public Mirror service - Tsukuba
Japan - Yamagata University - Yonezawa
Philippines - RISE - Cebu City
Philippines - PREGINET - Quezon City
South Korea - Harukasan Mirror Station - Busan
South Korea - KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) - Daejeon
South Korea - NBP/NAVER Corp. - Seoul
Taiwan - National Chiao Tung University - Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
Thailand - Khon Kaen University -Khon Kaen
Turkey - "Linux Kullanıcıları Derneği" - Ankara
Uzbekistan - Datacenter Uzinfocom - Tashkent
Europe
Belarus - Beltelecom datacenter - Minsk
Czech Republic - CZLUG/Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University - Brno
Czech Republic - CVUT - Prague
Denmark - Dotsrc.org - Aalborg
Denmark - One.com - Copenhagen
France - Université de Picardie - Amiens
France - Saint Étienne du Rouvray
France - Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'université Paris 6 (LIP6) - Paris
France - Université de Strasbourg - Strasbourg
Germany - RWTH Aachen University - Aachen
Germany - Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Bochum
Germany - University Computing Centre | TU Chemnitz - Chemnitz
Germ.1any - PlusServer GmbH - Cologne
Germany - 1&1 Internet - Karlsruhe
Germany - Funkfreunde Landshut, Landshut
Germany - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg
Greece - University of Crete Computer Center - Crete
Latvia - Linux Centrs, University of Latvia - Riga
Moldova - MivoCloud - Chisinau
Netherlands - MX/antiX - Alblasserdam
Netherlands - KoDDoS - Amsterdam
Poland - Politechnika Gdańska | CI TASK - Gdansk
Portugal - Grupo de Linux da Universidade de Aveiro - Aveiro
Portugal - FCT | FCCN (Computação Cientifica Nacional) - Lisbon
Portugal - Departamento de Informática da Universidade do Minho - Minho
Slovakia - Rainside.sk - Bratislava
Spain - OSLUZ, Universidad de Zaragoza - Aragon
Spain - IT Services, Universidade de Vigo (UVigo) - Galicia
Sweden - Academic Computer Club Umeå University - Umeå
Switzerland - Department of Physics, ETH Zurich - Zurich
Switzerland - easyname - Zurich
Ukraine - Debian.org.ua - Kyiv
United Kingdom - UKFast - Manchester
Oceania
Australia - DataMossa - Sydney
New Caledonia - L@goon | OFFRATEL - Nouméa
Many thanks to all our mirrors.
Signature verification of the ISO:
Download both the ISO file and the signature file into the same folder.
Open terminal within this folder.
Run GnuPG’s signature verification tool gpgv to verify iso-signature eg
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys A80582E000067FDD
Followed by
gpgv --keyring trustedkeys.gpg antiX-26.1_x64-full.iso.sig antiX-26.1_x64-full.iso
For the above make sure you use the real name of the .iso and .sig you downloaded.
Please seed torrents once you have downloaded. Thanks.