News

I have made available for those using antiX-16 series a meltdown/spectre patched 4.4.125 kernel.
Versions 486, 686-pae and 64 bit.

These versions are now available for both 32 (486 and 686-pae) and 64 bit architecture
for all flavours.

4.15.14 stretch, testing, sid
4.9.91 jessie (antiX-16), stretch, testing, sid

Upgraded seamonkey browser suite 2.49.2 – soon available in the repos.

I have uploaded to our antiX nosystemd repo systemd-free versions of the latest dnscrypt-proxy in Debian.

Palemoon has been upgraded to 27.8.3

We have a new mirror in The Netherlands and in Germany.

Thanks to NLUUG and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen – Nürnberg

Download antiX iso files: download

Package sources repo on this page: antix-packages

We have a new mirror in Russia. Thanks to Eugene for providing the mirror and getting it set up.

Provided by Mirror.Truenetwork
Sync schedule: Every 6 hrs
Bandwidth: 4Gbps
Location: Russia, Novosibirsk

Download antiX iso files: download

Package sources repo on thia page: antix-packages

There will be some upgrades in the stretch antiX repositories that users should note.

smxi-inxi-antix – inxi now uses perl rather than bash so should run faster. Also, there is now an /etc/inxi.conf file that has inxi -U upgrade disabled (set to false).

remaster-antix scripts – new default option when remastering set to lz4 compression. This makes the remaster process much faster and cooler. However, the final linuxfs file is much bigger than one created by xz or gzip (c66% larger).
Users can still choose gzip, xz for their compression.

Note: Running frugal install on my laptop (i5 6GB RAM, ssd hard drive), lz4 is fantastic. xz is much better though when running live from a small (4GB), slow usb stick (usb2 – no usb3 on this old laptop).

There has been upgrades to slim and eudev that will soon hit the repositories.

With slim upgrade, you *should* be prompted to keep your existing sim.conf. You should do so by continuing via Enter key, as the default is to keep your version of slim.conf. Otherwise, if you have set autologin, you will have to do it again.

Since eudev replaces udev, all *should* be ok, but check before blindly upgrading.

Post on the forums if there are any issues or queries.

antiX-17.1 will be released very soon and that means quite a lot of updates for existing antiX-17 users.
Most upgrades are bug fixes or translation improvements.

These are probably the most important upgrades to keep an eye on.

dbus
eudev (in dev repo for now)
elogind
live-usb-maker-gui-antix (Yes it really is called that!)