topic title: antiX Design Philosophy
Posts: 127
KrunchTime
Joined: 05 Dec 2014
#1
Is there something available that describes the design philosophy of antiX; i.e. why it's put together the way it is? As I dig around in the file system trying to troubleshoot different issues, I'm find out that antiX has different ways of doing things. One difference right off the top of my head is the use of [/]boot[/]grub[/]menu.lst versus [/]etc[/]default[/]grub.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Lean and Mean. As of AntiX 14 and later . We use grub2 instead of grub legacy. A lot of discussion went into grub while you were running Crunchbang,

There is a installed packages text and other info in Documents folder. Is there not. HTML and such?
Posts: 127
KrunchTime
Joined: 05 Dec 2014
#3
rokytnji wrote:Lean and Mean.
I knew that. I was looking for documentation as to why things are done the way they're done. I guess that's asking too much. I don't believe any distro team puts out something like that.
rokytnji wrote:There is a installed packages text and other info in Documents folder. Is there not. HTML and such?
Ah yes; I forgot about those. Thank you for refreshing my memory. I'll take a look and see if they provide the info I'm hoping to find.
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BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#4
From the
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#About_antiX"
linktext was:"antiX home page"
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:
antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install linux live CD distribution based on Debian Testing for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the"antiX Magic" in an environment suitable for old computers. So don't throw away that old computer yet! The goal of antiX is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both newcomers and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 64MB old PII 266 systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes. 128MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX. The installer needs minimum 2.2GB hard disk size. antiX can also be used as a fast-booting rescue cd. A special XFCE edition made in collaboration with the MEPIS Community called MX-14"Symbiosis" is also available.