antiX-M11 'Jayaben Desai' released

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-05-02 21:50

antiX-M11 has been released.

Well we got there in the end.

03 May 2011

antiX-M11 'Jayaben Desai' released

Just over a year since the release of antiX-M8.5, the antiX-team are pleased to announce that antiX MEPIS 11 'Jayaben Desai' - a fast, light, very flexible and complete desktop and livecd based on Debian Testing and SimplyMEPIS - is now available in full, base and core versions (for 686 and 486 kernel all using hybridiso). This release defaults to a fully customised icewm-Rox desktop (fluxbox, wmii and dwm are also installed) using a SimplyMEPIS 2.6.36-4 kernel, our own assistants to help configuration, and the usual range of applications for desktop use. Latest Iceape (2.0.13-1) for internet needs, Abiword (2.8.6) and gnumeric (1.10.14) for office use, qmmp and goggles music manager (0.12.1) for audio, gxine, mplayer and gnome-mplayer for video, gppp (dial-up), wicd (1.7), umt-panel2 (from aptosid) for GPRS/UMTS/3G and ceni (2.21) for network connection, pidgin (2.7.11) for chat. Many cli apps are also included such as Alpine for email, moc for audio, elinks for browsing, abcde and ripit for cd ripping and much more. Features include a cli-installer script for fast and light install, live with persistence, 'remaster on the fly', new boot cheatcodes for setting dpi and desktop windows manager with or without icons, antix2usb to easily install to usb stick. Many languages are fully supported out of the box with the language chosen at live CD boot carrying over to install. Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are included as well as ibus in the full version.

antiX works on computers with as little as 64 MB RAM, though 128MB RAM is the recommended minimum and the 486 kernel version should work on AMD K5/k6. antiX is fast and has low RAM usage running live or installed.

You can download the iso files from here (but please use the torrents)

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masinick · posted: 2011-05-03 04:08

Congratulations, anti, and to everyone else who helped to make this happen! Great JOB! __{{emoticon}}__

Hannes Worst · posted: 2011-05-03 05:35

Great name also. Jayaben Desai is quite an admirable person, fighting with words, integrity and intelligence as her weapons as i've learned searching the internet. Every day we learn ... Congratulations Anti and everyone!

TheForsaken · posted: 2011-05-03 09:47

HOOHAA, I've been waiting for this moment since a long time __{{emoticon}}__

Congratulation Anti and everyone else in this great community ... GREAT JOB __{{emoticon}}__

I'm downloading it now and I have solved my slow internet connection - my connection is 4 times faster now.
Can't wait to install it __{{emoticon}}__

Keep it up guys!

jhsu · posted: 2011-05-03 16:13

Awesome! I'll have to give it a try. Now that antiX-M11 is officially released, I'll be using this for my next version of Swift Linux.

Cuttlefish · posted: 2011-05-03 20:34

Great Job!! Thank you anti, Dave, roky, ICE and all of you who helped develop this distro.
You have all taught me so much.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-05-04 06:45

Seeding Torrent at linux tracker. Booted on Asus Micro Desktop. Running live off pendrive. Boot option Icewm no Icons. Eth0 on this unit. Made the Pendrive for my Borked EEEPC 900. Will do a screenshot install in forum instead of my blog later. Gave up on my Blog.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips 8799.34 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 2199.838 MHz (2) 2199.838 MHz
Graphics:  Card: nVidia G71 [GeForce 7900 GS] bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port dc00 bus-ID: 02:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 322.1GB (0.2% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD3200AAKS 320.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 101K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 6.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 96 Uptime 6 min Memory 162.7/2023.5MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95

rokytnji · posted: 2011-05-04 17:49

Posting my inxi -F here. No need to put it in my how to. This is installed on Asus EEEPC 900. Still a work in progress.

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~$ inxi -F
System:    Host Biker Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (nx sse sse2) bmips 1800.13 clocked at 900.067 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 1024x600@59.5hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915GM GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver atl2 v: 2.2.3 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           Card-2 Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ath5k v: 0.6.0 bus-ID: 01:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 20.2GB (10.0% used) 1: /dev/sda ASUS 4.0GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ASUS 16.1GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 3.7G used: 1.9G (54%) fs: auto 
Info:      Processes 85 Uptime 3 min Memory 56.4/2016.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95

vrkalak · posted: 2011-05-05 19:36

I am really liking the new AntiX on my ancient laptop.

I downloaded AntiX M11 last night via Torrent.
This morning, I wiped the old AntiX M8.5 off my old Gateway laptop and installed AntiX M11.
My 7-8 year old Gateway laptop, only has 182 Mb of RAM.

I really like that IceWM is now the default desktop. No offense against Fluxbox; I just find IceWM easier to use and configure. Nice selection of themes, wallpapers and Apps.

Connecting to WiFi or Wireless was a 'snap; with Ceni.

I have been using mainly Debian OS for several years now, so I know what to expect from AntiX

. . . the new AntiX M11 is, as was expected -- sharp, fast and refreshing.

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2011-05-05 20:51

Congratulations anti and everyone. Its a very fine release. I've been spreading the word among my facebook pals. I've got a bud trying it out on an old laptop he wants to use for android dev work. Pretty cool!

rokytnji · posted: 2011-05-06 02:57

+Being a bad boy. Booted up live usb AntiX 11 full i686 iso on Wifes Acer Aspire 5534 Laptop (she is sleeping) __{{emoticon}}__

Sound works. Used Default in boot menu

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.demo@antiX1:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 345mm x 194mm
   1366x768       60.0*+
   1280x720       59.9  
   1152x768       59.8  
   1024x768       59.9  
   800x600        59.9  
   848x480        59.7  
   720x480        59.7  
   640x480        59.4  
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

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demo@antiX1:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips 4788.3 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 1197.079 MHz (2) 1197.079 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] bus-ID: 01:05.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
           Card-2 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port 2000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 256.2GB (0.3% used) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_MK2555GS 250.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 3: USB /dev/sdc Multi 4.1GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 104K (1%) fs: rootfs 
Info:      Processes 115 Uptime 14 min Memory 174.4/3545.2MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95

wlan0 for wicd. Boy this booted fast and runs quick on this hog.

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wooooohooooo __{{emoticon}}__

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:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3630304     604100    3026204          0      85904     335288
-/+ buffers/cache:     182908    3447396
Swap:            0          0          0

rokytnji · posted: 2011-05-06 04:55

I am now posting from the other extreme. First.
Holy cow Batman. This IBM A22m (mine this time) boots AntiX 11 i686 Full USB Live Iso, that's right kiddies. I said pendrive. On a bios that has no option for booting a pendrive (too old). I was bored and thought. Let's break out the ol ibm and my old PLOP Floppy from way back
using-plop-boot-manager-to-boot-antix-from-pendrive-t2248.html

so I figured. New Iso, New Kernel, why not?

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demo@antiX1:~$ inxi -pluo
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 103K (1%) fs: rootfs dev: /dev/root.old label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID:/cdrom size: 1.9G used: 686M (37%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 label: N/A uuid: F94D-27AC 
           ID:swap-1 size: 0.76GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: 42ccf9af-b8f0-43b5-b9e4-9c83129de2ca 
Unmounted: ID: /dev/sda1 size: 5.43G label: N/A uuid: 3585475c-f005-4fa8-872c-8cb0444650e4 
           ID: /dev/sda4 size: 8.32G label: N/A uuid: 5017b434-5f6f-43ee-9fac-ae85c90ee6d9 
           ID: /dev/sda5 size: 5.50G label: N/A uuid: 18949258-e345-4f62-80c3-500ee7644655 
demo@antiX1:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (-UP-) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1992.86 clocked at 1000.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 1024x768@87.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] driver Sound Fusion CS46xx bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 3Com 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] driver 3c59x port 1800 bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Card-2 Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 06:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 22.0GB (3.3% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N020ATCS04 20.0GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 103K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 0.76GB used: 0.01GB (2%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 84 Uptime 23 min Memory 139.4/247.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95 
demo@antiX1:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        253340     244652       8688          0      20368      84476
-/+ buffers/cache:     139808     113532
Swap:       738984      11140     727844
demo@antiX1:~$ sux
Password: 
root@antiX1:/home/demo# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf048567a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         660     5301418+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2341        2432      738990   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             661        1329     5373742+   5  Extended
/dev/sda4            1330        2340     8120857+  83  Linux
/dev/sda5             661        1329     5373711   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd9980c3f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         243     1951866    b  W95 FAT32
root@antiX1:/home/demo#

I run AntiX 8.5 on this rig dualbooting with Puppy 5.2. But I am seriously thinking of wiping 8.5 and installing 11 since it passed the stress test. Nice job with getting rid of can't find file system error like in 8.5 using PLOP floppy. Just had to share.

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2011-05-06 12:30

cool rok. Time to revisit my older laptops and see if the same holds true.

masinick · posted: 2011-05-06 15:42

Well, I have been running antiX images all along, and I really did not NEED to install another one, but I decided to do so anyway. I grabbed the full version for the final download, installed it this morning, and now I am back, using a Live DVD, just to double and triple check everything I use. I expected everything to work perfectly, and I was not disappointed.

Once again, antiX M11.0 is a great achievement! During the testing phase, I've downloaded a couple of different versions. The only version I didn't"beat on" during testing was the core version; I have my own core version running, and I've left that one intact.

Everything I have tried works beautifully!

I also downloaded our"parent" distribution, SimplyMEPIS, which has overcome the obstacles that were holding up its release, and it also looks extremely good.

Congratulations to everyone associated with both antiX and SimplyMEPIS. Both efforts have patiently done the hard work to make both of them outstanding releases. During development, I was encouraging my friends in the forums I participate in to test both of them as much as possible. The end result is very satisfying.

Thank you, everyone, for the contributions, the hard work, the documentation, the testing, the art work, the preparation, the attention to details, and the always outstanding cooperation and the polite attitudes I always experience from my friends participating in this work. Great job everyone!

rokytnji · 06 May 2011, 20:35 #15 2011-05-06 20:35

@dolphin_oracle or anybody else reading my above post about plop. I borked my pendrive (as usual for me). So I went to my other computer and tried making live USB with lataest Unetrbootin version 5.9 something. It would not boot after I made it. So I went to my other computer which has unetbootin version 4.33 which is what worked before. So you might have to use

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for the newer unetbootin. just in case.