Hi everyone! I trying different distros for a couple months now in hopes to make a full switch from M$ Windows. So far Kubuntu 6.06 has served my purpose but it's kinda slow on my old rig. So I decided to try antiX. Just downloaded and installed M7.5 yesterday and, so far, it seems like a pretty solid distro. Really hope it helps me to learn more about Linux to achieve my goal of ditchin' any proprietary software. I'll post in the forums as soon as I have a question. See ya'll around!!

OH my sys specs just in case you wonder...
PC CHIPS 755LMR, PIII 933MHz, 128MB 133Mhz SDRAM, ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 32MB PCI, HDD Maxtor 40GB 5400rpm (antiX installed) & Western Digital 80GB 7200rpm (Kubuntu 6.06.1 and Win2K Professional), built-in modem, lan & audio.

Welcome, DarwinC! I hope you really enjoy using antiX. Do let us know how we can best serve you. This forum is a great place for discussing features we'd like to see, if they are appropriate for antiX, and if so, how best to implement them. Very friendly and helpful community here!

Welcome aboard.

Question-Why did you choose Kubuntu 6.06? It's very old now and outdated. In my opinion It was the best release of any *buntu although I have tried any recent release. I gave up on it after a net upgrade to Hardy Heron or was it Feisty. What ever the later of the two was. I don't remember now but I do remember being fed up with fixing EVERYTHING every time there was a new release.

Kind of a long story but to make it short, I chose 6.06 because prior to that distro, I tried Ubuntu 7.04 & Mandriva One, both too slow on my box. After that, tried Puppy, SLAX and DSL. DSL is just LIGHTNING FAST, but as a Linux newbie, I got all confused trying to update and/or upgrade it (as well as the other mini distros). 2 or 3 months ago my cousin bought a PC and it came with Kubuntu 6.06 pre-intalled but she didn't have a clue of what it was and quickly voided the warranty by installing WinXP and she gave the Kubuntu disk to me. I installed it and have never formated my disk ever since. But, yes, it's too old and outdated. That's why I'm giving antiX a go to see if I could get newer apps, etc., as well as performance boost __{{emoticon}}__

You can get the latest and greatest by moving your Antix to the debian sid repos. Be careful though, things tend to break occasionally but are fixed quickly.

eriefisher wrote:You can get the latest and greatest by moving your Antix to the debian sid repos. Be careful though, things tend to break occasionally but are fixed quickly.

That's something I gotta learn to do __{{emoticon}}__ but rest assured I'll give it a try as soon as I can!

Just search the forum for"sid""sidux" and"smxi". There is lots of info on it and it will get you going.

Welcome to antiX, DarwinC.

You should be able to get what you want via the Debian repos.
Have a read of the FAQ and some of the information here, especially about the smxi script.
This script should help you to keep antiX up to date and rolling along, so no need to re-install in 6 months time.
antiX is about 95% Debian Testing, the rest is Mepis (kernel and Mepis tools) and a tiny bit of sidux. (ceni and infobash).
Once installed, antiX is very flexible. You can keep it as is, ie just install apps you want from the repos,
or as is but regularly upgrade (recommended), or if you prefer you can 'sidify' it or even 'sidux' it (sort of).

Anyhow, have fun.

anticapitalista wrote:or if you prefer you can 'sidify' it or even 'sidux' it (sort of).

Now if I 'sidify' or 'sidux' it, will the system requirements match the sidux system requirements? Remember that I'm on running antiX in a low-end box. My sys specs are posted in the beginning of the thread.

If I enable all the repos through synaptic (even the sidux one), go to a terminal an type:
'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will this only update my installation, not sidify or sidux it?

If you enable the sidux repos, you will 'sidify' it. By 'sidify' I mean you will install some sidux stuff, not a sidux distro.

If you want to try kde/xfce in antiX, don't use the sidux repos, but keep the repos as default or with sid. Remember sid is unstable and prone to break (usually only individual apps and temporarily).

The smxi script should give you the choice to install kde-lite, full, xfce-lite full etc. My advice is to try the lite versions.