Hello all, Robert from Canada here again. It's been a while since my last confession here in the antiX forum, alas I have returned from adventures in the land of light-weight distros. Experiments with archbang and SliTaz on my ancient Compaq P111 800mhz, 256m ram laptop were interesting and fueled my desire to continue running as bloat free as possible.

I was anxiously awaiting the release of antiX 8.5 and have it up and running. So far I'm luvin' it! Fantastic look and feel! Kudos on another first rate effort!

See ya on the boards.

Regards,
Robert

Welcome back, Robert! Glad you are liking this version of antiX! A lot of people (anticapitalista included, I believe) experiment with several of the types of distros you like to use - and anti is frequently known to use the best features of a variety of distributions - he cites them in his credits.

My preference for rolling realease distros, such as sidux, Debian Sid, PClinuxOS have led me into exploring the independent release distros such as arch and SliTaz Brian. I enjoy recycling old hardware and my experiments have yielded good results so far. I can clearly see a lot of thought has gone into the 8.5 release, I'm sure most ppl are going to be as thrilled with it as I am.

Regards,
Robert

unohu62 wrote:My preference for rolling realease distros, such as sidux, Debian Sid, PClinuxOS have led me into exploring the independent release distros such as arch and SliTaz Brian. I enjoy recycling old hardware and my experiments have yielded good results so far. I can clearly see a lot of thought has gone into the 8.5 release, I'm sure most ppl are going to be as thrilled with it as I am.

Regards,
Robert

If you keep the Debian Testing repo enabled (or turn on the Sid repo instead) this antiX is a true rolling release. In fact, during the Version 7 series, which had 7.0, 7.2, and 7.5 (and I may have even tried one coming from 6.5) I have used a couple of my antiX systems as rolling releases and I love 'em! I especially like starting with antiX BASE then creating various unusual variations, but I nearly always keep a stock, current release handy too. Good stuff!

I'll play with the stock testing repos to get a feel for the distro Brian, but I usually end up running straight Debian Sid after a while.

unohu62,

Welcome to antiX,

Don't know if you've looked at this:


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"You can safely use sidux, liquorix and Debian kernels in antiX (if you wish). Use smxi"

Also the help faq for antiX has some good info.

cheers,
oldhoghead

Welcome back unohu62.

As Brian mentioned, I try out a lot of lightweight distros to get some ideas for antiX, though I don't install them to hard drive, just in VB. SliTaz is one of my favourites to play with. How they managed to get what they have in 30MB (and look pretty) is amazing.
I use antiX-Sid on my desktop and it runs very well. At the moment I'm using the latest 2.6.33-6 liquorix kernel, dist-upgraded today and everything is running as smooth as when I installed this version.

Yes oldhoghead, I'm aware of the smxi script and the various kernels one can install.

Indeed anticapitalista, SliTaz packs quite a punch in such a small space. I was quite surprised how good it ran on my ancient laptop.

So far everything is running smoothly using antiX 8.5, kudos on such a polished release anti!

I must confess to being a distro junkie. I just can't help myself, particularly so called"light distros". However, I believe that AntiX really is the one this time. Light as hell, fast and the thing that makes it stand out for me is the handy little scripts and config tools. My distro of choice used to be a customised Debian Testing but I could never easily tweak it to act exactly as I wanted which is basically AntiX.