Once antiX has been installed to hard disk, you may wish to remove some apps that you don't need/want.
You can also, if you wish, remove the MEPIS stuff and turn antiX into 100% Debian testing (with a MEPIS, sidux or Debian kernel)

One advantage of removing the MEPIS tools is that it will also remove libqt4 libs and so antiX will be further streamlined. It won't make antiX any faster, but just leaner.

That's a very attractive idea (to me, at least). How do I go about it? What's the easiest way of De-MEPISizing Antix?

Thanks.

Pedro

The easiest way is to use synaptic->Origin->MEPIS and remove the mepis ones you don't need.
However it is probably not a good idea to remove the mepis-init file. (I'll test it out)

You may wish to remove mepis-install, mepis-network, mepis-system, mepis-user, mepis-xconfig. But read any messages first!

I removed all the items above (except for mepis-init) and rebooted, using my old test laptop. and everything seems to be working fine, so I guess nothing got broken.

I also removed mepis from the repos, so that it doesn't creep back in during apt-get update, upgrade.

Control center still has the button for mepis network, but of course, nothing happens.

So far, this is a successful change.

thanks.

Pedro

Hello everybody,
AntiX is already lean and runs the risk of Anorexia Nervosa. __{{emoticon}}__
What about doing the opposite: Fatten it up a little bit and see what you've got. __{{emoticon}}__

I got to like this distro when I took a look at the latest version."Yes", I thought,"now we've got something different, lean in the flesh but strong in the skeleton. Attractive and functional at the same time".
So, being adventurous and curious, I wanted to see if AntiX 8 would be useful as a base on which to build a richer OS; something like Mepis in a different flavor.

I downloaded and added"gnome" with Synaptic and after rebooting I was surprised to see the new concoction.
I had created, I thought, a new version of AntiX 8. __{{emoticon}}__
What I have now is a Debian with a touch of AntiX and who knows what else. But it looks great!
358 new packages were installed, totaling 1015 MB added to the disk.
Now I have a large choice of new multimedia programs as well as a large number of graphics packages, plus many more that I will have to check out.
Never a dull moment here. __{{emoticon}}__

Perhaps, a"fat" version of Anti X 8 would be competing with many other flavors that seem to be nothing but more of the same. I am certain that it will appeal to a great number of Linux enthusiasts.
How about it Anti? You've done a great job so far.

Cheers,
nliter

Glad you are having fun with antiX nliter! Your"fat" antiX is an interesting idea but where is the fun in that? Currently you can take antiX just about anywhere you want to go. All it takes is a little imagination and some download time.

Welcome to the fast and flexible world of antiX, nliter.

Glad to hear of your success with antiX-gnome (gantiX?)

Like impuwat, one of the strengths of antiX, even more so the base version, is the ability to install quiclly and easily and then off you go to create what you want.
Some have started with antiX-base and installed kde4, others kde3-lite, lxde, some prefer xfce and I'm sure someone will give E17 a bash too __{{emoticon}}__

Whether we can keep a variety of antiX flavours going is difficult and not as easy as just installing a desktop manager, but you never know what might happen.

Enjoy antiX,

anticapitalista

Anti, followed your instructions and worked fine, kept mepis init and changed the sources.list to Stable for now, thanks for the tip.

E17 now that does sound intriguing. I have already used Antix with KDE, Windowmaker and LXDE. Interesting. Hmmmm. __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__