A big thank you for a distro that works and does what I want __{{emoticon}}__
I am old NT fan (3.1 onwards) after XP (vista & 7 are not what I am looking for) I started looking for a better OS. I missed the small footprint of NT4 and not having to restart for weeks lol. My 1st look at linux led me to DSL (I still have it installed on a old box PII 233 128MB ram, it is used as a auto surf station, 30 days plus no restart __{{emoticon}}__ ) DSL is old and does not work on my latops __{{emoticon}}__ So the search began for a small fast distro that supports laptops. Tried and dumped Puppy (how did it ever become that popular?), Tiny Me (Hmm not sure what happend, never got to run) Feather (not my cup of tea), Yoper, Vector KDE & light (liked light, but Antix is better), Slax (fast, but kindergarden layout put me off), YLMF (looks like XP, but not as stable as XP) Simply Mepis (I can not belive how bad the installer is, they need help!!). Antix put on USB stick 3 or 4 times, just keept comming back. It is not most user friendly distro, I killed it a lot of times. Finnaly read the FAQ and worked out what I was doing wrong lol. The installer needs some help (I now know how to fix the grub so it loads from USB stick). It is fast and stable if you update thru the root __{{emoticon}}__ I still need XP for work, but when they stop updating it, I will switch Antix full time.
Again thank you for a great distro __{{emoticon}}__


Best Regards
Shaun

Howdy and Welcome Shaun.

Simply Mepis (I can not belive how bad the installer is, they need help!!).The installer needs some help (I now know how to fix the grub so it loads from USB stick)

Yeah. I'd like to see either more options/features from Mepis Installer. I found that installing from USB at first would error out to Grub 15 error.

Figured out How to edit /boot/grub menu.lst to fix that. What I did is posted somewhere (it's Sunday and I aint going to look for it.)

Same thing with installing to two drifferent drives. One for /home. The Other for / . I also posted on how I got around that also. I think drg posted a neat solution for that problem also.

But. Nothing is perfect. If I wanna change how something works. Well. I better get off my keister and do it myself. (Not the Whining type (edit: I bend the truth a little sometimes __{{emoticon}}__ ). Does not go well with my tattoos)

Glad you joined us and are having fun using AntiX

Happy Trails, Rok

Welcome to antiX, Shaun.

Which version aere you using?

inxi -F will let us know and give useful information about your hardware.

Have fun!

This my newer of the two CF-51's I own



System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Dual core Intel Core Duo T2500 (SMP) cache 2048 KB flags (nx sse sse2 sse3 vmx) bmips 7982.6
Clock Speeds: (1) 1000.00 MHz (2) 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1600x1200@61.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card-1 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection driver iwl3945 v: 1.2.26ks BusID: 03:00.0
Card-2 Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver sky2 v: 1.25 at port 3000 BusID: 04:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 64.1GB (2.5% used) 1: /dev/sda FUJITSU_MHV2060A 60.0GB
2: USB /dev/sdb Flash_Disk 4.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 2.8G used: 1.5G (55%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 796M used: 36M (5%) fs: ext4
ID:swap-1 size: 0.21GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 105 Uptime 13 min Memory 104.7/1007.6MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9

This is my other CF-51

System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium M (UP) cache 2048 KB flags (nx sse sse2) bmips 1596.72 clocked at 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0 BusID: 00:1e.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card-1 Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq BusID: 06:04.0
Card-2 Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver sky2 v: 1.25 at port 3000 BusID: 02:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 48.2GB (5.3% used) 1: /dev/sda HTS424040M9AT00 40.0GB
2: USB /dev/sdb v125w 8.2GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 5.0G used: 2.4G (50%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 2.5G used: 91M (4%) fs: ext4
ID:swap-1 size: 0.21GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 98 Uptime 4 min Memory 99.3/1000.1MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9