topic title: Hello antiXer's
Posts: 18
yamawho
Joined: 20 May 2008
#1
I started using linux about 5 years ago with Suse 8.2 Pro and stopped after a crash and lost weeks of emails.
Went back to windows XP for years and with the release of Vista I decided to try my hand at linux again.
Started With Mepis 6.5 and switched to Mint 4 when it came out. I prefer gnome over kde and am currently running ubuntu 8.04 on my main rig and really liking it. I also am running Mandriva 2008.1 on my Eee PC.

I was looking for a lean distro to run on my Intel D201GLY2 system and found this one __{{emoticon}}__

I have it installed and running but never having used fluebox before, I have questions which I will post shortly __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 452
Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#2
Welcome to antiX!

If you have never used fluxbox before, you might profit from reading through the antiX FAQ document that is in /home/username/Documents.
Posts: 18
yamawho
Joined: 20 May 2008
#3
I'm at work so I can not.

Is this info on this site somewhere ?
Posts: 452
Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#4
No but that's a good idea! Here is a draft you can look at until you see the final one on your own computer:


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Posts: 18
yamawho
Joined: 20 May 2008
#5
Thanks for the link.

There is nothing on setting up networking however ...

I'll check the docs when I get home.
Posts: 452
Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#6
Right, because it is not particular to antiX and most of what you need is in the MEPIS Wiki:


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Or the MEPIS User's Manual:


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Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#7
Hey yamawho, welcome to the antiX forums & the wonderful world of"Fluxbox"... TADA!!! __{{emoticon}}__ Hope you're enjoying antiX and getting your network probs sorted? (I still haven't done mine yet.... i keep putting it off. It's so much easier when you use Nautilus!) LOL!!
Posts: 18
yamawho
Joined: 20 May 2008
#8
DJiNN wrote:It's so much easier when you use Nautilus! LOL!!
Thanks for the welcome !

I know what you mean ...

I decided to try installing gnome thru synaptic yesterday.
It downloaded 312 files and started up dating at 6:00PM.
I left home around 8:00AM and it was still at it ... __{{emoticon}}__

If it's still at it when I get home I'll reinstall a I guess.
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#9
yamawho wrote:
DJiNN wrote:It's so much easier when you use Nautilus! LOL!!
Thanks for the welcome !

I know what you mean ...

I decided to try installing gnome thru synaptic yesterday.
It downloaded 312 files and started up dating at 6:00PM.
I left home around 8:00AM and it was still at it ... __{{emoticon}}__

If it's still at it when I get home I'll reinstall a I guess.
Ouch!! __{{emoticon}}__ You can install Nautilus on it's own if that's all you're after? Or if you're a KDE fan then grab Konqueror. You'll get some deps & libs etc, but it's lighter than installing a whole DE, and it'll pretty much take care of you're networking problems. Konqueror's great for that, and it's a really good browser as well.
Posts: 18
yamawho
Joined: 20 May 2008
#10
I seem to remember looking for Nautilus in synaptic and not seeing it ... oh well __{{emoticon}}__

Although I was using KDE in mepis 6.5, the K this and K that thing was driving me batty.
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#11
yamawho wrote:I seem to remember looking for Nautilus in synaptic and not seeing it ... oh well __{{emoticon}}__
Hmmm, i'm sure it's available. It's a file manager so should be available. Yep, just checked & it's available on it's own. Maybe remove what you installed with Gnome and then install Nautilus?
Although I was using KDE in mepis 6.5, the K this and K that thing was driving me batty.
LOL!! That's the number one complaint that i read so often about KDE (Me included) which is a shame because KDE is really good.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#12
Welcome to antiX, yamawho.

Hope you are having productive fun with it.

eriefisher should be able to help out with the Networking. (if no-one else jumps in sooner)
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#13
I'm here. Networking is pretty easy actually. I have been wanting to put this in the wiki but just haven't got around to it.


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Post back if you need more assistance.

Oh yeah, welcome to AntiX, enjoy the ride.
Posts: 69
Piedie
Joined: 01 May 2008
#14
Hi,

Should not most of this thread be in something like"Help on networking needed" __{{emoticon}}__

I'm glad I know (at least till now) it is here and hope to find it again after a few weeks/monts from now.

Oh, by the way: Welcome __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#15
I see there was another thread for networking started so all is good.