Greeting everyone

i am new to Linux, i tried various distros to start my learning curve on Linux.

sometime i have no sound, sometime no video, often no wireless..

i found your OS, download and installed on old laptop.

It just works!!, thank you so much. the vlc player plays all my media files without me doing anything...

now i am trying to learn how to add sun java run time environment to the browser, hopefully someone will help point me to a procedure

thank you very much for the OS.
wayne

Hi Wayne, I think you should just run

thank you secipolla,
at first it did not work, unable to find directory or something.
after some more tries, finally it worked.
after installation, reset, now the java is running. it is so nice..

as this is old laptop, running win xp would have to wait for very long to get the laptop up.
on this antiX 8.5 alpha2, it took me some 40 seconds and i am able to login to internet, that is very respectable speed.
thanks again.

hello and welcome to antix. isn't your version a little old? why don't you try the latest
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hi ICE-M

thanks for your link
i checked and realised that i had the correct 8.5 April2010 version.
i mixed up with another cd labelled with alpha2.
my poor eyesight, haha,
so i am ok with latest version.

EDIT, OK now i have downloaded July version that is 564M size.
testing now.

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Hi

I've played around with the Live CD for a few days, but I'm new to antiX and, as I'm currently using Ubuntu+Fluxbox, new to the principles and practice of a rolling release.

So I'm unclear about why it would matter that the OP's initial installation is"a little old". I thought releases of antiX are snapshots rather than versions. Obviously it makes sense to install the latest release if you're doing a clean install, but in the OP's case wouldn't dist-upgrade bring his older installation up to (and beyond) the current release?

Or am I misunderstanding and the advice to re-install using the latest release was specific to the issues the OP was having?

Thanks in advance for any clarification that will help me get my head around the rolling release thing. Getting on to a rolling release is one of the reasons I'm consider moving from Ubuntu to antiX, so I want to be sure I fully understand it before I make the move.

Andy

Welcome to antiX, the OP had dl the antiX 8.5 alpha 2 version, that was a testing version, and due to the rolling release nature of antiX, upgrading would entail a very large number of updates, theoretically speaking, had the OP dl the alpha2 at the time of the release of the alpha2, it would have been for test purposes, to ferret out the bugs and following that logic, he would not have been using this for a production rig. He would have probably dl the final and then tweaked to his likings and done an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade on a regular basis, which would entail a fair number of updates. But for someone who just dl'd the latest version, (July) would only necessitate installing updates since July.
Back to your question, had the OP installed the original final and done a du on a regular basis, he would be up to date and would not need to install the July release, that was sort of a maintenance release that would allow new users to dl the latest up to date version.

Have a read here if you have not already, it will enlighten you to some of the possibilities of antiX and again welcome.


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cheers,
ohh

Thanks, ohh, that was really helpful. And a very quick response.

I'm seriously considering moving to antiX, so no doubt I'll be back for more help and advice.

Andy