You're welcome, skidoo; thanks to everyone there! The project seems to be going strong. I use Rockbox on an iRiver H10 lately, and for days when I lend that to my wife, I still have an Archos that just barely works. It's an Ondio with a broken screen, yet it is perfectly usable thanks to Rockbox voice prompts.

A little of my history first, I started playing the piano, at the age of 10. My father taught me to read music, and play the piano. He had strict rules when it came to music. That's probably why I can play classical music the best.
Shortly after leaving home, and graduating from various schools. I got a good job, and bought a house.
That's when I bought, my first piano it was a reconditioned Steinway Model B. It took up most of the front room of the house. Then I married my college sweetheart, it was about five years later she died in an auto accident. About 2 years later I meant my current wife. She worked in a trauma center, at a near by hospital as a nurse. Shortly after we got married. Then I sold the house. We both agreed we did not want the piano taking up the living space in the new house.
So after looking around, and trying out different portable pianos. I found the Yamaha Portable grand had the best sound. This piano came with a computer sound card, and midi software. So I installed it on my windows 98 computer, and That's when I started making midi music. Then I bought a new computer with windows vista, No problem drivers loaded for the keyboard, and the old software worked fine. Then I bought another computer for myself. That had windows XP, I tried the old sound card. With the drivers disk, I ended up with a blue screen with an error that crashed the system. Then I bought another sound card, and a firewire adapter. so I can plug my keyboard into the sound card.
Then I tried my original software from when I bought the keyboard. The blue screen was back with a different error.
After messing with windows time, and time again. Not finding the software to fit my needs.I started looking at Linux. After a lot of experimenting, and trial, and error. I found antiX it was the only OS that would boot this AMD XP machine from live disk.
While everyone else here was twinkling the OS, I was experimenting with midi, and ALSA.
For the longest time, I kept quite about what I was doing, and my background.
By the way, I did have some knowledge of Linux before anitX.
Other than the love of music, computers are my vice.
So this is how I got here.

I always liked to mess around with old pc's and first tried Ubuntu back around ver 8 something, also played with Knoppix abit. When i salvaged a Dell 4700 from the trash I distrohopped from Mint to @# to fedora to Ubuntu 12.04 for quite a while then went to MX!$ and am now there for the long haul. my wife picked me up an old 2800XP laptop for $5 and i stuck a hard drive in it and commenced to hop from Puppy to Fedora 20 LXDE to Antix13.2, got bored and tried Manjaro which did evil to my HDD so I went back to Antix13.2 with wheezy repo's and this is where that laptop will stay. Both MX14 and Antix have just been reliable and fast.

Actually been running AntiX since 6.5..... just never got around to joining the forum.Total distrohopper but mainly prefer something Debian based........ lots of hardware so lots of different installs to experiment with.

I dd'd antiX-14R-alpha1_386-full.iso onto my trusty Microcenter 1GB flash drive, booted it, enabled wireless networking, opened up iceweasel, and was presented with the opportunity to register for the forum, which I obviously did.

Been using Linux since 2000. Started with RH5 using the CDs inan interlibrary-loaned Linux Bible, and have been through many distros in the ensuing years. Currently running Fedora Rawhide and Ubuntu 14.04 as my main distros. Last time I tried antiX, wireless wouldn't work on my system, so was very pleasantly surprised this time, when it just worked.

I stumbled with antiX a while ago looking for a distro having Fluxbox right out of the box. Not easy. Not many have it. I installed Fluxbox in CrunchBang, but being a total novice FB as default was a bit discouraging, so I wanted something with some decent configuration to start with and learn something about. Found antiX, discovered ROX and loved them. Then kept going in other directions but I re-discovered it a few days ago, and again, I'm fastinated.

I'm currently running Trisquel, which is an all-free respin of Ubuntu.

The new release is based on 14.04, which will not run on my Thinkpad T61. I can't get Samba working either, after several months of virtualizing the alpha, then beta, then release candidate.

My background is with DSL (Damn Small Linux) so I prefer a lighter distro that will run on older hardware. I also have some experience with Mepis from 2006ish before Ubuntu became the"go-to" newbie distro.

AntiX seems like it might be right up my alley.

I was looking for a backup distro in case CrunchBang Linux, my favorite distro, ever ceases to exist. I tried SparkyLinux first, but it's installer wouldn't work on one of my laptops, so after a bit of research, I decided to give antiX a look.

Hello all,
I started out with an ancient version of Red Hat in 2004. In 2007 I began using Ubuntu, then Xubuntu, and then settled on Crunchbang 10. Currently using Arch linux on the desktop. I am posting this message using Antix 13.2 32-bit full install on a Dell Inspiron laptop which has 512 MB RAM. Very soon I will be installing antix-core and building up from there. I am enjoying learning about antix, thanks to the great video tutorials by dolphin_oracle.

kaoso wrote:Hello all,
I started out with an ancient version of Red Hat in 2004. In 2007 I began using Ubuntu, then Xubuntu, and then settled on Crunchbang 10. Currently using Arch linux on the desktop. I am posting this message using Antix 13.2 32-bit full install on a Dell Inspiron laptop which has 512 MB RAM. Very soon I will be installing antix-core and building up from there. I am enjoying learning about antix, thanks to the great video tutorials by dolphin_oracle.

Which model Dell is it? CPU? I have a couple older Dell laptops running antiX.

It is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel Pentium M processor 1.6 GHz. It has been my testing machine for many distros from Arch to Xubuntu. I could say Zorin, but I have not tested Zorin on this machine, yet. __{{emoticon}}__

It will be a challenge for you to see if you can do it better from core than the stock setups. What video does it have in it?

It looks like if you could find cheap parts, ie memory, video, hard drive, you either do or could have a pretty darn good machine considering its age, and I think a good one to run antiX.

Max mem is 2 gb and you can get an faster ATI video card for it. It has USB 2.0 so my guess is it will be able to run the antiX 14.3 alpha, too.

Greetings, antiX Forum.

About how I got here...
It was a combination of things.
1. I'm cheap and I have a couple of old PCs, one a Dell Inspiron 1150, the other is this off brand Celeron desktop.
2. Both had Microsoft's XP OS, and were running with all the speed of refrigerated molasses.
3. In the past I used UNIX. Having worked for AT&T, I knew UNIX before I knew DOS. I want to get to know it again, just for the fun of it.
4. I needed a compact UNIX-inspired OS to replace the XP molasses. This led to antiX and a search which landed me here.

I'm looking forward to getting to you you folks as I get into this new hobby.

Hank

This hobby can absorb quite a bit of your spare time if you let it, so much interesting stuff you can do, & all for free, unlike certain O/Ses, enjoy. __{{emoticon}}__

I used ubuntu about 2 years,I try MX-14 because I want to setup a wifi hotspot to an old computer