danish wrote:First, I must say, that so far I am impressed with antix. I have absolutely no experience with linux, yet I found it simple to install it. Also, I was able to connect to my wireless without any problems at all (I have a broadcom 43xx). Anyway, I decided to try Antix to bring an old laptop with a PIII 733 MHz processor and 128 MB RAm back to life (it used to run Windows 2000), and it worked - it is a far more responsive mashine now than before - and probably boots 5 times faster (including the time used by the anti-virus program.
I hope to use this old laptop as an extra laptop for the children, when they are travelling and stuff, so I intend to keep it absolutely free from all files of great importance - it should be a laptop, that the children can bring on the train, without us worrying if it falls into the wrong hands.
I would like to make Rox the permanent window manager. It says in the helptext I have found (under docs):
To make it permanent, right click the .fluxbox/startup file > open as text > and uncomment the last line
But I cannot find this file anywhere. Where should I look?
I can definitely attest to what you are saying. Most of the systems I have now run very well, and I use antiX on them mostly when I am in a hurry. But one of them, a Dell Dimension 4100 desktop system, was well equipped, back in 2000-2001. I got it from Ziff Davis Media in order to perform and write software reviews for them on a freelance basis. The system was partial compensation for the work, plus it enabled me to do additional reviews.
That system originally came with Windows 2000, and it ran well (it did not have Anti Virus software or any other"choke-ware" on it). Later, I installed Windows XP in its place and it worked OK for a while, but the latest service pack was a nightmare to get on it. I have around a 5 GB partition for XP, which at one time was fine, but it is barely enough now, and a large service pack uses up all available space, takes hours to complete, and requires me to remove just about everything in order to get the update completed, then reinstall what I need - which I've pared down CONSIDERABLY!
In contrast, on that same system, I have at least one, maybe two antiX partitions, containing various antiX releases. All of them work just fine, in fact, they are easily the fastest thing on the system at this point. About the only thing installed on the hard drive that comes even close to matching the performance of antiX is Xubuntu, and Xubuntu runs fine, but it is no match for antiX! SimplyMEPIS and sidux also run well, but unless I replace the default window managers with something lighter, they take a while to login and make the desktop available for use. No such problem ever with antiX. So my experience with a system having even a bit more CPU cycles than your system and double the memory (1 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM) still runs the old stuff, and once logged in, they all work, but they are sluggish starting - no such issues at all with antiX!