I d/l Antix 8 roughly four days ago. I installed it on an old portable after making sure all was well with the live cd. Great, not a problem, I'll probably keep it on this computer permanently, however... When I tried to update by way of synaptic, it registered 243 M of updates. I use a wireless connection. That would be veeeeery many hours of d/l time, not to mention installation time. Isn't the version on the site the newest? Why such a big update?

No, I won't d/l again. I'll keep this version on the computer but I'd like to know how to make the process less of a drudge to update the installation I already have? Or at least cut some time or megs.

Nero
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Hi.

antiX uses the Testing repos of Debian by default, which meand it is a 'rolling' release ie once installed no need to install a later version, just keep updating the apps. This is why you are seeing such a big download.
You can change the repos to point to only Debian Stable if you wish and that would reduce the number of upgrades considerably.
You could also just install some stuff from the MEPIS repo, for example since release of antiX, MEPIS upgraded its kernel. You may or may not want to do so.

For a Stable system, your /etc/apt/sources.list would look like this: