MepisantiX-xfce

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-08 22:37

Some of you may know already.

MEPIS and antiX have come together to provide an xfce4.10 spin. This is still in alpha stage, but is already looking pretty good.

It is 'middleweight' (for you boxing fans) in that it is heavier than a typical antiX-full, but lighter than MEPIS kde. It seems to be pretty light as far as xfce distros go and includes more bells and whistles. It is based on Debian Wheezy and 'modernised' using dDebian-backports and MEPIS Community repos. Kernel used is 3.11.0.

It fits on a cd (just) and includes libreoffice.
grub2 is used
Includes antiX-installer (modified)
Includes antiX persistence and remastering of live set up
antiX live scripts used
antix-snapshot included
vlc for video
clementine for audio
live iso is multi-lingual

rust collector · posted: 2014-01-08 23:38

Umm, oh... ok, when can I try it?

rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-09 01:06

When Jerry in New York says it is ready. You can check on the
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Patience, grasshopper. __{{emoticon}}__

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2014-01-09 03:22

pretty excited here!

my antix-core xfce 4.10 install with the 3.11 kernel is pretty sweet.

***dusting off mepiscommunity.org account***

time to go say hi to those mepis guys!

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-01-09 03:53

I guess its is now the time for me to expand my horizons and take a look see. No telling what I might learn. __{{emoticon}}__

rust collector · posted: 2014-01-09 04:14

I have to go to New York and have a"chat" with Jerry, then...

rokytnji wrote:When Jerry in New York says it is ready. You can check on the
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Patience, grasshopper. __{{emoticon}}__

Yea right
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fatmac · posted: 2014-01-09 10:49

I hope this doesn't mean that you are going to go back to using Mepis as base rather than 'plain' Debian for AntiX itself (?!).

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-09 11:24

fatmac wrote:I hope this doesn't mean that you are going to go back to using Mepis as base rather than 'plain' Debian for AntiX itself (?!).

The other way round. MEPIS-xfce is using antiX-Debian base.
This version is built using the antiX build scripts.

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-01-09 14:03

Like anticapitalista said, MEPIS-xfce is using antiX-Debian. Let's hope it is as tight and the 386 version fits a cd.

equimanthorn · posted: 2014-01-09 19:31

Wow ! Is like a Antix derivate ?
I like to try it

haxu · posted: 2014-01-22 10:35

Well done Anticapitalist and Warren, just installed MX, great!
no worries at all, connected initially with Sakis3g and installed the single
package umts panel and I am away... I am an xfce fan and Always have a bar on the left. HA,
I hope this is the okay place for a bit of excited feedback.
Great Job, bye for now

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-22 14:50

haxu - you may have got pre-beta1.

Anyhow, new name and now publicly available.

Continue in this thread.

mx-14-beta1-available-t4816.html

nadir · posted: 2014-01-23 10:23

That are good news.
I added xfce4 to antix a few times on my own, so in general for me it ain't that much of an advantage (i will miss the bells and whistles, but probably don't care for them anyway __{{emoticon}}__ ).
Distributions which fit on a CD are always a good thing (and not easy to be found, these days).