Hello to you all !
After some days of reading this forum I decide to use this great distro __{{emoticon}}__
I come from Milano,in the north of Italy,and after some years of Puppy Linux and Pc-BSD
I arrived here on my search for the best light distro for an old laptop Dell Latitude C600...
And I think Antix 7.5 is one of the best configurable light distro.
Ciao !
Paolo Equimanthorn
topic title: New Antixian from Italy
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equimanthornPosts: 75
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eriefishereriefisherPosts: 1,520
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Welcome to AntiX.
Puppy is nice but a little limited. It's a great light weight system to drop a windows user in front of and get going quickly. Have never tried any bsd's but I want to.
Puppy is nice but a little limited. It's a great light weight system to drop a windows user in front of and get going quickly. Have never tried any bsd's but I want to.
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anticapitalista
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#3
Have fun with antiX Paolo.
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OU812Posts: 1,081
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#4
Welcome, Paolo. I couldn't have said it better myself. (Except my background includes *buntu, zenwalk, vector, blag, and few others.)
john
john
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JawsThemeSwimming428Posts: 251
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Welcome to antiX! I'm sure you will find antiX to be VERY customizeable and everyone on this forum very helpful.
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masinickPosts: 1,139
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Welcome to antiX, Paolo! I find antiX to be an outstanding blend of a system that can be effectively used as:
1. A Live CD
2. A rescue CD
3. A lightweight, fast system
4. A highly extensible system that I can easily modify and create whatever kinds of systems suit my immediate needs.
Puppy is absolutely the smallest system I can use for anything other than very routine browsing. SliTAZ is the smallest distro of any kind that I have ever seen. It is good for browsing if using a wired network is possible. Not really strong enough for much else. DSL is really small and fast, but lacks good wireless support - I have never been able to get it to work with WPA-PSK, for instance. Puppy can do that, though, so for some basic tasks, Puppy can also get the job done. But at the end of the day, there are so many more things that antiX can do, it is simply more useful, more functional, and very competitive with Puppy on speed, though I suppose a super old system might still benefit from Puppy. For me, with a 7-8 year old Dell Dimension 4100 desktop as my currently oldest system in use (though I do have a few 400 MHz models collecting dust), antiX can do a lot more with that box. My laptop systems are great for additional functionality that Puppy and the others simply don't offer, at least not without plenty of additional customization.
Puppy is customizable, too, but at least for me, the antiX methods and tools, with MEPIS, Debian, Absolute Linux, and sidux procedures nicely integrated into a great overall package, antiX really allows me to use it effectively in any of the four modes I described at the beginning of my note.
Hope you enjoy using antiX. We are a friendly community here, and we look forward to seeing you around. Comments and suggestions are always welcome here!
1. A Live CD
2. A rescue CD
3. A lightweight, fast system
4. A highly extensible system that I can easily modify and create whatever kinds of systems suit my immediate needs.
Puppy is absolutely the smallest system I can use for anything other than very routine browsing. SliTAZ is the smallest distro of any kind that I have ever seen. It is good for browsing if using a wired network is possible. Not really strong enough for much else. DSL is really small and fast, but lacks good wireless support - I have never been able to get it to work with WPA-PSK, for instance. Puppy can do that, though, so for some basic tasks, Puppy can also get the job done. But at the end of the day, there are so many more things that antiX can do, it is simply more useful, more functional, and very competitive with Puppy on speed, though I suppose a super old system might still benefit from Puppy. For me, with a 7-8 year old Dell Dimension 4100 desktop as my currently oldest system in use (though I do have a few 400 MHz models collecting dust), antiX can do a lot more with that box. My laptop systems are great for additional functionality that Puppy and the others simply don't offer, at least not without plenty of additional customization.
Puppy is customizable, too, but at least for me, the antiX methods and tools, with MEPIS, Debian, Absolute Linux, and sidux procedures nicely integrated into a great overall package, antiX really allows me to use it effectively in any of the four modes I described at the beginning of my note.
Hope you enjoy using antiX. We are a friendly community here, and we look forward to seeing you around. Comments and suggestions are always welcome here!