Been using AntiX for a few weeks now, it's lightning fast on my Dell Inspiron 6400. How do I get security updates, how do i keep my programs up to date, ho do I add new programs (opera, libreoffice) to AntiX. AntiX is light and very fast, sure it demands more input from you but that is the whole fun of it. Thanks, 645dood.

Hello and welcome to Antix:

To do updates, open a terminal, then type su, enter your password and then type:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

You can add programs using synaptic, which can be accessed from Control Center.

I hope this helps.

Thank you plvera, I open the root terminal, enter my password and type.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Is this not correct.
Lastly do I need a firewall and any rootkit prgrams.
645dood

Yes, apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade

You don't need a rootkit program, but if you really want one there's rkhunter and chkrootkit. Both are command line programs. You should have ufw that starts on boot. There's agui for it. Just go to the control center - network - manage firewall.

To get opera, you have to add their repository to your sources list. So, you'd open up your terminal and do something like this
su

geany /etc/apt/sources.list

deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://deb.opera.com/opera/"
linktext was:"http://deb.opera.com/opera/"
====================================
testing non-free

Then save and then type or copy & paste in the terminal

wget -O -
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://deb.opera.com/archive.key"
linktext was:"http://deb.opera.com/archive.key"
====================================
| apt-key add -

apt-get update

apt-get install opera

Howdy and Welcome. Use the Help>antix>antix FAQ in Menu to acquaint your self with antiX. A lot of your questions are covered in there already.

Lot's of good stuff in our Help Menu vs what you are used to maybe .

Thank you all for your great info. Instead of going through the menus to find what I want how do I pin programs to the desktop, so I can simply click on the desktop icon to open. I can't seem to find any info anywhere. Thank you again, 645dood.

For Icewm with rox or Fluxbox with rox. Just go to /usr/bin or /usr/share/applications and drag and drop to desktop.

You can set icon from /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons.

645dood, welcome to antiX, and have a read of the FAQ in the Documents folder. lots of useful information in there.

Thank you very much again, I do apologies for the nood questions but how do I get into /usr/bin or /usr/share/applications to pin programs to the desktop, 645dood.

menu --> run
type: rox-filer /usr/share/applications
press: ok
drag and drop on desktop

Hi Dave, Thank you very much. I enjoy using AntiX M11 it is different to other O/S's and is lightning fast. 645dood.

Hi, sorry abount the nood question how do I get the menu bar from the bottom to the top, apologies if this has been answered before.

if you are using icewm (default) then
menu --> run
type: /usr/local/bin/icewmcc/icewmcc.sh
press: ok

if you are using fluxbox then
right click on the menu bar and select top

Thank you Dave.

Hi Dave, I love AntiX icemw however I want to use the Debian Stable release how would you adjust your source list to accept the stable release. Thanks again, 645dood.