I'm still testing antiX-M12 before jumping in with both feet. One thing that immediately stands out to me is that antiX uses about one third the amount of RAM that an equivalent Debian installation does. How do you do it? Is it the"X-factor"?

It's the (anti)X-factor __{{emoticon}}__

Seriously, it is down to disabling as many daemons/services as possible.

BTW Enjoy antiX-12 (note no"M")

anticapitalista wrote:Seriously, it is down to disabling as many daemons/services as possible.

Hi,

I have done that a few times with Ubuntu boxes, and I am sure none could have finished a boot in live on the PIII where I installed antiX 12 recently. What about the kernel antiX 3.5.0 i486 ? Have you done much on special configurations for it to make it whole lighter ? Or is is just the fact that it has optimisation for the i486 only ?

anticapitalista wrote: Seriously, it is down to disabling as many daemons/services as possible.

It's gotta be more than that. It's using one third to one half the RAM of an equivalent Debian install, and about the same as Damn Small Linux, which uses xvesa. However you do it, it's amazing.