OK so antiX-11-686 looks purty durned good on my AMD_64 desktop... Though I had to tweak a few things.

I installed E17 (my favorite WM/DE) but for some reason the session selector in slim didn't pick it up. So since I prefer to boot to console and use startx when I want the gui anyway, I tried to use update-rc.d to stop slim from actually running...

IE: But it decined to actually do it. So I got stubborn and used a root mc session to manually replace all the S01slim links with K01slim links, rebooted to a pure console session, created my own simple ~/.xinitrc, and used startx to fire up E17... And things were looking pretty good...

But I also had to eliminate some garbage in /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS="" In order that I could asign/use key bindings that depend on <shift>+<alt> being a seperate modifier combo from just <alt> {Aside from my persional E17 bindings that affected the abillity to use <shift>+<alt>+<a> to insert the path of the directory displayed in the other pannel to midnight commanders commad line} It also for some reason I can't figgure, affected the behavior of the"v" key binding in less, preventing it from opening the current file with EDITOR exported from my .bashrc (in my case that's vim) Which I was pleasently surprized to notice started working upon the next boot after setting those XKBOPTIONS to"".

Antway once I did all that, antiX works well on my desktop.

I'm a little puzzeled though about the text in my sources.list:

# MEPIS 11 series.
# Uncomment all MEPIS repos shown here to install headers and linux-kbuild
# from MEPIS repo for latest MEPIS kernel (2.6.36). Then comment back once installed.

The antiX-11-686.iso already installed the 2.6.36 kernel... And I'm not sure I understand the logic of only uncommenting that long enough to update the kernel???

Also, while iceweasel is a great drop in replacement for firefox which I use for secure connections to specific sites (like my bank) after which I always close the browser completely.
For generic browsing with multiple tabs left open to several sites (each of which might be positioned where I left off reading. I prefer to use a seperate browser. And for that, I like opera. So I uncommented the opera repository. (Though I'm wondering if it should be testing rather than squeeze for the rolling release configuration????)
Anyway uncommenting that line led to"apt-get update" complaining that there was no public key available. Which inturn led to an"apt-get install opera" warning that: I poked around in my old xubuntu sources notes and found an instruction on importing the key for the medibuntu repo, and browsed the opera repo untill I found a gpg file for squeeze, but: So I gotta ask, How do I import the gpg key for the opera repository????

jtwdyp wrote: So I gotta ask, How do I import the gpg key for the opera repository????

From a root terminal: antiX 11 uses testing repo sources. Squeeze has gone stable. Opera is still in squeeze repo though.

The antiX-11-686.iso already installed the 2.6.36 kernel... And I'm not sure I understand the logic of only uncommenting that long enough to update the kernel???

Don't touch Mepis repos. AntiX 11 by default is now completely Debian Testing (Wheezy).
If wanting a newer kernel. Look at Liqourix repos in sources.list.

Also. Running smxi in init. 3 boot as root will give choices on kernel upgrades also.
Plus Anti has posted kernel debs also.

afab4 wrote:

jtwdyp wrote: So I gotta ask, How do I import the gpg key for the opera repository????

From a root terminal:

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wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Thanks. And done...

antiX 11 uses testing repo sources. Squeeze has gone stable. Opera is still in squeeze repo though.

As long as it doesn't cause a conflict with the rest of the repos, I'm happy! Thanks again...

rokytnji wrote:

The antiX-11-686.iso already installed the 2.6.36 kernel... And I'm not sure I understand the logic of only uncommenting that long enough to update the kernel???

Don't touch Mepis repos. AntiX 11 by default is now completely Debian Testing (Wheezy).
If wanting a newer kernel. Look at Liqourix repos in sources.list.

And Thank You!
As it happens the Liquorix repos are already uncommented in my sources.list... Don't remember uncommenting them, but as long as they are the right ones, I can't see any reason to re-comment them...

Also. Running smxi in init. 3 boot as root will give choices on kernel upgrades also.
Plus Anti has posted kernel debs also.

Good to know! Thanks again.