Swift Linux 0.0.3 is now available

swiftlinuxcreator · posted: 2011-01-22 19:00

Swift Linux 0.0.3 is now available. Swift Linux is based on the full version of antiX Linux for the 686 processor. Swift Linux is a very lightweight AND user-friendly distro that uses the large Debian repository. Other distros can compete with Swift Linux on one or even two of these criteria, but NONE can compete with Swift Linux on all three.

There are two main editions, Diet Swift Linux and Swift Linux. Diet Swift Linux has neither OpenOffice nor extra forensic/rescue/recovery programs. The forensic/rescue/recovery programs of Forensic Swift Linux have now been added to regular Swift Linux.

There are now four special editions of Swift Linux: Taylor Swift Linux, iCarly Swift Linux, Magnum P.I. Swift Linux, and NASCAR Swift Linux. All special editions are regular Swift Linux with special wallpaper and a special audio clip that plays when you boot up. There is NO official status whatsoever. Thus, these special editions are just marketing gimmicks to promote Linux.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-22 19:11

Wooohoooooo. We are the borg. You will be assimilated. We got a fork now. Just like the big boys .

Ubuntu, Fedora, Puppy, watch out. Here comes AntiX. __{{emoticon}}__

Need some links, md5sums, What Desktops, yadda yadda yadda. Looking forward to making a persistent usb to play on.

swiftlinuxcreator · posted: 2011-01-22 19:13

The URL is
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newbody · posted: 2011-02-08 19:39

Hi there Swiftlinuxcreator

How is it more user friendly compared to AntiX? I know I am not a typical user of Linux. I am totally computer challenged. I have severe ADHD making me too all over the place for to be able to be structured and one step at a time.

I visited your forum on Yahoo. one month and you most likely are on travel or something. A guys there posted and no comment from you.

Could you not join some easier board to use? I fail to be on Yahoo. Too complicated with joining them and everything.

I fail to mount the HDD in frugal install due to me not priv to do the ntfs-3g thing. I guess Demo is not supposed to. I booted in frugal install using iso boot on NTFS.
How do I get ntfs-3g going for me?

newbody · posted: 2011-02-08 19:41

Hi there Ro, we end up on same forums now and then __{{emoticon}}__

Is it okay to talk Swift here or is that maybe a huge derail from AntiX talk?

I know nothing but it seems it is almost a twin to Antix, not much difference is it?

rokytnji · posted: 2011-02-08 19:57

newbody wrote:Hi there Ro, we end up on same forums now and then __{{emoticon}}__

Is it okay to talk Swift here or is that maybe a huge derail from AntiX talk?

I know nothing but it seems it is almost a twin to Antix, not much difference is it?

Should not be much difference except for GUI Desktop setup nooby. Under the hood It should be pure antiX unless Jason Hsu has tweaked any scripts or /etc/apt/sources.list which I don't think he has done. Forget sfs. That is a Puppy specific thing. Think of Debian when thinking AntiX. Contact info for swift Linux is

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Though I see no problem asking here either. If you are thinking of doing a AntiX frugal install inside of Windows like Puppy or Tiny Core does. I don't think that is possible, __{{emoticon}}__ though I could be wrong (it happens).

newbody · posted: 2011-02-08 20:27

Hi, Thanks if AntiX boot on NTFS I will know in some ten minutes from now. I trust it does because one year ago I had it on my then most expensive HP/Compaq Vista Desktop __{{emoticon}}__

It even wrote to the rescue partition. So should be able to boot on my Acer D250 too but one never know.

Swift do boot. I wrote from within it just some 30 minutes ago or so here on the forum. Now I am back in Puppy downloading antiX-M8 and will boot it frugally as from iso boot like I do with Swift.

So will be interesting. So now when it has the name antiX-M8.iso that is the final version then? the 8.5 being a develop version to test thing before setting the standard with M8?

I'm one year behind sorry

Oops sorry I downloaded the wrong iso did I not? I should have used this one instead?
antiX-M8-base.iso

Edit anyway it failed to boot with same code as Swift booted by. So obviously he has changed something to teh better __{{emoticon}}__ I mean his booted and AntiX did not.

So now I will look for what code I did use on the Vista machine and copy that one and see how that goes.

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-02-08 22:05

antiX-M8 was released on 13 February 2009.
Since then, there have been 2 releases.
antiX-M8.2 'Tȟašúŋke Witkó' released on 24 July 2009 and antiX-M8.5 'Marek Edelman' released on 12 April 2010.

Latest testing releases, soon to go final is antiX-M11.
See here for some downloads.

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As far as I know, swiftlinux hasn't changed anything as far as persistence is concerned. swiftlinux is based off antiX-M8.5.

newbody · posted: 2011-02-09 16:36

Thanks I will download from that place then.

Swift booted on NTFS for me but same grub4DOS menu.lst with AntiX 8.0 did not boot it fail to find files it wants to have. I guess it wants to find it on the CD or USB and now all is on HDD. Are there no cheat code that says Don't look in CD or USB look here in sda3/antiX/ directory?

Oops I don't know if I have a 686 machine. Poor memory and fail to know how to find out.

Maybe that explains why it fail. My Acer D250 maybe is a too cheap engine?

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-02-09 16:38

antiX-M8.5 and later can do what swiftlinux can do (and more)

newbody · posted: 2011-02-09 17:15

Yes that is why I am active here and want to get it going. But it gives error while booting.

How can I take a copy of the error? To write it down is too much and not easy to get right.

I boot on NTFS and use these grub4dos memu lsts.

title swift
root (hd0,2)
kernel /swift/vmlinuz vga=791 fromhd=/dev/sda3 fromiso=/swift/swiftlinux-0_0_3.iso lang=se drvr=intel xres=1024x768
initrd /swift/initrd.gz

I had the same for AntiX but changed swift dir to antiX dir and the antix.iso instead of swift.iso and swifts boots but antiX fails to boot.