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Welcome to antiX.

About antiX

antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install linux live CD distribution based on Debian Testing and MEPIS for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the "Magic of Mepis" in an environment suitable for old computers. So don't throw away that old computer yet! The goal of antiX is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both newcomers and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 64MB old PII 266 systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes. 128MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX. The installer needs minimum 2.2GB hard disk size. antiX can also be used as a fast-booting rescue cd.

At the moment antiX-M11 comes as a full distro (c680MB), a base distro (c360MB) and a new core distro (c115MB) all for 486 (PI and K5/K6 AMD) and 686 kernels. For those who wish to have total control over the install, use antiX-core and build up.

Present released version, 03 May 2011: antiX-M11 'Jayaben Desai' , antiX-M11-base and antiX-M11-core

News

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05 March 2012

antiX-test2 images available for testing

10 months on from the release of antiX-M11 series, we now make available for testing our antiX-12 series.

3 versions to play with:

full (650MB) - features 5 windows managers! icewm(default), fluxbox, jwm (all with or without a Rox desktop) wmii and dwm. LibreOffice replaces Abiword and gnumeric. Iceweasel 10 replaces iceape, claws-mail included as email client. qmmp replaced by the mighty xmms, yad replaces zenity, thunar removed and replaced with spacefm and sunflower, cheese added, Asian fonts removed and many other changes including ability to create a live.iso snapshot of installed system (thanks to refracta-snapshot application).

base (330MB) - features fluxbox, jwm, wmii and dwm. iceweasel 10, base edition of antiX-control-centre.

core (115MB) - no X, cli-installer only.

Both full and base use Debian Testing repos by default and all applications upgraded via Debian 'Testing' repositories up to 04 March 2012.

core uses Debian Stable repos.

All versions use the latest kernel available (3.2.9) - customised for antiX to allow booting with PI and AMD K5/K6 CPUs.

Note: antiX now has its own repo (thanks to Dave).

All built from scratch using debootstrap. This version of antiX is not remastered from MEPIS nor any other existing iso.

Vast improvements in running live persistence. To test out live persistence see the thread. Booting live/frugal with persistence from ntfs (windows) partition should work, though it is not advised. Use fat or ext instead. Documentation available in /usr/share/antiX/live-boot-docs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Testing/

http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/Testing/

Known issues:

  • Installing grub to root using installer fails, instead install to MBR or use no grub option and add manually afterwards.
  • Linux headers broken. Fixed with apt-get dist-upgrade. (Thanks to Ikey of SolusOS for the fix)

06 December 2011

Since antiX-M11 was released about 7 months ago, the first dist-upgrade/upgrade is likely to be huge. You may encounter an issue with myspell-el-gr. If you do not need Greek, before doing upgrade, remove it

apt-get purge myspell-el-gr apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade.

Also see bug-fixes in Old News below.

Old News

11 May 2011

Bug-fixes

  • Install libxine1-all-plugins for goggles media manager and gxine to work correctly.
  • If firmware-b43legacy-installer fails to upgrade, just remove it. 
  # apt-get purge firmware-b43legacy-installer
  # apt-get -f install


03 May 2011

antiX-M11 'Jayaben Desai' released

Just over a year since the release of antiX-M8.5, the antiX-team are pleased to announce that antiX MEPIS 11 'Jayaben Desai' - a fast, light, very flexible and complete desktop and livecd based on Debian Testing and SimplyMEPIS - is now available in full, base and core versions (for 686 and 486 kernel all using hybridiso). This release defaults to a fully customised icewm-Rox desktop (fluxbox, wmii and dwm are also installed) using a SimplyMEPIS 2.6.36-4 kernel, our own assistants to help configuration, and the usual range of applications for desktop use. Latest Iceape (2.0.13-1) for internet needs, Abiword (2.8.6) and gnumeric (1.10.14) for office use, qmmp and goggles music manager (0.12.1) for audio, gxine, mplayer and gnome-mplayer for video, gppp (dial-up), wicd (1.7), umt-panel2 (from aptosid) for GPRS/UMTS/3G and ceni (2.21) for network connection, pidgin (2.7.11) for chat. Many cli apps are also included such as Alpine for email, moc for audio, elinks for browsing, abcde and ripit for cd ripping and much more. Features include a cli-installer script for fast and light install, live with persistence, 'remaster on the fly', new boot cheatcodes for setting dpi and desktop windows manager with or without icons, antix2usb to easily install to usb stick. Many languages are fully supported out of the box with the language chosen at live CD boot carrying over to install. Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are included as well as ibus in the full version.

antiX works on computers with as little as 64 MB RAM, though 128MB RAM is the recommended minimum and the 486 kernel version should work on AMD K5/k6. antiX is fast and has low RAM usage running live or installed.

Full Release notes for 'Jayaben Desai' (antiX-M11)

Main upgrades from 'Marek Edelman' (antiX-M8.5)

  • New antiX tools to configure system, user management, wallpaper and PC information.
  • MEPIS 2.6.36-4 kernel
  • Improved antiX-Control Centre, new options.
  • New icewm/fluxbox menu structure
  • Improved and extended themes and artwork for icewm and fluxbox
  • Localisation of antiX apps extended
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts included in antiX-full, as well as ibus.
  • meta-installer to install kde4, xfce, lxde, gnome and lite versions. LibreOffice available too.
  • wallpaper is now set by feh and nitrogen is removed.
  • Thunar replaces pcmanfm
  • xfburn replaces gnomebaker
  • no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is created by default, option to create one by removing the noxorg cheat at boot.
  • umt-panel2 (from aptosid) added for GPRS/UMTS/3G
  • vim added by request
  • isolinux used instead of grub in live mode
  • hybridiso
  • adblock added to improve internet surfing with low RAM.
  • X.org 7.5
  • Rox-filer 2.10
  • fluxbox 1.3.1
  • wicd 1.7 with wicd-ncurses added
  • pidgin 2.7.11
  • ceni 2.21
  • grub-legacy
  • zathura added
  • cdw added
  • apt-show-versions added
  • qmmp replaces xmms
  • file-roller replaces xarchive
  • elinks-lite replaces links2
  • cherokee replaces lighttpd
  • idesk removed
  • umtsmon removed
  • mpd/ncmpcpp/mpdpss removed
  • osmo removed
  • Samba/pyneighborhood added
  • install-meta applications updated
  • Extra cheatcodes at boot menu
  • speedcrunch added
  • toshset added
  • prism2-usb-firmware-installer added
  • volumeicon added
  • fancy-prompts script added

All apps: apt-get dist-upgrade on 01 May 2011.

Some quick advice:

1. Choose your language before installation by pressing F2 at live boot grub screen or typing lang=XX (XX= your language eg lang=ru).

2. Choose your prefered timezone by pressing F3 at live boot grub screen or typing tz=XX/YY (XX/YY = Continent/City eg tz=Europe/Athens).

3. Have a read of the cheat options by pressing F1 at live boot grub screen. See cheats below.

4. Default has nouveau disabled and vga is set to auto-detect. You may need to add cheats to get the screen resolution of your choice. Press F1 at live boot screen for options.

5. Use sgfxi (or smxi) to install nvidia/ATI drivers.

6. As antiX is a 'rolling release' distro it is advisable to run regular dist-upgrades. Using apt-get or install and use aptitude (but keep to one) from the command line is recommended, as is using the smxi script. Synaptic is best used for installing/upgrading individual packages.

7. You can safely use liquorix, aptosid and Debian kernels in antiX (if you wish). Use smxi.

8. You can set the autologin feature of SLiM in antiX Control Centre. You can also toggle F1 at the login screen to choose your desired desktop. Rox desktop (with icons) is available.

9. To install antiX to a usb device use the antix2usb-gui application or isohybrid.

10. Have a read of the antiX FAQ and the 'How To' articles at the antiX main site.

11. Cheatcode options that carry over to install.

  • desktop=fluxbox (or wmii, dwm for live)
  • dpi=xx (XX=a number. Default is 96)
  • noRox (Disables Rox desktop)


Thanks to everyone involved in antiX and especially to these people for work on antiX-M11:

  • BitJam for further improvements to antiX-live use. (linuxrc) and for fancy-prompts script.
  • Burt Holland for writing the cli-installer script. Fantastic addition to antiX.
  • Dave for the new antiX scripts. (antix-system, user-management, inxi-gui, wallpaper, add-key, add-start). Another wonderful addition to antiX.
  • Translators at antiX Launchpad and eselma (Catalan), secipolla (Brazilian), ICE-M (Romanian), clandestine (Brazilian), bozhkov (Bulgarian), atcl (German), Hannes Worst (Dutch), Sombreros (French), megatotoro (Spanish), Spartak77 (Italian), Utopia (Swedish), Hosuli (Finnish), Kuvaly (Czech), Piotr StrÄ™bski (Polish), Sergiy Gavrylov (Ukrainian) and all those who contributed translations to previous releases.
  • h2 for integrating the smxi script into antiX and for inxi, sgfxi, svmi. (http://smxi.org)
  • oldhoghead, dolphin_oracle, rokytnji, masinick, Dave, ice-m, eriefisher, lagopus, clandestine, Cuttlefish, drg, secipolla and others I may have forgotten for testing, contributing to antiX and promoting antiX as widely as possible.
  • SliTaz for mountbox
  • old sidux team for install-meta package
  • Maato for volumeicon http://softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html
  • carlops for hosting antiX at mepisimo.

All artwork is from one of the following sources.

not forgetting, of course,

  • Warren at MEPIS
  • antiX Community
  • MEPIS Community
  • Debian team and volunteers.
  • All software developers.

and all users, testers, suggesters, torrent seeders and friends at antiX and MEPIS forums.

and many more...

anticapitalista Thessaloniki 03 May 2011.


07 February 2011

Upgrading antiX-M8.5 to squeeze

From a fresh install of antiX-M8.5. Make sure you have plenty of space on your root partition and a fast and reliable internet connection.

Good luck!

1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list - Comment out the Testing repos, uncomment the first 2 in the stable repos and change the word stable to squeeze - Change all references to lenny to squeeze - remove the goggles repo - Do not enable the MEPIS repos.

2. Comment out halevt & in both /home/username/.fluxbox/startup and /home/username/.icewm/startup files.

3. Either remove wicd completely if you do not need it or create a user called demo by running the following in a root terminal. 

  adduser demo

4. back up your important data, just in case.

5. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

A fresh install upgraded 670 packages, removed 5 (ok), 88 newly installed. 454MB of archives downloaded, 190MB of additional space to be used.

6. Answer N (default) if asked if you want to accept maintainers version.

7. If the upgrade gives an error at end, try 

  apt-get -f install

8. Remove unwanted cruft. 

  apt-get autoremove
  deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove
  COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs dpkg -P

9. Update the inxi script 

  inxi -U

10. Reboot.


Congratulations to Debian on its release of Squeeze.


23 January 2011

The signing key for the MEPIS package pools expired Jan 22, 2011.

Here are the instructions from Warren of MEPIS.

http://www.mepis.org/node/154

Downloads

Torrents from LinuxTracker.org:

Mirrors/Download

Screenshots

sneekylinux video

antiX-M11 screenshots from easylinuxcds.com.

NB I have no connection with easylinuxcds.com, I have simply linked to the screenshots.

Quick Tips

  • Login as 'demo', password = 'demo'.
  • For root access, password = 'root'. Please do not login as root. It is totally unnecessary.
  • Use 'sux' rather than 'su' when opening GUI apps as root in a terminal.
  • Sudo is not configured by default. antiX is not Ubuntu!
  • To boot from floppy, I suggest SmartBootManager.
  • antiX can also boot from an .iso file on a hard-drive. Boot from iso on hard-disk This is very fast.
  • antiX can also be installed as a livecd to usb. Using a live-usb-cd is very fast.
  • This site is under construction. For questions, comments, please use the antiX forum or the antiX forum on MepisLovers
  • There is also a lot of information suitable for antiX in the MEPIS wiki.
  • Link to full list of applications used in antiX. antiX-M11 antiX-M11-base antiX-M11-core
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