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antiX 17 and MX-17 - two EXCELLENT distributions!

For those interested in antiX and MX, two distributions that grew and evolved from the old MEPIS days - but not necessarily in SIZE - these distributions are- within the general bloat that we see across most applications, a pleasant move (about as far as they can go, given the upstream code inherited) toward modest size and efficiency, and they are also models of stability and usefulness.

Distribution Release: antiX 17 release is announced on DistroWatch at https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10004 (2017-10-25 release notice)

Distribution Release: MX Linux 17 release is announced on DistroWatch at https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10063 (2017-12-15 release notice)

They're still around? With 32-bit being faded out? Great! I have some rigs that need an update/new OS...all 32-bit...thanks for posting :)
Melissa

Absolutely loving mx-17 amd64. b43 broadcom wireless works out of the box. I use the xfce(ish) desktop and the menu seems a bit like cinnamon desktop. Thunar right click file sharing is a blessing. mx is fast, easy on resources and breaths new life into an old Dell 1521 inspiron. I like it so much, I installed it to my quad core phenom2 asus board. The only thing missing is google-earth. can't get it to run properly, but it isn't a show-stopper. I have a tri-boot scenario going with win7, slackware64-current, and mx linux. Great Job guys an gals.. kudos to the developers

I've been using AntiX for several years now, always been reliable, & I see no reason not to keep on using it, unless something drastic happens to Linux, then I have my back up plan - OpenBSD. :)

I use 32-bit AntiX-17 on oldboy upstairs (500 MB ram) and I've installed the 64-bit version on a friend's computer. No complaints from either of us. It's systemd-free too, for those who care about that sort of thing.

AntiX 17 works well on my Intel Atom N270 Touchscreen netbook. It detects the touch screen out of the box .

MX 17 works just fine on single core P4 AMD Emachine Shop computer.

Both of my installs are covered in the antix forum under the hardware section.

i totally agree, i installed mx17 on 2 old laptops with no issues at all, and the support from the community is truly awesome

Installed google-earth through mx tools > mx package installer and it works great. It's an old google-earth build but it works just fine for me

I got a 1980 xl sportster that gets me around just as well as a 2017 xl sportster.

Quote:

It's an old

Sometimes you get what what your need.

Code:

harry@biker:~

$ pinxi -zv8 -y85

<snip>

System:

  Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.83-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 

  v: 4.9.2 Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 wm: IceWM 1.3.8 (Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64/i686) dm: slim 

  Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015 

Machine:

  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 serial: N/A 

  Chassis: type: 10 serial: N/A 

  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: N/A UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) 

  date: 05/25/2012 

<snip>

CPU:

  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 

  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB bogomips: 20752 

  Speed: 1204 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1204 2: 1211 3: 3101 

  4: 1209 

  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov 

  constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts eagerfpu epb ept erms est f16c 

  flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr 

  nonstop_tsc nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts 

  rdrand rdtscp sep smep smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc 

  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 

<snip>

Sensors:

  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A 

  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 

Repos:

  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 

  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/jessie jessie main nosystemd

  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 

  1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 

  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/palemoon.list 

  1: deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Debian_8.0/ /

  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/siduction.list 

  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 

Processes:

  CPU top: 5 

  1: cpu: 16.7% command: firefox-esr pid: 2750 mem: 329.0 MiB (2.0%) 

  2: cpu: 7.8% command: x pid: 2310 mem: 36.2 MiB (0.2%) 

  3: cpu: 0.6% command: roxterm pid: 6346 mem: 18.6 MiB (0.1%) 

  4: cpu: 0.2% command: python pid: 2314 mem: 10.9 MiB (0.0%) 

  5: cpu: 0.2% command: bash pid: 6349 mem: 4.26 MiB (0.0%) 

  Memory top: 5 

  1: mem: 329.0 MiB (2.0%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2750 cpu: 2.0% 

  2: mem: 36.2 MiB (0.2%) command: x pid: 2310 cpu: 0.2% 

  3: mem: 25.8 MiB (0.1%) command: python pid: 2704 cpu: 0.1% 

  4: mem: 22.8 MiB (0.1%) command: spacefm pid: 2628 cpu: 0.1% 

  5: mem: 20.5 MiB (0.1%) command: volumeicon pid: 2705 cpu: 0.1% 

<snip>

Info:

  Processes: 168 Uptime: 38m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 372.0 MiB (2.3%) 

  Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 4.9.2 alt: 4.8/4.9 

  Shell: bash v: 4.3.30 running in: roxterm pinxi: 3.0.04-11

All snips are troubleshooting readouts for the pinxi team which are too numerous to meet the forum requirements text limitations in a thread. Hence the snips.

But in case you are curious.

Here is what I left out.

https://cdn.scrot.moe/images/2018/04/29/screenshot2.jpg

MX Linux is getting ready to release MX18 soon.
In a very short time, MX Linux has zoomed in popularity, and that's for a reason.
After KDE5 came out, I had to find something simplier and luckily ended up with MX16
with which I was highly impressed. It is so good I am sticking with it instead of
upgrading to MX17. However MX17 users seem just as impressed. This is a great XFCE
distro that is worth a try because it just keeps getting better due to the hard work
of some talented people.

https://twitter.com/MX_Linux

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

https://m.facebook.com/groups/665300826967101/