[HAPPY] Antix-16 was so "bad" it caused me to be banned - and I LIKE it
 

Hello, Any...

I feel it necessary to raise an issue in this part of the forum, even though it is supposed to be raised in another part of the forum. (At least, I think that is the case.)

See; Antix-16 linux has just been released. Recently I tried Antix-15 and found it to be "good". Why? Well, 15 has an olde driver matching my olde video card on my olde system - and it flies! So I installed Antix-16, and it too feels really "good".

The reason I want to talk about it HERE, and specifically not in "Distros" section, is because I think it needs a fair suck of the sauce-bottle - and that's not necessarily a "flame" thing. The big-boy and curvy-girl Linuckes [word coined to mean "multiple linux"??] just "hang-out", not doing much, looking good, flexing muscles, doing fan-dances - and getting picked up just because they're "there". They don't have to do anything "hard", which leaves the others to languish until, finally, the skinny little things just "evapourate" into thin air.

Well; here's one reason why Antix is "good"... It does NOT use systemd.

Further, I believe that is part of the reason why it is noticeably fast and light. At install (32-bit) I had a small glitch getting my very old SiS video card working - BUT - once I did - ZoooOOOOOOM!!!

[Antix is based on Debian "Jessie".]

Additionally, I make this note... Last night, while looking through Synaptic Pkg Mgr, I discovered two packages which are worthy of mention:-

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To be clear, I am a Pnewbie [Post-Newbie; silent "n"; copyright waived] so I have no real hard-core ties to distros, spins and flavours. One of my (failing) criteria with Linuckes is that I have to be able to use it/them at GUI-rather-than-CLI level. Recently, I have had to get my hands dirty on that rule while attempting get my olde SiS graphics card usable in several Linuckes, but I see that as a positive now. For me, Antix-16 is also noteworthy as one of the few Linuckes that has a "...SiS..." driver available to work with.

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Finally, since I have deliberately sought to make this post in (seemingly) the wrong part of this (fantastic) LinuxQuestions forum (as stated at the Section's link), I wish to report myself for "abuse of the rules". And whilst I apologize profusely for that, I must also add that I am not really being sincere - and that probably amounts to further "abuse".

Indeed, since I have also broken my own rule of "NOT working at CLI level", I have actually decided to ban myself for a short period into future too. So, thank you Antix-16! [It was sweeeet!!! E8>) ]

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Regards,
aka boombaby

Yeah... I remember my first beer too.

Alrighty then. Give BBQ, Semplice, Debian experimental or unstable, Siduction, Aptosid, a spin then.

I run sis, savage, graphics piece of old crap hardware myself and the newer xorg in all distros plays havoc on my legacy computers.

I don't remember my 1st beer. Grandpa was a child abuser by today’s standards.

Or testing or unstable. One can pick and choose. But since you are still learning. I'll give you some slack.

No SLACK thanks. --> Antix-16!

Fin.

I wish I could get that sort of drive off of just one beer. I'm amazed.