antiX-forum

Hi people.

I have an OLD machine I am trying with antiX. It's was a 486, but I put a cpu in that makes it roughly a PII 463 with 192mb ram.

I too had been running puppy linux with the machine. I let my daughter beat on in. Puppy was the fastest distro I had tried. I had even tried a base debian with flux and rox, but puppy was still faster for some reason.

The thing about puppy that kills me is the dependency nightmare when trying to add apps.

So far antiX seems spry enough. With a debian based system I hope to get out of the dependency trap.

One question, which repo's can I use and not break the installation?

I am looking for opera, maybe firefox, and some applications for a MIDI keyboard. I want to simply use the keyboard to play over the sound card, loading different instruments/patches/banks.

What repo's can I explore?

Firefox is named IceWeasel in Debian due to branding issues.

For Opera, open synaptic and go to settings > repositories. Scroll down until you see opera and check that box to activate that repo. Then reload. Search for opera and you should now see a listing for it.

We're based on the testing branch of debian, so occasionally some packages do break; however, we can usually find a fix in a very short amount of time.

john

I added the opera repo, but guess ill have to just download a package as i wanted beta 2.

I was thinking about sid, but wanted to keep this box lean.

Thoughts on sid and an old box?

Side note: USB doesn't work out of the box with antix 8.2 on this machine, but I found a work around. This box uses the older USB 1.1. A fix that worked for me was creating file in /ect/int.d/. I named it local. Make it excecutable. Add these lines of text to it.

#! /bin/sh
echo N > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/old_scheme_first

That took me three hours to find. Maybe it will help someone else.

I'm impressed too !

Some friends gave me this old Dell Demension L933 pc. I told them I would wipe the hard drive and load a version of Linux on it and give to a young student to learn Linux on. I decided to try antiX since I used Mepis a few years ago. In fact Mepis was the first Linux distro that I used instead of windows for the first time in 2004. This has only a PIII 933mhz cpu w/ 374mb RAM. antiX has turned this into a very usable computer !

Thank you Warren for all you do