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acidburned · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 44 Location: sioux city iowa

well it runs great as a live cd and also the toram option.installed on my p4 128mb test puter,and its running fine.thanxs for adding streamtuner.
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moron · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 192 Location: NC - USA

Live CD
Dell C600 1.0Ghz P3 Swap = 1028152k

64 MB
Grub to Login = 4min 10sec
Login to Load = 2min

* does load but not operational
mouse jerky
IceWeasel will not load

80 MB
Grub to Login = 2min 39sec
Login to Load = 30sec

* does load but not operational
mouse jerky
IceWeasel will not load

96 MB
Grub to Login = 1min 58sec
Login to Load = 12sec

operational
mouse okay
Abiword, Nano, Xboard, etc., run okay
IceWeasel will not load

128 MB
Grub to Login = 1min 49sec
Login to Load = 8sec

operational
mouse good
All programs will load (a bit slow)
IceWeasel loads in 1min

demo@mepis1~$ free . . .
mem
total 125544 used 123212 free 2332
buffers 27972 cached 51496
swap used = 12572

256 MB
Grub to Login = 46sec
Login to Load = 5sec

Everything works very well
IceWeasel loads in 18sec

demo@mepis1~$ free. . .
mem
total 255492 used 242320 free 13172
buffers 52600 cached 142352
swap used = 168

Hope you can use the info.

moron · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 192 Location: NC - USA

VBox Install
2.9 Ghz P4 Swap=530MB

64 MB
grub to login = 52sec
login to load = 7sec

~free . . .
mem
total 60576 used 58936 free 1640
buffers 1228 cached 24540
swap used = 8k

Everything runs okay
IceWeasel loads in 10sec

80 MB
grub to login = 49sec
login to load = 6sec

~free . . .
mem
total 76784 used 74908 free 1876
buffers 3116 cached 37832
swap used = 0

runs well

96 MB
grub to login = 46sec
login to load = 5sec

~free . . .
mem
total 93040 used 90404 free 2636
buffers 4896 cached 50808
swap used = 0

runs well

128 MB
grub to login = 46sec
login to load = 4sec

~free . . .
mem
total 125552 used 90360 free 35192
buffers 4884 cached 50800
swap used = 0

runs very well

* I did not test beyond 128 MB since all is well there

Thanks
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lydia · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 15 Location: santa barbara,ca

Well, congrats I really love the new theme and of course the renaming of the default wallpaper. It seems that it boots faster too. I have a couple of old desktops piling up in the front closet that have been donated for some of the kids who don't have computers in our H.S group and this weekend I will try installing AntiX on them. Do you think it would be better to add the kde-edu or gnome-edu packages, trying to figure out which would run better.

anticapitalista · Site Admin Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 942 Location: Greece

Hello lydia,

I would think that the gnome-edu packages would be better as antiX has quite a few gnome apps/libs.

It would be nice to know how those kids cope with antiX (and fluxbox or icewm).

Hello moron.

Thanks for the feedback. It shows that even with 64MB RAM + swap, antiX runs well once installed. I think it will also run 'reasonably' well with 48MB RAM.
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Subito Piano · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 55 Location: upstate NY

First -- just a very nice job! I've been a Mepis user for a couple years now -- but have always turned to Puppy for my low-end machines. However, i've just tried out antiX at both home and the school where i teach -- and instantly i can network everything, impose passwords, and share printers -- even with our slower computers. Really nice to be able to use either Mepis or antiX...and not having to re-learn everything for a different distro!!! Especially nice now that we've encountered a rather nasty virus on a Windows machine. (THAT teacher just switched to Linux Very Happy

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RC2 seems a nice little improvement over the initial release (login, appearance, streamtuner). Now, can one have a pinboard with icons and retain the background wallpaper? I couldn't figure out how to do that. Also -- i easily managed to turn the pinboard on automatically thru your instructions at antix.mepis.org BUT it might be a nice nod to us neophytes if we could choose both the WM and whether or not to use the pinboard at the login screen. (This is similar to the Mepis login screen and is exactly what Vector 5.8 [or Gold?] does.) Alternatively, perhaps antiX could remember the user's last choice for the next reboot: if i choose to engage the pinboard, it automatically engages it upon reboot and vice-versa. What do you think?

Also, is there search function or an option to log a preselected user in automatically? I didn't see either...

Anyway -- very nice work! Independent schools like ours have to take what they are offered and your work is making it quite worthwhile to do just that. Beyond that, there's just the satisfaction of standing up against the rampant comsumerism in our culture (gee, and i'm a capitalist!!)

Nice job and a hearty THANK YOU!

lydia · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 15 Location: santa barbara,ca

Yes I am inclined to agree with you about gnome. Most of the kids seem to be attracted to fluxbox while the parents seem to like icewm. The ice menu seems to confuse the younger children.

djrsml · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 17 Location: LaGrange, Indiana

I've got antiX M7 rc2 installed and running good! Everything went just fine with the installation and all, definitely impressed with it so far!