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anticapitalista · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:05 am Post subject: antiX-M7.2-preview2

antiX-M7.2-preview2 will be available shortly for testing.

This should be the last one before final (hopefully final will be out at end of April/beginning of May).

preview2 is deliberately larger than preview1 by about 15MB as it includes gxine video player for those that like a dvd player that plays menus (Mplayer doesn't).

preview2 will not default to the rox-desktop, but it can be enabled by a simple edit.

Fluxbox-menu has been slightly altered (thanks to Jerry)

antiXcc is available, but not all the options as in preview1. The wallpaper option has been put back into the fluxbox menu.

mountpy has been included for those that wish to mount drives. rox and ivman work fine on my box automounting usb flash drives, but not usb harddrives. mountpy may help.

For those who try it out, and for preview1 in fact, think about the following.

1. Include gxine or not.
2. Include catfish search or not.
3. Include the rox apps in the home/demo/rox folder?
4. Comments on wallpaper/login screen.
5. Comments on choice of fluxbox style, conky style.
6. Anything else.

Remember, antiX is aiming to be as complete and light as possible for 128MB RAM boxes (installed). Also apps are only an apt-get away.

TIA
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DJiNN · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 262 Location: UK

OU812 · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 456 Location: California

I agree with your changes.

I think catfish or other search engine should be installed.

Even though mplayer may not be able to access dvd menus, it is probably the best choice since other apps require its presence. As for gxine, I think the user should decide.

If there's room maybe include easy tag?

john

Urban · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: United States

My solution for getting packages I wanted on the distro I was using:
A bash script that uses apt-get.

Every time I reinstall I just download my script from my server and run it on the fresh install. I even have it set to configure some config files.

Just a thought for those asking for more packages for a distro that is supposed to be lightweight.

DJiNN · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 262 Location: UK

Xeroid · Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Georgia, USA

I just did a hard disk install of antiX-M7.2-preview2 and I must say I'm surprised. For a preview2 this is very polished. Everything just works. Nice job guys! Very Happy

contents · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

Everything looks great so far, except the install option "Use entire disk" doesn't work for me. It did work for me with the Spartacus edition.

I have a PII MMX 266mz with 96 mb of ram. The Spartacus edition worked great for me.

Thanks for all of the work!

DJiNN · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 262 Location: UK

I've just installed preview on a PIII - 1Ghz with 700mb ram, and it's incredibly fast and responsive. Really looking forward to the final release.

Also, if anyone's looking for a slightly different desktop experience, i can recommend LXDE. I've got it running here using antiX as the base with deb testing repos, and it's just as fast and responsive as fluxbox, and WAY lighter than XFCE. Took a bit of messing about {only a small bit though} to get it installed, but well worth the effort.

Very Happy

contents · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

contents · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

Woops, after a couple more tries, the install of preview 2 worked. It's running great. (I suspect that the installation problems were caused by low system memory).

I also see now that gparted, and synaptic as well, are accessible through Settings-->Config-System. I guess I was expecting to find them out in the open. It makes sense, though, that they should be accessible though this menu--the names "gparted" and "synaptic" are not at all self-explanatory to new users.