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I started using linux about 5 years ago with Suse 8.2 Pro and stopped after a crash and lost weeks of emails.
Went back to windows XP for years and with the release of Vista I decided to try my hand at linux again.
Started With Mepis 6.5 and switched to Mint 4 when it came out. I prefer gnome over kde and am currently running ubuntu 8.04 on my main rig and really liking it. I also am running Mandriva 2008.1 on my Eee PC.

I was looking for a lean distro to run on my Intel D201GLY2 system and found this one

I have it installed and running but never having used fluebox before, I have questions which I will post shortly

Welcome to antiX!

If you have never used fluxbox before, you might profit from reading through the antiX FAQ document that is in /home/username/Documents.

I'm at work so I can not.

Is this info on this site somewhere ?

No but that's a good idea! Here is a draft you can look at until you see the final one on your own computer:

http://sblinux.org/antix/index.html

Thanks for the link.

There is nothing on setting up networking however ...

I'll check the docs when I get home.

Right, because it is not particular to antiX and most of what you need is in the MEPIS Wiki:

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Networking

Or the MEPIS User's Manual:

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/user_ ... index.html

Hey yamawho, welcome to the antiX forums & the wonderful world of "Fluxbox"... TADA!!! Hope you're enjoying antiX and getting your network probs sorted? (I still haven't done mine yet.... i keep putting it off. It's so much easier when you use Nautilus!) LOL!!

DJiNN wrote:It's so much easier when you use Nautilus! LOL!!

Thanks for the welcome !

I know what you mean ...

I decided to try installing gnome thru synaptic yesterday.
It downloaded 312 files and started up dating at 6:00PM.
I left home around 8:00AM and it was still at it ...

If it's still at it when I get home I'll reinstall a I guess.

yamawho wrote:

DJiNN wrote:It's so much easier when you use Nautilus! LOL!!

Thanks for the welcome !

I know what you mean ...

I decided to try installing gnome thru synaptic yesterday.
It downloaded 312 files and started up dating at 6:00PM.
I left home around 8:00AM and it was still at it ...

If it's still at it when I get home I'll reinstall a I guess.

Ouch!! You can install Nautilus on it's own if that's all you're after? Or if you're a KDE fan then grab Konqueror. You'll get some deps & libs etc, but it's lighter than installing a whole DE, and it'll pretty much take care of you're networking problems. Konqueror's great for that, and it's a really good browser as well.

I seem to remember looking for Nautilus in synaptic and not seeing it ... oh well

Although I was using KDE in mepis 6.5, the K this and K that thing was driving me batty.

yamawho wrote:I seem to remember looking for Nautilus in synaptic and not seeing it ... oh well

Hmmm, i'm sure it's available. It's a file manager so should be available. Yep, just checked & it's available on it's own. Maybe remove what you installed with Gnome and then install Nautilus?

Although I was using KDE in mepis 6.5, the K this and K that thing was driving me batty.

LOL!! That's the number one complaint that i read so often about KDE (Me included) which is a shame because KDE is really good.

Hi,

Should not most of this thread be in something like "Help on networking needed"

I'm glad I know (at least till now) it is here and hope to find it again after a few weeks/monts from now.

Oh, by the way: Welcome