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16 July 2008

antiX-M7.5-test2 available for testing.(392MB). tuxfamily.org and mepisimo

xdelta patches from test1-test2 available. xdelta patch from antiX-M7.2 to test2 available.

  • Now using smxi script
  • Fully customised icewm optional desktop
  • New controlcentre
  • apps updated as to 15 July 2008.

Have fun and post your thoughts, bugs etc. on antiX forum.

14 April 2008

antiX-M7.2-preview2.iso (c340MB) available for testing from tuxfamily.org

xdelta patch available from both sites.(c85MB) If you have antiX-M7.2-preview1 you can patch the iso file with the xdelta patch to produce antiX-M7.2-preview2.iso. See Mepis wiki for instructions.

  • Dist-upgraded to 13 April 2008.
  • Rox-desktop no longer enabled as default. Is available by a simple edit of fluxbox/startup file.
  • Further re-organisation of fluxbox menu.
  • Icewm menu re-configured slightly.
  • gxine added for dvd playback with menus.
  • mountpy added.

Have fun, post bugs, comments here or on the antiX forum

Final should be out in a couple of weeks.

31 March 2008

antiX-M7.2-preview1.iso (c325MB) available for testing from tuxfamily.org

If you have antiX-M7.2 you can patch the iso file with the xdelta patch to produce antiX-M7.2-preview1.iso. See Mepis wiki for instructions.

  • Dist-upgraded to 30 March 2008.
  • Rox-desktop enabled as default.
  • New Xtralean cheatcode. Try this to speed up boot, it disables a lot of services including ipw3945d (so if you have this, don't use Xtralean)
  • Some Rox apps included.
  • Catfish included
  • Bashburn cli burner included, but not in menu. Use a terminal.
  • Re-organised fluxbox menu
  • Some (basic) organisation of icewm menu
  • antiXcc has 2 parts at the moment. Called Control-User and Control-Admin. (Thanks to OU812)
  • ceni (thanks to sidux) can now be used as user (Thanks to Urban)
  • epdfview added (default, xdpf is still available)
  • osmo PIM added
  • new mplayer skin
  • new xmms skin

Hopefully bugs from beta have been fixed, ie xkill, logout and locales. By default locales is set to en_US.

Have fun, post bugs, comments here or on the antiX forum

20 March 2008

antiX-M7.2-base-beta1.iso (c190MB) available for testing.

This antiX version comes with all the Mepis Utilities to get you up and running easily and quickly plus iceweasel browser, rox-filer and leafpad editor. The rest is down to you!

Testers welcome. Comments and feedback on the antiX forum

19 March 2008

18 March 2008

antiX-M7.2-beta1.iso (c320MB) available for testing.

tuxfamily.org

Dist-upgraded to 16 March 2008.

New inclusions:

  • wicd
  • ceni (command line network, from sidux)
  • transmission (torrent)
  • gmpc (front end to mpd music daemon)
  • rox-terminal
  • geany replaces scite
  • claws-mail replaces sylpheed-claws-gtk1
  • aumix-gtk replaces aumix cli
  • gnome-commander replaces xfe

and a basic antiXcc (thanks to OU812).

At the moment I have kept the same graphics as Lysistrata, but they will be changed when antiX-M7.3 goes final.

The kernel is the same version, but has been patched to fix the vmsplice() issue. UnicornRider scripts are still included with adjustments for lean cheatcode. Extra UnicornRider script to (hopefully) auto-remove the proc errors when booting the newly installed antiX.

There is no need for users to remove their existing antiX-M7(.01).

Could testers please give feedback particularly about wicd, ceni and whether the proc messages during boot disappear when installed.

Have fun!


19 November 2007

antiX-base.iso available for testing

I have made available an antiX-base.iso of 176MB for those that want a basic Lysistrata install and the freedom to add apps of your choice. antiX-base has all the Mepis tools to help get you going and install to hd, but little else!

Included are:

  • fluxbox
  • links2
  • xterm
  • gparted
  • nano
  • MidnightCommander
  • sysvconfig
  • antiX cheat codes (lean, mean, nogui, kbd selection) written by UnicornRider

Get it from Allan/EnigmaOne and UnicornRider

Post comments, bugs on the antiX forum

22 October 2007

An xdelta patch is available for download for those that would like to experiment with some scripts now included in antiX. (Courtesy of UnicornRider). The scripts are ideally used in livecd mode and include cheatcodes nogui, lean, mean and kbd=ch (and others) to speed up and lighten a livecd boot as well as a script that automatically replaces the slim login screen box when antiX is installed to hard drive.

  • nogui = slim login manager is disabled.
  • lean = cupsd, lighttpd, rsync, powersaved and mpd are disabled at boot.
  • mean = disables network ie you will have to manually configure net connection via Admin/Tools>Mepis Admin>Network
  • kbd=ch = sets a Swiss-German keyboard

patch_rc2-rc3.delta and md5sums available here and from UnicornRider and Allan/EnigmaOne

13 October 2007

antiX-M7-rc2 (300MB) available from here from UnicornRider and also from Allan/EnigmaOne (Many thanks)

md5sum: f62bed142eebe9ebcf1645c1c8de7e05 antiX-M7-rc2.iso

Post comments, bugs on the antiX forum

This should be the last beta before final.

Changes:

  • Fluxbox upgraded to stable 1.0.0.
  • Apps upgraded as to 12 October.
  • Streamtuner, Pidgin, ffmpeg, mencoder, lighttpd added.
  • New fluxbox style.
  • New gtk2 style.
  • Livecd boot with 64MB RAM + 128 Swap should be ok. (Minimum RAM for livecd 48MB)
  • k5/k6 still not supported. (I'm working on it)


Added: xdelta file rc1-rc2 also available from the above mentioned sites.

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=tzbvf2blr5d


27 September 2007

More places to get antiX-M7-rc1 and antiX-beta2-r1 xdelta patch, thanks to MEPIS mirrors.

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/

ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/

md5sum: c164ed3bbf959a39777c63625ac83c80 antiX-M7-rc1.iso

Post comments, bugs on the antiX forum


20 September 2007

antiX-M7-rc1 (288MB) available from here: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=och28h6opdf

md5sum: c164ed3bbf959a39777c63625ac83c80 antiX-M7-rc1.iso

antiX-beta2-r1 xdelta patch (77MB) available here: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=qhghq8llopd


12 September 2007

antiX forum now available.

The one at MepisLovers is still open.


05 September 2007

If you have recently downloaded antiX-M7-beta2 and you want to install some kde app, you will find you cannot due to dependency problems. This is because antiX temporarily got ahead with gcc and cpp from Debian testing.

Easiest solution and an upgrade: Install aptitude from synaptic or

apt-get install aptitude (it will also upgrade apt and synaptic)

then 

aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

and agree to the first solution offerred.

You will then have a fully dist-upgraded antiX (to Mepis beta3) and you will be able to install kde apps.

Alternatively, after installing aptitude, 

aptitude update
aptitude install libavahi-qt3-1

Or 

aptitude update
aptitude install libssp0

You will not need to use (I hope) aptitude again.

Edit: It isn't really a bug as such, but a feature to exclude kde :-)


04 September 2007 antiX-M7-beta2 also now available from the MEPIS mirrors.

eg: download antiX-M7-beta2 here

For a list of changes from antiX-Spartacus and antiX-M7.


30 August 2007. antiX-M7-beta2 is available for testing.

This version has a few more applications installed, has been dist-upgraded to include all the recent changes in Debian Etch and Mepis7-beta2. A few extra wallpapers have been added and some files removed. antiX-M7-beta2 is 299MB.

At the moment get it from here: http://tomlinux.ca/testing using the following passwords.

user=antiXtester password=fluxbox

md5sum: f2b6466da0ac8ba17a4e282262074158

For those with antiX-M7-beta1.iso, you can use xdelta to add the patch_beta1-beta2.delta http://tomlinux.ca/testing/patch_beta1-beta2.delta It is 82MB.

Post comments, queries antiX forum on MepisLovers.


22 August 2007. antiX-M7-beta1 is available for testing.

This version is pretty rusty, has similar issues as Mepis7-beta1, but I'd like people to test it out and let me know what they think.

It is not yet available on the Mepis mirrors, I need some feedback before it gets uploaded.

antiX-M7-beta1 is about 280MB and is best installed to hard-disk, rather than used as a livecd (at the moment). Minimum 128MB RAM is recommended, though installed it should work well with 64MB RAM plus swap.

md5sum=5e38db8c554aa5f3171dfa930f8ac3c2 antiX-M7-beta1.iso

Edit: user=demo password=demo You cannot login as root! If you need to use root in a terminal, password=root

To exit from the login screen user=reboot password=root To shut down user=halt password=root

antiX-M7-beta1 is no longer available, antiX-M7-beta2 will be available for testing very soon.


03 August 2007. Work is starting on antiX-Mepis7. This will be based on MEPIS7 ie Debian Etch. Being based on the Debian repos will give developers and users much more flexibility.

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