antiX Linux review from my view

antiX Linux review from my view

antiX linux operating system default desktop wallpaper

Recently, I have download another light-weight Debian based Linux antiX. I install it on a separate harddisk. It installed successfully and have not delete other operating systems on grub menu. I use it for several hours. First of all I like the philosophy of naming itself. AntiX developed by anticatpitalist. Great combination. I have not found any kind of history related to antiX operating system. I thought developer might be a diehard leftist. He is a protester of allkind of capitalism. I support you from the philosophical view.

I am trying antiX-M8.5-486 version. Code name is: Marek Edelman. I am not sure whether it is a codename or not. I saw this revolutionist on boot screen. I searched Google and found huge information about Marek Edelman. Naming Linux using leftist name is a really unique idea. I also thought that Linux should be a power of poor people. Linux itself and open source are a revolution against all kind of capitalism act of software giants. Linux will always fight against all kind of fundamentalism, capitalism and terrorism. I think s/he tries to focus on this. I welcome you and I like and support this idea. I wish to see famous revolutionist face on next versions.

What I got?
1. Antix-m8.5 use icewm for doing activity with window related activities. It dont have any desktop icon but we can use Rox window manager with desktop icon. I dont like to see many icons on desktop. I like iconless desktop on icewm.

2. Antix-m8.5 use pcmanfm as file manager. This works fine with me. I am satisfied to this tiny file manager. I use it on LXDE, I am joyful to know that pcmanfm also works on icewm.

3. In Office menu antix-m8.5 include Calculator, AbiWord, ePDFviewer, Gnumeric, iceape Address Book, Osmo, Phonebook. All are light-weight and full functional faster application. I think a general user does not need more in a office suit.

4. You would get many kind of essential application on Network menu. AntiX Default browser is Iceape . It is a mozila related work and fork of Seaminkey. This full-featured web-browser worked fine for me. But I like to use Firefox and Google chrome (ium). You can chat, compose or check mail, browse through FTP etc. job with antix-m8.5.

5. There are many items on Multimedia section. You can play audio, video, can rip any audio CD or burn CD or DVD. You can record sound with external microphone and edit. You can use webcam using Cheese, Gxine also included for better video viewing experience. Antix also added famous Goggles Music Manager (I wrote a post on it, named: �...). DVD slideshow making is very easy with imagination a simple and lightweight DVD slideshow maker. It has famous audio player XMMS (x multimedia system). This is a look alike of famous windows based audio player WinAmp. When I was on windows, I never ever use another music player instead of winamp. After transforming in linuxuser I found XMMS, but as a Ubuntu user I always missed it (I dont know whats the problem within ubuntu and xmms.). Antix-m8.5 also include Mplayer. It is a famous and powerful video player on Linux.

6. Game: It has only 3 (Three) Games installed. It also has a DOSBox Emulator, So you can run DOS games using this. It also have my alltime favourite Lbreakout, also has sudoku-savant, and xmahjongg.

7. Default background is really great. I like to get some information about this image, but cant. Nothing wrote anywhere.

At last I must say that I like the idea. This is really a very light operating system. Puppy also a light runner, but antiX has pcmanfm for exploring files and folder. Rox is also powerful and better. But it only support only one click option. I am not familiar with it. (I will tell you later, why I like pcmanfm file management)

I think if Mepis or own community keep support to it, antiX will go many miles on future.

Visit antiX Linux operating system website.

I am going to publish a snapshots gallery post on antiX operating system next. Follow next post for some snapshot of antiX linux operating system.

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antiX 16 1 Berta Cáceres released and Avaialable For Download

antiX 16 1 Berta Cáceres released and Avaialable For Download

A new version of antiX, a Debian-based distribution featuring a simple desktop built around several lightweight and rarely-used window managers

antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy-to-install Linux live CD distribution based on Debians "Stable" branch for x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the "antiX Magic" in an environment suitable for old computers. The goal of antiX is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both newcomers and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 256 MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 256 MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX. The installer needs minimum 2.7 GB hard disk size. antiX can also be used as a fast-booting rescue CD. A special Xfce edition made in collaboration with the MEPIS Community called "MX" is also available.

What News antiX-16.1 (Berta C�ceres) :

• Not a lot! BUT we have included 2 excellent new applications: live-kernel-updater and live-usb-maker.
• Debian 8.7 (jessie), but systemd-free! And it fits on a cd! Great LiveUSB features!
• As usual antiX comes in 3 flavours for both 32 and 64 bit processors.
• antiX-full (c695MB) -4 windows managers - IceWM(default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm
• antiX-base (c510MB) -3 windows managers - fluxbox(default), jwm and herbstluftwm
• antiX-core-libre (c190MB) - no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build. Uses a libre kernel.
• Customised 4.4.10 LTS kernel with fbcondecor splash
• antiX has been designed to be fast, light on resources and flexible.
• Install it to hard drive, run it live from a stick or run as a frugal install on a partition.

Visit the projects home page to read the brief release announcement

Download (pkglist, replace "x64" with "386" if you prefer the 32-bit edition): 
antiX-16.1_x64-full.iso (680MB, MD5, signature)
antiX-16.1_x64-base.iso (503MB, MD5, signature)
antiX-16.1_x64-core-libre.iso (200MB, MD5, signature)

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Anticapitalist Leftist bookmarks on antix iceape

Anticapitalist Leftist bookmarks on antix iceape

I found some anticapitalist and leftist site on antiX oss iceapes bookmark. Here are the list I am publishing now.

• Democracy Now
• The Counter Punch
• New Left Review
• Monthly Review
• 
  
• Lenins Tomb (blogspot blog)
• Jews sans frontieres (blogspot blog)
• The Angry Arab News Service (blogspot blog)
• The vineyard of the saker (blogspot blog)
• 
  
• The World Revolution
• Marxists Internet Archive
• The Noam Chomsky Website
• Radical Philosophy
  

I like to regularly visit all site and blog. I know Marxists internet archive, Monthly Review and The counter punch from years. I also got DVD from Marxists archive. I wish to discover and visit more and more leftist site and blog. If you know any anticapitalist or leftist website link, please share with me by a comment.

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antiX linux operating system snapshot gallery

antiX linux operating system snapshot gallery

I download antiX m8.5 and testing. antiX OS Installed Succesfully on my machine. After using it for some days, I think, now I can publish a post titled antiX Linux review from my view. Here I am publishing menu entries on antiX operating system. I think this "antiX snapshot gallery" will help new linux user to explore a different one.

antiX os boot menu

antiX Boot Menu. Themed Personality Marek Edelman. Select options for load live or extra functions. This is accessories menu.  A lot of essential applications added in this list.

antiX accessories menu

You can go here directly through Main Menu> Applications >Accessories

• 2 Jotter
• Root Terminal
• Leafpad
• Search for Files or Folders
• PCMan File Manager
• ROX-Filer
• ROXTerm
• Searchmonkey
• XArchive Manager
• Zim Desktop Wiki
• metapackage-installer

antiX Operating System Graphics menu

Graphics

• apvlv
• Gcolor2
• Geeqie
• Gtkam Digital Camera Browser
• qv
• mtPaing graphic editor
• Screenshot
• UFRaw
• XSane image scanning program

antiX Linux Help menu

Only two pages have offline access. Rest of links are require online to get help.

antiX os Media player mplayer

antiX added this powerful feature rich media player. It can play almost everything an usual user test.

antix os Multimedia menu

Multimedia

• Asunder CD Ripper
• Cheese
• gamix
• Goggles Music Manager
• GNOME Player
• GnomeBaker CD/DVD Writer
• gxine
• imagination
• mhWaveEdit
• MPlayer Media Player
• Ncmpcpp
• Recorder
• streamtuner
• WinFF
• xmms

antiX linux os Network applications on menu

Network

• Ceni
• Chatzilla
• Dillo
• gFTP
• GNOME PPP
• Iceape Mail Composer
• Iceape Mail & Newsgroups
• Iceape navigator
• Iceape Suite
• Pidgin internet Messenger
• RutilT WLAN Manager
• Smbc
• Transmission
• umtsmon
• Wicd Network Manager

Office menu on antiX linux

Office

• Calculator
• AbiWord
• ePDFViewer
• Gnumeric
• Iceape Address Book
• Osmo
• Phonebook

System tools menu on antiX m8.5

System Tools

• Grsync
• System Profiler and Benchmark
• Htop
• luckyBackup (super user)
• Manage Print jobs
• PCMan File Manager
• ROX-Filer
• GParted
• Multiple screens
• ADSL/PPPOE configuration
• RutiT WLAN Manager
• Synaptic Package Manager
• Printing

antiX default help and faq page

antiX defaul help and faq page. Lots of information on antiX, Mepis, icewm and rox. Have some tutorials on customizing. But have not work for me. I am going to publish an another post on it.

Default conky color on antiX m8.5 linux os

I dont like default conky color. So much fade that I cant see some information. To change color theme please read Sexy Conky on your Ubuntu or Mint Machine. Or you can Download a conkyrc file from this post. You should replace .conkyrc file on home folder.

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antiX OS Installed Succesfully

antiX OS Installed Succesfully

antiX M8.5 operating system desktop

I download an another flavour of Debian based Linux. It called antiX. It use icewm as a window manager. So, it takes a very small space to install itself. It can be run in any lightweight hardware. (Window Manager WM is not a desktop environment, so has no many feature. But, it also do necessary jobs.)

Not like others, antiX include various file manager by default. You can use Rox (Used in Puppylinux) or pcmanfm (Used in LXDE) both in this nice distro. So, it will run on older computer. Recommended RAM is 128MB but you can use 64MB to install it. It can operate older PII 266 systems. It takes 1.2GB hard disk space.

There are plenty of applications I found on Main Menu. I dont want to discuss them here. I will publish another posts on antiX screen-shot .

antiX Main Menu

Thank you antiX for not deleting my systems grub options. Other installations are showing on grub menu.

In this moment I am using antiX to publish this post and browsing internet. That means, I have successfully configured antiX to connecting internet via my Nokia E51 mobile phone. Have a simple problem. wvdial command require root terminal to connect. General user terminal start dial, found misc signal ok but at last it failed to connect. It said:

Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied

I will post details later. Without this problem I feel happy with antiX linux.

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antiX OS configuration and using

antiX OS configuration and using

After using antiX os for several days I am focusing on some problems which need a little attention of developers. I think if they add or fix this things on next version told here, these customising will increase antiX operating systems user number more.

I have tried to do some customisation. but failed. I am not a software hungry techie geek. I just need to do some essential job. I am telling them one by one.

• 1. Connecting internet: I am a user of GPRS. I use it with Nokia e51 mobile phone. This gadget works fine as a broadband mobile device on Ubuntu, Peppermint os and Puppy linux. I have not click much to connecting internet. I dont going to tell about other os, I want to know solutions which occurs on antiX-M8.5
• a) Thank developers for both usb-modeswitch and wvdial installed. I edit wvdial.conf with leafpad. But gppp have cannot connect. I wrote wvdial on regular terminal but it said that �.. (Stay with me, I will tell it details on next post). I have to run wvdial on root terminal to connect every time I tried to connect. Is it normal to run root terminal every time when I wish to connect internet?
• b) After connecting internet I found that there is no any monitoring tool or application. So I think developers should add a network traffic monitoring tool and or a network status monitor. Puppy linux has this kind of applet on right bottom panel named blinky.
• 2. Foreign Language: I wrote my own language using either SCIM or ibus input method system. None of them are installed on antix-m8.5. This is not fair. Developers should add SCIM or ibus on next versions. I see ibus installed on synaptic package manager. But dont work on any text editor. I did not found ibus on Input Methods on any text editor. I tried to start ibus or SCIM right clicking on text editors body.
• 3. A little portion of Help file should reviewed again: I tried to get some help from help file but failed. Because I can not follow some suggestions written on ANTIX > Help > antiX > antiX FAQ
• Its on IceWM: Basic Customization section. This section answer some common popular customization. I also tried to use the most used functions, but failed.
• 
• *I like to change timeformat on right side of bottom panel. I got a tricks from default FAQ page.. It said:

• Change to a 12- hr clock: click on Search on the menu bar, and enter timeformat

• I just sorry to say that I have not found any Search on Main Menubar. I found Run and tried that command on it. But given command dont work.
• I also found "Search for Files or Folders" and "Searchmonkey" at Accessories submenu (Get more menu entry snapshots from antiX linux operating system snapshot gallery). But they didnt found timeformat for me.
• 4. Adding Links: It is a customisation of icewm. I dont know how to add a customized link on bottom panel or mainmenu.
• 5. Customising Bottom Panel: I want to remove some link and add some more link on bottom panel. But no way. I dont know if it is weakness of icewm or not.
• 6. .deb file installation: This is a Debian based distribution. But *.deb files can not be installed by double click. If .debs dont allowed or not support then what kind of Debian based distro is it?
• 7. Control Center: It has only one link on quick link area of bottom panel. I have not found it anywhere. I like to add a link of Control Center in Applications menu and remove the bottom link. I dont use control center simultaneously . So, I do not want to add it in front of my eye (easy looking area). After thinking and writing these lines I have found Control Center, but it named antiXCC. Hard to understand that short form.
• 8. Conky text colour: Look at the image below. Can you understand any text written here. I guess you cant. Its ok, cause colour of conky text are so fade that it takes some more moments and concentration to understand. I dont know what is the reason to make texts pal. You may get a nice looking and huge informative .conkyrc file from the post "Download a conkyrc file". Replace .conkyrc file found on home folder with downloaded .conkyrc file. Now on/off conky several time from Menu >Desktop> Settings> Conky on/off. You will see the changes instantly. You may read this post to get an feature rich conky for your desktop.
• 9. Offline Dictionary: I like to install a offline Dictionary like Gnome dictionary (You may read Offline Dictionaries for Ubuntu). Is it possible to get a one? If not, I suggest antix-m8.5 developers to add a offline dictionary on next release.
• 10. Reshuffling Menu Links: Menu items should reshuffle again. Some application are stayed here and there simultaneously. They should rearrange as by subject or by job or favourite or most used category.
• 11. There is no any Safely remove drive type command on pcmanfm. What does it mean? Are usb drives do not require safely remove at pcman file manager? Is it a feature or a weakness?

I am not a geeky linux user. I am a member of usual linux user. I am facing these problem. So I am writing from my own view.

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antix vs swiftlinux comparison

antix vs swiftlinux comparison

Swift Linux is an another floavour of antiX os. I found it on antiX forum. I feel so much curious that I started to download it. After several days I am able to complete it. Just after download I start "Virtual Box OSE" and run "swiftlinux".

I am so frustrated that cant talk for some minutes. Swiftlinux is antiX. Yes, There is nothing difference between antiX and Swiftlinux. Both are same on my view. I am not a geek. So cant tell any tech base difference. But after start everybody who know antiX will be worry about Swiftlinux. I dont want to write any review for Swiftlinux, Because, actually it is antix, wrap with and decorate with other theme. I believe it has no future.

I run both of them on Virtual Machine and took those screenshot. Look at the image below. Left side is default antiX os and right side is Swiftlinux. I think you are viewing huge difference between both of them.
I expand Accessories sub menu from Application main menu. If you cant see clearly click on the images. You click will open larger image.

You should not mention changed theme as a difference. "AntiX use IceGilDust and Swiftlinux using IceClearlooks themes.
Are you telling about those desktop icons showing on swiftlinux? Friend, icons are showing on swiftlinux, because rox filer is selected here as default window manager. It automatically run first at startup. AntiX also has this included on main menu. You can use rox filer as default wm.

My suggestion is not to download Swiftlinux. If you have antiX downloaded then it will give you the original test of swiftlinux. What makes Swift Linux so great?-- I dont found any unique reason which is only perfect for swiftlinux. You may read that page and understand yourself.

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