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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 19 2017, @06:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the worth-a-look? dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Besides the fact that antiX 16.1 comes with all 173 bug fixes and security patches implemented by the Debian Project in the new Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 "Jessie" release, but without the systemd init system, the distribution is using the long-term supported Linux 4.4.10 kernel customized with a fbcondecor splash.

Additionally, the new antiX version includes two applications, namely live-usb-maker and live-kernel-updater, which allow users to create a Live USB disk of antiX that you can use to run the operating system without having to install it on your personal computer, and update the kernel without the need to reboot the PC.

Meh, I'll stick with Calculate Linux for now.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/antix-16-1-linux-os-is-based-on-debian-gnu-linux-8-7-jessie-without-systemd-511933.shtml


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:01PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:01PM (#456190)

    GNOME hard depends on systemd so it isn't ever going to work and apparently KDE is almost as bad and nobody has yet put in the work to disinfect it.

    On servers I'm running CentOS 6.x which does NOT have systemd (I've added several upgraded repositories which include kernel 4.9.4). I rarely run them in X mode, but they're running Gnome (ugh) 2.28, or my preference: xfce4, which seems to run KDE apps without systemd or all the bloat (UGH!) of the KDE environment.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:08PM (#456195)

    Thanks to both of you.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:00PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:00PM (#456224)

    Mate is basically GNOME 2.x maintained and patched to rename everything that conflicts (by design) so it can be kept in a repo with GNOME3 without throwing up errors. Yes, I have Centos 6.x running on workstations here too, it is sane, it works and with some patching to keep Chrome working it is current enough for folks to get work done. But it is nearing end of life. So I'm working on finding all the pain points in switching a user from Gnome 2.x on Centos to Mate on Devuan.