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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.
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AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:33PM
Yeah. (Rejected submission follows)
from the middleweight-companion-to-a-versatile-favorite dept.
antiX releases are codenamed after human rights activists.
(The antiX help forum has a Greek Cafe corner where the topics tend to be freedom and civil liberties.)
Berta Cáceres, after whom this release was named, was an activist working for indigenous rights and environmental defense.
She was murdered in March of 2016, apparently by individuals affiliated with a proposed hydroelectric dam project.
The Reactionary Honduran government, which was required to protect her, failed to do that.
The bootable antiX ISO has traditionally been able to fit on a 700MB CD.
They once tried a bigger ISO and some elements of the community reacted negatively.
The developers returned to the original size with the next release.
antiX will run on near-nothing hardware [google.com] and goes like a 427 AC Cobra on a muscular machine.
The default antiX UI is a window manager (and it ships with several of those).
If you want a more-fleshed-out-by-default distro with an actual desktop environment as the default, there is DVD-sized MX Linux, which is a related project that comes configured with Xfce; no systemd there either.
antiX grew out of the MEPIS distro in an effort to make a lightweight version of that.
Warren Woodford stopped developing MEPIS some time back.
To fill that void, anticapitalista and the antiX crew started developing MX(15); M for MEPIS and X for antiX.
MX 16 was recently released. [softpedia.com]
antiX/MX Team Member dolphin_oracle was recently interviewed by Dedoimedo. [dedoimedo.com]
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