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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: 2) by jmorris on Friday January 20 2017, @11:26PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday January 20 2017, @11:26PM (#456772)

    Suspend-to-disk is not only for laptops.

    Never seen it actually work on a desktop. On my current desktop it ALMOST worked the last time I tried it. Sata 0-0 (SSD with /) and 0-1 came back but sata 1-0 didn't. There goes four hours of slowness to rebuild the RAID1 with $HOME and disable power management again. It is always been that way for me, it comes close to working on a desktop once in a while but never quite makes it. Much better luck with a Thinkpad, enough kernel devs use them that they get enough love to keep power management reliable.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:26AM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:26AM (#456879) Journal
    That's interesting as an anecdote. I wonder what distro you are using and how you set it up. I've been using it on desktops and laptops since the 90s and IIRC it's only failed to work on one machine which obviously had a hardware problem. Sometimes when I try a new distro it doesn't work but I've always just wiped and installed slack and then it did work, other than that one case.
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    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:08AM

      by jmorris (4844) on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:08AM (#456889)

      Here are three example systems:

      1. Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Motherboard with Radeon R7 250 Video. Centos 6 with all current patches. Power management in the GUI is disabled since I know it doesn't work and I don't want people messing with it. But if I type pm-suspend as root in a graphical terminal it just sits there and does nothing. From a console it suspends but while a keystroke will wake it the keyboard doesn't work. Dead.

      2. Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S3 with Radeon X850 XT, cloned from same Centos 6 master image as above. In a graphical terminal pm-suspend leaves the screen on, keyboard running but kills the HDD and nothing gets things back short of reset. From a console it suspends but the keyboard won't wake it and pressing power starts the fans (at full speed) and nothing else happens. Cold restart required here.

      3. ASRock N68C-GS FX + Nvidia GeForce 8400. Fedora 23 + all current patches. The effect I described earlier where the first pair of SATA ports come back and the second doesn't.

      Multiple Thinkpads around here all work perfectly of course, have for years, work every time, under Fedora, Centos and Devuan. The Mrs. has a Toshiba laptop and it also has flawless power management under Centos. Had good luck with an EeePC. Laptop good, desktop bad.

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday January 21 2017, @09:02AM

        by Arik (4543) on Saturday January 21 2017, @09:02AM (#456916) Journal
        Ugly.

        Without the hardware to test of course I could only guess at the problem, but it sounds like it very well might be the wrong drivers. Doesn't fedora try to autodetect everything? That can be very error prone.
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