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antiX 17, a Linux Distribution Without Systemd, is Released

posted by takyon on Monday November 06 2017, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-debian dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The antiX Linux project announced version 17 of its distribution:

The developers of the Debian-based antiX GNU/Linux distribution announced the release of antiX 17, dubbed "Heather Heyer" and based on the Debian GNU/Linux 9.2 "Stretch" operating system.

antiX 17 follows the trend of previous versions to offer users an operating system that does not include the widely used systemd init system. With this release, Gentoo's eudev device file manager for the Linux kernel is used by default instead of udev.

Source: Softpedia News

Eudev is a fork of udev, made by the Gentoo project to avoid dependency on systemd.

Also at It's Foss and Distrowatch.

Related: Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Monday November 06 2017, @08:51AM (2 children)

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday November 06 2017, @08:51AM (#592936) Homepage Journal

    Can someone explain this for noob like me who has been using devuan (jessie)? A cursory reading through top google search results didn't help.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by KritonK on Monday November 06 2017, @04:16PM (1 child)

    by KritonK (465) on Monday November 06 2017, @04:16PM (#593138)

    Antix's emphasis is on being a distribution that is as light as possible, so that it can run well on old hardware. I may not have liked it, but that thing felt very snappy!

    Being Debian-based, Devuan might also require a CPU that supports the PAE instruction set, which may be a problem for older 32-bit processors; AntiX does not have such a requirement. My laptop is a borderline case, with an atom processor that supports the PAE instruction set, but does not report that it does so. My brief dalliance with Lubuntu required booting with a "forcepae" kernel option, which allowed the PAE kernel to boot, but may have been the cause of the instabilities that I observed.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday November 07 2017, @07:26AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday November 07 2017, @07:26AM (#593537) Homepage Journal

      Thanks. That helps. From the summary it seems antiX major selling point is lack of systemd :o