AntiX spin on Mepis in 'pre-final' stage, should be 'final' in early July
AntiX, the Fluxbox-based, 128 MB RAM-friendly version of Mepis is now in its "pre-final" stage, with a final release from its maker anticapitalista expected in early July, according to the developer himself on the Mepis forum.
As I've said, AntiX is promising -- and will probably leap right over Fluxbuntu in polish, usability and functionality. The only drawback is that it doesn't run in 64 MB of RAM. But for those with 128 MB or more, AntiX is, thus far, a great Linux distro.
Anticapitalista's post tells you where to get the "pre-final" ISO (and gives the login and password you need for the FTP site).
I consider AntiX a step up from the other Fluxbox biggie, Damn Small Linux, because AntiX offers the quick desktop environment of Fluxbox while providing the flexibility of apt and Synaptic for adding apps to the system. It won't run on the low-spec systems that DSL excels on, but for those with mid-level hardware (128 MB and above), AntiX is poised to become quite a player in the distro field.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
Did you check that password? I don't remember right off-hand how the final article stated it, but I had found a user/password that didn't work. (The details may have been edited out the final copy). That looks like the post I found with the wrong password, but maybe not. Ultimately, I ended up using root/root.
Yeah, I thought it was quite neato. :) I would have liked to have put it on my oooold laptop if I could have found a boot floppy image.
The passwords for the AntiX distro itself are one thing, and the passwords for the Web site hosting the ISO for download are another.
To get the ISO, the Web site is:
http://tomlinux.ca/testing
and the login/password for that Web site (which are case-sensitive, by the way) are:
user: antiXtester
password: fluxbox
Once you have the AntiX ISO burned to CD and you boot it, here's the login:
user: demo
password: demo
I think you can log in as root, but you won't see all of the features.
Ohhh, oh, oh. I guess I read your original post too fast. :blush:
Oh, no kidding on the root/not all the features? I wonder what I missed. hmmm, do I still have that iso around here? :D
Thanks!