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Hello people,

First I am happy to see that there are more alternatives to systemd. I never liked systemd
but that was always only one problem – the larger problem was that egoistic and selfish
upstream developers forced users to use systemd. That was always much worse to me than
Red Hat developers creating systemd per se; nobody would have minded if systemd would
have been only optional, but no, they had to force it down onto downstream users.

Anyway – my post here is not about systemd but instead explains a bit how I found AntiX
(although I think I used to know AntiX before… just never tried it); I am no longer
using systemd distributions so I have a much smaller use-possibility these days.
Gentoo, Slackware, GoboLinux, Devuan, VoidLinux … possibly now AntiX. I’ll give
it a spin on my laptop; slackware did not work there due to some hardware-related
problem on that cheap laptop. 🙂

The post here is about one request specific to AntiX:

– Would it be possible to offer larger .iso files?

I’ll explain what I mean here.

If you look at the distrowatch release summary, you can see this here:

“Additional information can be found in the project’s release announcement. Download (pkglist):
antiX-17_x64-full.iso (780MB, MD5, signature, torrent),
antiX-17_x64-base.iso (616MB, MD5, signature, torrent),
antiX-17_x64-core.iso (309MB, MD5, signature, torrent),
antiX-17_x64-net.iso (160MB, MD5, signature, torrent). Also available from OSDisc.”

780MB is ok I guess… perhaps you guys focus on CDs primarily.

I am very much used to slackware releases which are kind of “all inclusive”, like
almost 8 Gig upon installing… all fits into one DVD.

These days I am only using DVDs and I burn them locally. So to me, it is SUPER
convenient if everything I need, is part of that DVD. Usually that also means
the KDE desktop, although I primarily use xfce, fluxbox or the mate-desktop. I
just like to have a full suite of programs available, and to optionally also
use that as a desktop. I can omit Gnome3 largely because it’s Red Hat
systemd-ification again (unless you count the Gentoo guy who made it systemd
free) – but mostly I don’t need Gnome3, only gnome-apps, many of which actually
work without systemd anyway.

But to summarize:

– Please also offer a slightly larger .iso with either full KDE or at the least
the more useful KDE programs + qt (KDE Konsole is my favourite terminal for
example; vte based terminals are ok too but I prefer KDE konsole).

Anyway, great work on antix, I hope you guys can retain your momentum and
motivation. \o/

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by shevy.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by shevy.