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[Member Xecure]

I got a bit angry, so forgive me if I have not completely read your message.

antiX use to default to startpage.com, but now Mozilla makes all new installations of Firefox reconfigure the default search engine to google.com
NOT antiX’ fault.
anticapitalista and the team already do more than what most people ask for, but when they cannot do something, you cannot come here and blame them.

Anonymous wrote:

>This has come up before. Search the forum for an answer.
Have not found. Neither by built-in search, nor by external.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/firefox+google/page/2/
On the second page, somewhere below:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/why-is-google-the-default-search/
and you will see this:

anticapitalista wrote:

Actually, I just found out that it is firefox-esr 68 (or at least how debian package it) that is ignoring the distribution.ini file (used to set search engines etc).

Firefox newtab advertising

So, not a lot we can do about it except don’t use firefox-esr.

and this:

olsztyn wrote:

I am sort of puzzled why this would be considered a ‘bug’ of antiX distribution and as OS subject to criticism for the reason that producer of a major browser chose certain defaults which are considered targeted or biased.

Sorry if my answer is a bit of an attack, but I feel the need to defend this distribution. Even though antiX is pre-configured, it is up to the user to change and adapt stuff to what they want/like. You cannot blame the distribution for the inactivity of user. You cannot blame the shop for the buyer’s choices. If I don’t want something, I don’t use/get it.

My system is highly customized and, thanks to the great advise from people from the forum, I can make my system more secure. If people don’t want that it is up to them.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Anonymous]

>It is the default search engine for Firefox.
Oh, I see – Mozilla had sold all of us long ago…

>It is the default search engine for Firefox. If this wasn’t so, many people would react negatively to it.
Where is the default icewm configuration?
Where is the default geany layout?
Where is the god-blessed beloved systemd which is the de-facto standard? Many users would react negatively not finding that powerful and featureful piece of software 😉
And ultimately, where is MS Windows? Most PC users would expect a PC running that stated OS! 😉
I suppose, users come to a particular distro because of its specific modus operandi and spirit…
Making a distro is about customization, tuning and enhancing. Or else, what is the point of making a distro?

>Changing the default search engine in firefox is very easy, so it is up to each of us to do so. Many users have already change to startpage.com or duckduckgo.com
>nothing difficult about that
Most users don’t reconfigure their machines.
Most of those who do reconfigure do only few minor tweaks.
So, I bet, most of antiX users are being tapped by the “don’t be evil”.

Most users don’t care about names as long as search service delivers relevant info.

So, I bet, more users would be saved and feel fine than would react negatively.

Google makes money out of Google in Firefox, Mozilla makes money out of Google in Firefox, does antiX make money out of Google in Firefox? (rhetorical question)

>This has come up before. Search the forum for an answer.
Have not found. Neither by built-in search, nor by external.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Xecure wrote:

uxer wrote:

How has it happened that Google is the default surveillance search engine in antiX?

It is the default search engine for Firefox. If this wasn’t so, many people would react negatively to it.

Changing the default search engine in firefox is very easy, so it is up to each of us to do so. Many users have already change to startpage.com or duckduckgo.com

Regardless of which Web Browser I use (which includes Seamonkey, Firefox, Brave and Vivaldi, I set the default search engine to DuckDuckGo. If it’s not automatically set, you can still visit https://duckduckgo.com/ – nothing difficult about that!

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Brian Masinick

[Member Xecure]

Anonymous wrote:

How has it happened that Google is the default surveillance search engine in antiX?

It is the default search engine for Firefox. If this wasn’t so, many people would react negatively to it.

Changing the default search engine in firefox is very easy, so it is up to each of us to do so. Many users have already change to startpage.com or duckduckgo.com

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member ModdIt]

@this page Palemoon, No script, Java off. Decentraleyes,Canvas Blocker 326mb
Firefox, No script, java on so I could login. Mem usage climbing to around 405 mb from initial 366.

Although I do nothing CPU LOAD with Firefox averages out at 9%, far higher than Palemoon @ 2% average
climbing to max 6% with Java on for this site only, google entrusted in both cases.
Both 64 Bit.

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[Member ModdIt]

Nice to hear your problems are getting fixed, that is the real value of a great global community working together
and exceptional lead dev who does listen to users.

Agree with BobC on memory, 512 is really tight especially if you want to use a modern browser.
To use your system effectively, install hosts ad blocking, block telemetry data reporting, crash reports,
remove hidden Firefox extensions. The G Hacks user.js and No script are a big help, as is Enterprise Policy
Generator addon. I always do my settings and install the user.js as well as setup policy offline,
Mozilla while talking privacy make it very hard to stop there lying games.
A lot of effort in to turning Firefox in to a Spy Bot, with real remote control, but with
right configuration it is still better than most for site compatibility and privacy.
Without above firefox filled my disk with crap and memory usage consistently crept higher until my computer crashed.
Palemoon is my favorite browser, uses about 100 mb less memory than firefox, no memory creep, not a remote accessible
bot. My personal settings have never been remotely “repaired” with Palemoon, they have with firefox. I do use No Script
Legacy in Palemoon, just download from the extensions home site. Only caveat with going to the moon is some modern sites
do not work with it.

Plenty of posts on quieting Mozilla in Forum. Latest Version 75 and equivalent LTS update has yet more Telemetry wasting
our limited computing power.

Anyone from Mozilla reading, no need for your crappy lying and deceitful policy, just stop disregarding your last
remaining users.
We know you are financed by google so you can pay 2.5 Million for your wonderful ceo, sack a lot of devs, maybe
the last outspoken ones with some honor and do not give a shit about about your 2% market share as long as it protects goog
from monopoly action suits.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

No. He is instructing on how to burn a usb into a live usb on chromeos.

My chromebook runs antix with the john lewis bios hack and antix 19. But mine is intel based and the bios hack can be hit or miss if the bios jumper is broken. Like on another Chromebook I use for parts.

I have no experience with arm chromebooks. Sorry.

Link

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Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

auto problem seems well known.

link

Edit: I’d comment more on wicd but it now been ages since I ran it

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by rokytnji.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

harry@shop:~
$ inxi -N
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: r8712u 

is what I use for the picture above in

harry@shop:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: shop Kernel: 4.9.87-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.1_x64-full Heather Heyer 17 March 2018 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 6075BHU v: ThinkCentre M57 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LENOVO serial: <root required> BIOS: LENOVO v: 2RKT41AUS 
  date: 03/20/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual E2160 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  Speed: 1800 MHz min/max: 1200/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1800 2: 1800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Q35 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.87-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1a:6b:55:6a:32 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: r8712u 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:0f:13:65:15:32 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 12.46 GiB (4.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.10 GiB used: 3.29 GiB (17.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 269.34 GiB used: 9.17 GiB (3.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 181 Uptime: 4m Memory: 3.61 GiB used: 510.5 MiB (13.8%) Shell: bash 
  inxi: 3.0.36 
harry@shop:~

So googling my chipset should find the usb adapter you want. I won’t take apart my antenna to get the model and make.
This wifi computer is my fastest with this setup. Download dist-upgrade is best on this compu6ter for speed.

LINK

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Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member PPC]

How to install applications/software on antiX (2020 version):

You have recently found out about Linux or antiX in particular and you want to know how to install new software?

As almost everything in Linux in general and antiX, there’s many ways to do most things:

1- Use “Package Installer” ( available in: Menu – Control Centre – System tab):
It’s like a small “antiX app store” – it has a list of over a hundred of the most installed software applications, divided into categories, searchable by application name (but not description) – almost any browser you can think of, WINE, Steam, Java, VLC, language packages, are all instalable from there, using a single click- the user does not have to interact with the many times dreaded terminal.
As “Package Installer” windows states grayed out applications are already installed.
– To install new applications simply left click the application you want (a check will appear in the box) and click the “Install” button and wait for the automated install process to finish (you do get to see a black terminal window, that disappears automatically once the install process finishes).
Pros: easy to use, makes many general use applications instalable with a single click.
Cons: newbies may find the interface a bit spartan, without icons or screen shots.

2- Use Synaptic package manager ( also available, among other places, in: menu – Control Centre – System tab ):

This is a very powerful application that allows you to install and manage any software application available from the Debian repositories- there are many tens of thousands available.
– to search for a application to install click to magnifying glass icon on the upper right side of the window – you can search by application name or description (ex: you can search by “VLC” or by “media player”).
– A small search window pops up – enter the application (package) you want to search there and press the magnifying glass icon available on that window (that small window closes automatically)
– Wait a few moments for Synaptic to show you the results of the search- they are presented on the right hand side of the main window. If you have to, scroll down the results of your search, until you find the application(s) you want to install.
– Right click the file(s) you want to install and select “Mark for installation”. (Note: You can install more than one application or package at the same time.) If that file needs to some other files in order to run ( has dependencies), Synaptic will tell you exactly what else needs to be installed and offers to install those files. If that happens, you have to explicitly click the button to “mark” those extra files for installation, in order to continue the install process.
– Once you selected everything you want to install, click the “Gears” icon (Apply) on the top of Synaptic’s window. A confirmation pop up window will inform you exactly how many files will be downloaded, their size what the space they will use on your hard drive after installation. Click the “Apply” button and wait for the installation to finish.
The new application icon appears automatically on the menu. The install process is finished when you see the application you installed is “checked” in Synaptic’s main window.
Pros: many thousands of applications available. Does not require using the terminal at all. Installs probably anything you may need. Safe to user, does not in any way harm your system.
Cons: can be a bit overwhelming to new users because it does not only show applications but their dependencies, and also fonts, drivers, etc. Does not automatically show any graphical previews of the applications ( no pretty pictures or videos to see, like in mobile app stores) BUT you can select your application and try using the “get screenshot” button to… well, try to get a screenshot of that application…

3- Use cli-aptiX :

If you are not afraid to use the keyboard and are not deterred by a general interface that basically remains unchanged for decades, open a terminal and run cli-aptix
It’s a gem! It’s as friendly as a keyboard only application can be: it offers to automatically update the database of system files (perform a apt update), and then allows you to install applications, either terminal or GUI, has a huge curated list of applications, and allows the user to search by application name or description!
Pros: ease of use, excellent list of curated software, allows user to search for and install applications from the Debian Repositories
Cons: terminal only, no mouse input

4- Use Appimages :

It’s a “universal” application format this means it’s meant to run in almost any Linux system [there are some “universal” formats, but the most well known are Snaps, Flatpaks and Appimages].
Simply download the file, make it executable and run it (example: Open SpaceFm, navigate to where your Appimage is, right click it – Properties – Permitions – Make sure that the executable field is checked. You only have to do this once. Then every time you want to run the application simply right click it choose the option to run it).
No installation needed!
There are on-line Appimages application stores – this makes it easy to search for what you want. they have descriptions of the applications and usually a screenshot.
Good places to find Appimage applications:
https://appimage.github.io/ (it has almost 1000 applications at this time)
https://www.appimagehub.com/ (it has almost 700 applications at this time)
Some software applications “vendors”, like the LibreOffice webpage, offer Appimage versions of their applications directly.
Pros: one application, one file. If you want to remove the application, just delete the file. Can’t harm your system. The worst it can happen is that the application needs some dependency that’s not available and refuses to run.
Cons: you have to manually make the Appimage file executable once you download it – this can be boring but it’s a security feature and only has to be done once for each Appimage file! Some Appimages do not offer to automatically get added to the menu. Some Appimages to no warn of upgrades. Can be hard to make files automatically run with a Appimage application (easily solvable file association problems)
Appimages can be huge (because they pack almost everything they need to run) and a bit slower starting, particularly on low powered machines (because they have to be unpacked. If that’s a problem for you, you can extract any appimage and simply run the application directly).

5- Use Flatpaks :

It’s another universal application format.
First you need to install the flatpak application itself, then you can install applications packaged in flatpak format. You download a tiny flatpak file for the application you want and then you have to install it – flatpak connects to the server and downloads the needed files.
There are some on-line flatpak “application stores” too.
Where to find flatpak applications:
https://flathub.org/home
Pros: on the user side, you only need to install a single file. Can’t harm your system, the worst that can happen is that the application can’t run.
Cons: at first run flatpak needs to install many hundreds of Mb of dependencies, and only then you can install applications in flatpak format.
there are some integration problems with flatpak applications (example: they sometimes don’t match with system decorations, etc).
It can be a bit tricky knowing how to run apps that are not added to the menu.

6- Manually install files:

6.1- “.run” applications or compressed binaries (like “.tar.bz”):

Some software is available as compressed binaries like “.tar.bz” – just uncompress it and run the executable file.
You can get the most recent Mozilla FireFox version in this format.
Pros: safe to use, can’t, as far as I know, break your system (but can perform, as any software, malicious actions).
Easy and safe to uninstall- simple delete the uncompressed files!
Cons: you have to manually setup menu entries and file associations.

“.run” applications – almost the same as above, but automatically install everything the application need to run once you execute this kind of “installer”.
Some device drivers come in this format.
Cons: as far as I know this can break your system. Try to install only files you know are safe (this is a univerally good advice).

6.2- .deb files :

“.deb” files are the packages that Debian, and Debian based distros use to install software. They work almost like “.msi” files available for MS Windows.
Synaptic and package installer simply automate the process of installing .deb files for you.
Manually installing these files can harm your system and make it unable to run. Do not try to use Ubuntu PPA’s! Do not try to use software that needs systemd – those probably won’t work with antiX and can harm your System.
Do you need a particular software unavailable in Package Installer or Synatic?- Ask in the forum, so the Development team tries to add it to antiX and wait for a reply.
That said, you can install thousands of .deb files in antiX!
Simply download the .deb file you want and, using your file manager, open the folder where you saved it. If you don’t already have a Terminal window open, go to the antiX Menu > Terminal. In the terminal type (or copy and paste) the following command (make sure to add a space after it and do not press enter!):

sudo apt install

…and then drag the .deb file to the terminal (the full path to your .deb file should appear, between single quotation marks, after “sudo apt install “). Press the enter key to begin the installation. If asked to, enter your password. If asked anything else, pressing enter again accepts the default answer (since the most asked question is if you want to continue or if you want to overwrite or keep old files, usually the default answer is “yes”).
When the installation is finished you can close the terminal.

Tip 1: You can also drag and drop multiple files to the terminal, to install more than one .deb package.

Tip 2: If you have the package ft10-transformation installed in your system, it includes debinstaller, a GUI for the “apt install” command. You can right click any .deb package on zzzfm and select the option Open > Open With > “All apps” Tab – Debinstaller. You can also make this the default application to open .deb files, on a checkbox near the bottom of the window.

P.S.- until version 21 came out, older versions included a GUI application to install .deb packages, called gdebi – but that application sometimes does not work correctly, so it’s safer to use the apt command directly in the terminal”

Software from the Debian.org is as safe to install as it can be (as long as it does not depend on systemd). Open your web browser to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ and select the application you want – they are organized into categories.
Note: If a application is in debian.org, probably it’s better to install the very same application from Synaptic- it takes care of everything for you and avoids any complication.
debian.org is not a web site filled with eye candy, but it has many, many application screen shots available. click the name of the application you want. On the upper right corner you’ll probably see a clickable thumbnail of the application, if one is available.
Pros: Sometimes there are .deb applications that run fine in antiX but are not officially available.
Cons: you have to find the file you want and install it yourself. You may have to hunt down and manually install all the dependencies your application needs to run. This can often lead to what is know as “dependency hell”- you keep installing dependencies, that need other dependencies to run, that need other dependencies to run…
Can break your system!!!

7- Use Windows applications :

Windows software does not run in Linux but, you can try using a compatibility layer to try to run it – it’s called WINE. There are thousands of windows applications that run in Linux, some even faster than they run in Windows itself!
– Install Wine (for example, using Package Installer) and then click your windows executable file to try to run it via WINE.
A more compatible, but slower option to legally run windows applications, is downloading a free MS Windows virtual machine and using it to run that particular option in antiX. This takes a lot of storage space and is slow. Low powered computers probably can’t even run a MS Windows virtual machine due to CPU and RAM constraints.

8- Play Windows Steam Games :

Last time I checked there were over 5000 games available in STEAM that run in Linux.
– Install Steam (for example, using Package Installer) and activate Proton in your Steam client and just install any compatible game!
Cons: well, if your computer is so low powered that you choose to install antiX to make it usable, there aren’t many Steam games that can run confortably in your system. If you have a new(ish) computer, you’r probably ok.

9 – Compile applications from the source code :

If you don’t even know what this means, don’t even try it.

10 – Run old DOS applications:

They run out of the box in antiX- DosBox has that covered- if you don’t know to use it, search on-line for help… It’s pretty intuitive.
PROS: very nearly 100% compatibility rate.

11- Run On-line applications :

General rule of thumb- if a web application runs, it runs well in Linux (probably it’s even housed in a server that runs Linux too).
You can use any Google service, Youtube, LYBR, Microsoft Office 365 on-line, Netflix, etc. It’s one of the of the benefits of having Web standards (you may need to run the web application in a particular browser, like for example- the browser needs to support DRM to enable some video streaming, like Netflix and HBO)…
CONS: I believe that at the present time video acceleration still does not work in Linux browsers out of the box. If you have a low powered CPU, video decoding or 3d video can slow to a crawl, because your system isn’t using any GPU processing power).

12- Run applications using emulators :

On antiX you can play, for example PlayStation 2 disks using a emulator, or arcade games using MAME. There’s also a free Windows 95 emulator for Linux (with dubious legal status).

Applications that DO NOT RUN in antiX:

– Generally speaking Windows applications, and applications made for other OS’s (like MacOS, android, etc). A different subject is applications that have cross platform versions (i.e. have different versions, available for Windows and Linux – like LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC )
– applications packaged in a package format other than “.deb” or any universal application file format (there are more that appimage and flatpak)
– Snaps are unable to be installed in antiX because they depend on systemd, that is not present in antiX (you may run MX-Linux and choose to use systemd at the boot process for these applications).

To finish up:

There are many on-line sites that you can use to search for Linux applications. My personal favourite is:
https://www.pling.com/
It has many appimages available, it offers a appimage of the store web application, very handy to use.
Also App Outlet has a appimage “Store” available, that shows appimage and flatpak applications, that you can then download to your computer and use.

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How to install applications/software on antiX (2020 version):
EDITED. Gdebi is not included in antiX 21 and not a recommendation.

You have recently found out about Linux or antiX in particular and you want to know how to install new software?

As almost everything in Linux in general and antiX in particular, there’s many ways to do stuff.

1- Use “Package Installer” ( available in: Menu – Control Centre – System tab):

It’s like a small “antiX app store” – it has a list of over a hundred of the most installed software applications, divided into categories, searchable by application name (but not discription) – almost any browser you can think of, WINE, Steam, Java, VLC, language packages, are all installable from there, using a single click- the user usually does not have to interact with the terminal. A terminal black window pops up and closes automatically after the install process finishes. Usually if there’s any kind of question the user has to answer during the install process, simply press one of the keys the window shows in order to proceed (the “enter” key usually accepts the default answer).
Note: During some particular installations (like Virtualbox) the user needs to accept some kind of License Agreement that appears on that window- use the “tab” key highlights the correct option and accept it by pressing the “enter” key)
Pros: easy to use, makes many general use applications installable with a single click.
Cons: newbies may find the interface a bit spartan, without icons or screen shots.

2- Use Synaptic package manager ( also available, among other places, in: menu – Control Centre – System tab ):

This is a very powerful application that allows you to install and manage any software application available from the Debian repositories- there are many tens of thousands available.
A repository is a collection of software packages for a Linux distribution. antiX is based in Debian, so it uses the Debian repositories and it’s own antiX repository.
– To search for a application click to magnifying glass icon on the upper right side of the window (you can search for the application name or it’s description -ex: “vlc” or “media player”).
– A small search window pops up – enter the application (package) you want to search there and press the magnifying glass icon available on that window
– Wait a few moments for Synaptic to show you the results of the search- they are presented on the right hand side of the main window. If you have to, scroll down the results of your search, until you find the application(s) you want to install- you can install more than one application or package at the same time.
– Right click the file(s) you want to install and select “Mark for installation”. If that file needs to some other files in order to run, Synaptic will tell you exactly what else needs to be installed and offers to install those files. If that happens you have to explicitly click the “mark” those extra files in order to continue the install process.
– Once you selected everything you want to install, click the “Gears” icon (Apply) on the top of Synaptic’s window. A confirmation pop up window will inform you exactly how many files will be downloaded, their size what the space they will use on your hard drive after installation. Click the “Apply” button and wait for the installation to finish. The new application appear automatically on the menu.

Pros: many thousands of applications available. Does not require using the terminal at all. Installs probably anything you may need. Safe to user, does not in any way harm your system.
Cons: can be a bit overwhelming to new users because it does not only show applications but their dependencies, and also fonts, drivers, etc. Does not automatically show any graphical previews of the applications ( no pretty pictures or videos to see, like in mobile app stores) BUT you can select your application and try using the “get screenshot” button to… well, try to get a screenshot of that application…

3- Use cli-aptiX :

If you are not afraid to use the keyboard and are not deterred by a general interface that basicaly remains unchaged for decades, open a terminal and run cli-aptiX
It’s a gem! It’s as friendly as a keyboard only application can be: it offers to automaticaly update the database of system files (perform a apt update), and then allows you to install applications, either terminal or GUI, has a huge curated list of applications, and allows the user to search by application name or description!
Pros: ease of use, excellent list of curated software, allows user to search for and install applications from the Debian Repositories
Cons: terminal only, no mouse input

4- Use Appimages :

It’s a “universal” application format this means it’s meant to run in almost any Linux system [there are some “universal” formats, but the most well known are Snaps, Flatpaks and Appimages].
Simply download the file, make it executable and run it (example: Open SpaceFm, navigate to where your Appimage is, right click it – Properties – Permissions – Make sure that the executable field is checked. You only have to do this once. Then every time you want to run the application simply right click it choose the option to run it).
No installation needed!
There are on-line Appimages application stores – this makes it easy to search for what you want. they have descriptions of the applications and usually a screenshot.
Good places to find Appimage applications:
https://appimage.github.io/ (it has almost 1000 applications at this time)
https://www.appimagehub.com/ (it has almost 700 applications at this time)
Some software applications “vendors”, like the LibreOffice webpage, offer Appimage versions of their applications directly.
Pros: one application, one file. If you want to remove the application, just delete the file. Can’t harm your system. The worst it can happen is that the application needs some dependency that’s not available and refuses to run.
Cons: you have to manually make the Appimage file executable once you download it – this can be boring but it’s a security feature and only has to be done once for each Appimage file! Some Appimages do not offer to automatically get added to the menu. Some Appimages to no warn of upgrades. Can be hard to make files automatically run with a Appimage application (easily solvable file association problems)
Appimages can be huge (because they pack almost everything they need to run) and a bit slower starting, particularly on low powered machines (because they have to be unpacked. If that’s a problem for you, you can extract any Appimage and simply run the application directly).

5- Use Flatpaks :

It’s another universal application format.
First you need to install the flatpak application itself, then you can install applications packaged in flatpak format. If you download a flatpak file for the application you want, it’s a tiny file. You then can run flatpak to install it – it connects to the server and downloads the needed files.
There are some on-line flatpak “application stores” too.
Where to find flatpak applications:
https://flathub.org/home
Pros: on the user side, you only need to install a single file. Can’t harm your system, the worst that can happen is that the application can’t run.
Cons: at first run flatpak needs to install many hundreds of Mb of dependencies, and only then you can install applications in flatpak format.
there are some integration problems with flatpak applications (example: they sometimes don’t match with system decorations, etc).
It can be a bit tricky knowing how to run apps that are not added to the menu.

6- Manually install files :

6.1- “.run” applications or compressed binaries (like “.tar.bz”):

Some software is available as compressed binaries like “.tar.bz” – just uncompress it and run the executable file.
You can get the most recent Mozilla FireFox version in this format.
Pros: safe to use, can’t, as far as I know, break your system (but can perform, as any software, malicious actions).
Easy and safe to uninstall- simple delete the uncompressed files!
Cons: you have to manually setup menu entries and file associations.

“.run” applications – almost the same as above, but automaticaly install everything the application need to run once you execute this kind of “installer”.
Some device drivers come in this format.
Cons: as far as I know this can break your system. Try to install only files you know are safe (this is a univerally good advice).

6.2- .deb files :

“.deb” files are the packages that Debian, and Debian based distros use to install software. They work almost like “.msi” files available for MS Windows.
Synaptic and package installer simply automate the process of installing .deb files for you.
Manually installing these files can harm your system and make it unable to run. Do not try to use Ubuntu PPA’s! Do not try to use software that needs systemd – those probably won’t work with antiX and can harm your System.
Do you need a particular software unavailable in Package Installer or Synatic?- Ask in the forum, so the Development team tries to add it to antiX and wait for a reply.
That said, you can install thousands of .deb files in antiX! Simply download the file you want and open it in a file manager- a application called gdebi will try to install that file, or you can install it using the terminal.”

“Simply download the .deb file you want and, using your file manager, open the folder where you saved it. If you don’t already have a Terminal window open, go to the antiX Menu > Terminal. In the terminal type (or copy and paste) the following command (make sure to add a space after it and do not press enter!):

sudo apt install

…and then drag the .deb file to the terminal (the full path to your .deb file should appear, between single quotation marks, after “sudo apt install “). Press the enter key to begin the installation. If asked to, enter your password. If asked anything else, pressing enter again accepts the default answer (since the most asked question is if you want to continue or if you want to overwrite or keep old files, usually the default answer is “yes”).
When the installation is finished you can close the terminal.

Tip 1: You can also drag and drop multiple files to the terminal, to install more than one .deb package.

Tip 2: If you have the package ft10-transformation installed in your system, it includes debinstaller, a GUI for the “apt install” command. You can right click any .deb package on zzzfm and select the option Open > Open With > “All apps” Tab – Debinstaller. You can also make this the default application to open .deb files, on a checkbox near the bottom of the window.

P.S.- until version 21 came out, older versions included a GUI application to install .deb packages, called gdebi – but that application sometimes does not work correctly, so it’s safer to use the apt command directly in the terminal”

Software from the Debian.org is as safe to install as it can be (as long as it does not depend on systemd). Open your web browser to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ and select the application you want – they are organized into categories.
Note: If a application is in debian.org, probably it’s better to install the very same application from Synaptic- it takes care of everything for you and avoids any complication.
Pros: debian.org is not a web site filled with eye candy, but it has many, many application screen shots availble. click the name of the application you want. On the upper right corner you’ll probably see a clickable thumbnail of the application, if one is available.
Sometimes there are .deb applications that run fine in antiX but are not officially available.
Cons: you have to find the file you want and install it yourself. You may have to hunt down and manually install all the dependencies your application needs to run. This can often lead to what is know as “dependency hell”- you keep installing dependencies, that need other dependencies to run, that need other depencies to run…
Can break your system!!!

7- Use Windows applications :

Windows software does not run in Linux but, you can try using a compatibly layer to try to run it – it’s called WINE, and it’s a handy application to always have installed. There are thousands of windows applications that run in Wine, some even faster than they run in Windows itself!
A more compatible, but slower option to legally run windows applications, is downloading a free MS Windows virtual machine and using it to run that particular option in antiX. This takes a lot of storage space and is slow. Low powered computers probably can’t even run a MS Windows virtual machine due to CPU and RAM constraints.

8- Play Windows Steam Games :

Last time I checked https://www.protondb.com/ there were about 6500 games available in STEAM that run in Linux. Activate Proton in your Steam client and just install any compatible game!
Cons: If your computer is so low powered that you choose to install antiX to make it usable, there aren’t many Steam games that can run comfortably in your system. If you have a new(ish) computer, you’re probably ok.

9 – Compile applications from the source code :

If you don’t even know what this means, don’t even try it.

10 – Run old DOS applications :

They run out of the box in antiX- DosBox has that covered- if you don’t know to use it, search on-line for help… It’s pretty intuitive.
PROS: very nearly 100% compatibility rate.

11- Run On-line applications :

General rule of thumb- if a web application runs, it runs well in Linux (probably it’s even housed in a server that runs Linux too).
You can use any Google service, Youtube, LYBR, Microsoft Office 365 on-line, Netflix, etc. It’s one of the of the benefits of having Web standards (you may need to run the web application in a particular browser, like for example- the browser needs to support DRM to enable some video streaming, like Netflix and HBO)…
CONS: I believe that at the present time video acceleration still does not work in Linux browsers out of the box. If you have a low powered CPU, video decoding or 3d video can slow to a crawl, because your system isn’t using any GPU processing power).

12- Run applications using emulators :

On antiX you can play, for example PlayStation 2 disks using a emulator. There’s also a free Windows 95 emulator for Linux (with dubious legal status).

Applications that DO NOT RUN in antiX:

– Generally speaking Windows applications or applications made for other OS’s (like MacOS, android, etc). A different subject is applications that have cross platform versions (i.e. have different versions, available for Windows and Linux – like Google Chrome/Chromium, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC )
– Applications packaged in a package format other than “.deb” or any universal application file format (there are more than appimage and flatpak)
– Snaps are unable to be installed in antiX because they depend on systemd, that is not present in antiX (you may run MX-Linux and choose to use systemd at the boot process for these applications).

To finish up:

There are many on-line sites that you can use to search for Linux applications. My personal favorite is:
https://www.pling.com/
It has many Appimages available, it offers a Appimage of the store web application, very handy to use.
Also App Outlet has a Appimage “Store” available, that shows Appimage and flatpak applications, that you can then download to your computer and use.

This “how to” is meant for newbies. More advanced users can, of course install software using the terminal ( the “apt install” command)

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How to install applications/software on antiX (2020 version):

You have recently found out about Linux or antiX in particular and you want to know how to install new software?

As almost everything in Linux in general and antiX in particular, there’s many ways to do stuff.

1- Use “Package Installer” ( Menu – Control Centre – System tab):
It’s like a small “antiX app store” – it has a list of over a hundred of the most installed software applications, divided into categories, searchable by application name (but not discription) – almost any browser you can think of, WINE, Steam, Java, VLC, language packages, are all instalable from there, using a single click- the user does not even get to see the many times dread terminal.

2- Use Synaptic package manager ( also available, among other places, in menu – Control Centre – System tab ):
Ok, this is a very powerfull application that allows you to install and manage any software application available from the Debian repositories- there are many tens of thousands available.
Use the search field on the upper right corner of the window to find the application you want- you can search by application name or description (ex: you can search by “VLC” or by “media player”). Select the application you want to install, Synaptic also installs any dependencies (files the application needs to run) and informs you of every thing it’s going to happen: how many files will be downloaded, the total download size, how much disk space it’s going to take). Confirm you want to install the selected files and wait a bit. The applications appear on the menu, ready to use, after the install process finishes.
Pros: many thousands of applications available. Does not require using the terminal at all. Installs probably anything you may need. Safe to user, does not in any way harm your system.
Cons: can be a bit overwellming to new users because it does not only show applications but their dependencies, and also fonts, drivers, etc. Does not automatically show any graphical previews of the applications ( no pretty pictures or videos to see, like, in mobile app stores) BUT you can select your application and try using the “get screenshot” button to… well, try to get a screenshot of that application…

3- Use cli-aptiX :
If you are not afraid to use the keyboard and are not detered by a interface that basicaly remains unchaged for decades, open a terminal and run cli-aptiX
It’s a gem! It’s as friendly as a keyboard only application can be: it offers to automaticaly update the database of system files (perform a apt update), and then allows you to install applications, for terminal or GUI, has a huge curated list of applications, and allows the user to search by application name or description!

4- Use Appimages :
It’s a universal application format- it’s meant to run in almost any Linux system- no installation needed!
There are on-line appimages application stores – this makes it easy to search for what you want. they have descriptions of the applications and usually a screenshot.
Good places to find appimage applications:
https://appimage.github.io/ (it has almost 1000 applications at this time)
https://www.appimagehub.com/ (it has almost 700 applications at this time)
Some software applications, like LibreOffice offer Appimage versions.

Pros: one application, one file. If you want to remove the application, just delete the file. Can’t harm your system. The worst it can happen is that the application needs some dependecy that’s not availbale and refuses to run.
Cons: you have to manually make it executable once you download the appimage – this can be boring but it’s a security feature and only has to be done once for each appimage file! Some appimages do not offer to automaticaly get added to the menu. Some appimages to no warn of upgrades. Can be hard to make files automaticaly run with a appimage application (easily solvable file association problems)
Appimages can be huge (because they pack almost everything they need to run) and a bit slower starting, particulary on low powered machines (because they have to be unpacked).

5- Use Flatpak :
It’s another universal application format.
First you need to install the flatpak application itself, then you can install applications packaged in flatpak format. You download the flatpak file for the application you want and then you have to install it.
There are some on-line flatpak application stores too.
Where to find flatpak applications:
https://flathub.org/home
Pros: on the user side, you only need to install a single file. Can’t harm your system, the worst that can happen is that the application can’t run.
Cons: at first flatpak needs to install many hundreds of Mb of dependencies, and only then you can install applications in flatpak format.
there are some integration problems with flatpak applications (exemple: they sometimes don’t match with system decorations, etc).

6- Manually install files:

6.1- .run applications or compressed binaries (.tar.bz):

Some software is available as compressed binaries like .tar.bz – just uncompress it and run the executable file.
You can get the most recent Mozilla FireFox version in this format.
Pros: safe to use, can’t, as far as I know, break your system (but can perform, as any software, malicious actions).
Easy and safe to uninstall- simple delete the uncompressed files!
Cons: you have to manually setup menu entries and file associations.

.run applications – almost the same as above, but automaticaly install everything.
Some device drivers come in this format.
Cons: as far as I know this can break your system. Try to install only files you know are safe (this is a univerally good advice).

6.2- .deb files :

“.deb” files are the packages that Debian, and Debian based distros use to install software. They work almost like “.msi” files available for MS Windows.
Synaptic and package installer simply automate the process of installing .deb files for you.
Manually installing these files can harm your system and make it unable to run. Do not try to use Ubuntu PPA’s! Do not try to use software that needs systemd – those probably won’t work with antiX and can harm your System.
Do you need a particular software unavailable in Packahe Installer or Synatic?- Ask in the forum, so the Development team tries to add it to antiX and wait for a reply.
That said, you can install thousands of .deb files in antiX! Simply download the file you want and open it in a file manager- a application called gdebi will try to install that file, or you can install it using the terminal.
Software from the Debian.org is as safe to install as it can be (as long as it does not depend on systemd). Open your web browser to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ and select the application you want – they are organized into categories.
Note: If a application is in debian.org, probably it’s better to install the very same application from Synaptic- it takes care of everything for you and avoids any complication.
Pros: debian.org is not a web site filled with eye candy, but it has many, many application screen shots availble. click the name of the application you want. On the upper right corner you’ll probably see a clickable thumbnail of the application, if one is available.
Sometimes there are .deb applications that run fine in antiX but are not officially available.
Cons: you have to find the file you want and install it yourself. You may have to hunt down and manually install all the dependencies your application needs to run. This can often lead to what is know as “dependency hell”- you keep installing dependencies, that need other depencies to run, that need other depencies to run…
Can break your system!!!

7- Windows applications :

Windows software does not run in Linux but, you can try using a compatibily layer to try to run it – it’s called WINE. There are thousands of windows applications that run in Linux, some even faster than they run in Windows it self!
A slower option to legally run windows applications is downloading a windows virtual machine and using it to run that particular option in antiX. This takes a lot of storage space and is slow. Low powered computers probably can’t even run a MS Windows virtual machine.

8- Windows Games :

There are over 5000 games available in STEAM that run in Linux. Activate Proton in your Steam client and just install any compatible game!
Cons: well, if your computer is so low powered that you choose to install antiX to make it usable, there aren’t many Steam games that can run confartably in your system. If you have a new(ish) computer, your’s probably safe

9- Old DOS applications:

They run out of the box in antiX- DosBox has that covered- if you don’t know to use it, search on-line for help… It’s pretty intuitive.
PROS: very nearly 100% compatibility rate.

10- On-line applications :

General rule of thumb- if a web application runs, it runs well in Linux (probably it’s even housed in a server that runs Linux too).
You can use any Google service, Youtube, LYBR, Microsoft Office 365 on-line, Netflix, etc. It’s one of the of the benificts of having Web standarts (you may need to run the web application in a particular browser, like for example- the browser needs to support DRM to enable some video streamming, like Netflix and HBO)…
CONS: I believe that at the present time video acceleration still does not work in Linux browsers out of the box. If you have a low powered CPU, video decoding or 3d video can slow to a crawl, because your system isn’t using any GPU processing power).

What applications do not run in antiX:

-Generally speaking Windows applications, and applications made for other OS’s (like MacOS, android, etc).
– applications packaged in a package format other than “.deb” or any universal application file format (there are more that appimage and flatpak)
– Snaps are unable to be installed in antiX because they depend on systemd, that is not present in antiX (you may run MX-Linux and choose to use systemd at the boot process for these applications).

To finish up:
There are many on-line sites that you can use to search for Linux applications. My personal favourite is:
https://www.pling.com/
it has many appimages available, it offers a appimage of the store web application, very handy to use.
Also App Outlet has a appimage Store available, that shows appimage and flatpak applications.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I had a looked at the package and it has a dependency for:
x-www-browser | www-browser | gnome-www-browser | firefox | qupzilla | google-chrome | opera

This is not needed.
Fixed deb should appear in the repos soon.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

I’ve been using the Brave Web Browser recently.

It’s available from https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com in apt form.

The browser is based on Mozilla licensed technology and I have found it to be fast, stable and lighter in feel than either Firefox or Google Chrome and I have not encountered any issues with running it. The software is now past the first release and it is worth adding to the package installer and possibly even the primary packaging. It’s that good.

By the way, I retried one of my old memory usage experiments, running various web browsers, a terminal client, and the htop program in the terminal to monitor resource usage. The two browsers that use the fewest overall resources are Palemoon and Seamonkey, but Seamonkey remains the most efficient user of memory and one of the most efficient overall as well (memory, disk, CPU) of the available browsers, including Brave. One reason both Palemoon and Seamonkey are less resource intensive is that they use fewer high consuming visual effects. In the case of Seamonkey, I have to use a “Classic Mode” of Yahoo Mail, for instance, because it doesn’t offer the very newest features.

I did not include Dillo or any of the “Links” browser varieties in my tests; they also lack the features found in the newer browsers. Palemoon probably offers a reasonable resource compromise, but it may not receive the latest security updates as fast as the newest, most prevalent browsers either. Chromium does a respectable job of providing a reasonable feature set and reasonable resource consumption.

For those who are suspicious of code that comes from places like Google or even Mozilla, though Brave is licensed through Mozilla, the Brave Web Browser is a rewrite of many code sections and the results are evident. The performance – feature blend is also appealing, with reasonable resource consumption.

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[Member lubod]

@PPC: Thanks for your suggestions. I knew about Palemoon, and will give it a shot, especially since it has a non-SSE2 version in the repos, I am trying to restore some Pentium 3 systems, which have no SSE2. Will also try Chromium which I also know, but while it is lighter than Chrome (and less privacy invading!) it may still be heavier than the other alternatives. Will definitely try Surf2, I thought I knew most of the alt. browsers, that one is new to me. Using gmail is a must, I don’t want to use two browsers for email and everything else, the goal is for one browser to rule them all, webpages and bookmarks and downloads.

Does your username choice indicate you are a Mac user? I still have a Snow iBook G3. 🙂 There is a Linux distro being developed (it’s not finished yet, but making good progress, that officially supports PowerPC still, and will as long as it exists: Adelie Linux.

PPC wrote:

I have 2 suggestions:
1- Palemoon
2- Ungoogled-chromium- but this browser is NOT as far as I know on antiX repos, but you don’t have to risk installing it’s Debian 10 .deb file- you can use a .appimage (just download the file, make it executable and then run it, no installation needed) or the “Portable Linux 64-bit” – just download the compressed file, extract the files, run the binary. It’s chromium but a lot lighter!

As far as I know there’s no way to limit firefox RAM usage (maybe a guru here knows how to do that…) also, a very light browser, but ancient: surf (or better yet surf2 – it’s very minimalist- just a window to view webpages. It uses d-menu to enter a new web address… works with gmail, if it has the correct dependencies, also works with youtube) . You can launch the web page directly from a script or the terminal, like this: surf http://www.antixforum.com)

P.

Restore older computers to working order.
Computers everyone else insists are obsolete and useless.

Current recordholder:
Generic Pentium III 600 Mhz with 512Mb RAM and 10Gb HD
Working on Cyrix M2 333 Mhz with 64Mb RAM and OS on IDE to SD card 4Gb