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[Anonymous]

@ kaye

1. I tried to install “slimjet_amd64.deb” through “Install with gdebi”.
Start menu entry was automatically added (1st screenshot).

2. You could easily go to Start Menu and enable “Rox-Panel”.
Then you go to /usr/share/applications, to “slimjet.desktop”.
Simply drag & drop “slimjet.desktop” on “Rox-Panel”.
(2nd & 3rd screenshot)

3. Also, if you ever took yourself a couple of minutes to simply “look around” …
You should have noticed “Add Menu” in Start Menu “Settings” by now.

Well, when you don’t know which command starts some application …

A. You go to /usr/share/applications/APPLICATION-NAME.desktop
(ex. /usr/share/applications/slimjet.desktop)

B. You open it in some text editor and look for “Exec= …” line.
That’s the command you need to execute in Terminal.

C. You make use of “Add Menu” …
(Screenshots 4, 5 & 6)

P.S.
You’d never want to use any other web browser except Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
And if — you wouldn’t want to install it, if it doesn’t come from the repository.
(See the last screenshot — it should be obvious why.)

[Member seaken64]

Hi Laristo,

I also have found LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before that) to be more than adequate. I haven’t used MS Office since Windows95 days.

I have switched to Google for e-mail. Used to use Thunderbird and Firefox also. Now I use Chrome and SeaMonkey most of the time and occasionally Firefox.

I still use Windows for my relational database manager using a program called Alpha Five. I have’t found a replacement for that in Linux. At least not one I can afford!

I also still use Windows for cable tv at home and recording using WMC and HDHomeRun. I don’t use the streaming services (Netflix, etc.) and my cable company only supports Windows. I would like to use antiX but I can’t figure it out yet. I have had a little success with Kodi and PlayOn. But mostly Windows for this application.

I can agree with you that the “user help” is lacking in Linux in general. I’ve always complained that the instructions in Linux are written as if you know what you do not know. But if you have been with Linux 18 months and have not quit then I think you are well suited to Linux.

You should have seen it 20 years ago! My first Linux was Slackware and there was no pretty gui to help you install. It came on several floppy disks or CD-ROM and was all in text. You needed to buy a book from the book store to help you through it.

I wouldn’t say that any computer operating systems are really that user friendly in the beginning. Windows had a large user base and lots of books and teachers. Linux relied on corporate IT departments to set things up for users. It was not until recently that many users would even attempt to install an OS for themselves. And as you mentioned, the modern Linux distros do a pretty good job of working.

In terms of user friendliness I would put MX-18 ahead of antiX-17. MX tends to be easier to use and usually works quite well without a lot of fuss. antiX is closer to the older style of setup espoused by the likes of Slackware or Debian. Most users will need some help setting things up. And the documentation does require some geek speak and some level of nerdiness.

Good luck on getting to know your new operating system!

Seaken64

[Anonymous]

@DaveW

“There are a lot of conflicting online reviews regarding the relative effectiveness of various anti-virus programs.”

Yup — and it’s perfectly logical, if you think about it.

You have to understand it as a ‘snapshot’ — the ‘momentary view’.

There are too many variables in game but, also some facts, when you’re measuring over time.

One and the same AV Program is once better, once worse but, after 20 years, one will show up as a clear “reliability winner over time”.

And, some others (ClamAV, F-Prot …) will show as a “reliability loosers over time”.

P.S.
Some are claiming, that there are a couple of thousands of new viruses per day.
I didn’t count it myself but, that seems very realistic to me.

Modern malware transforms itself upon each successful infection and changing only 1 bit of code gives a new checksum (== new malware; without AV signatures).
Now count the difference between 98, 99 or 99,5 % detection rate and then, tell me how useful is AV-Software with detection rates of 40 or 20 %. 😉

@manyroads

Thanks for the great link in #25195 (The 6 Best Free Linux Antivirus Programs), which brings us back to my post #25036 (my original answer to OP).

Comodo, ClamAV and F-Prot are not working, Chkrootkit and Rootkit Hunter being rootkit hunters and not fully-fledged AV programs.

At the bottom (paid) we get ESET (good), F-Secure (so-so), Web (useless) and Avast (so-so).

I expected something new … something like: but, it’ll not run on ‘junkputers’, or: it needs at least 1.2 GB RAM (for the ‘naked desktop’, right after the start), or maybe: that review is a crap — the Sophos Screenshot is still showing the old version 8, since the version 9 DOESN’T have any GUI, or something … as expected. 😉

P.S.
“I tried sophos and it only took a few minutes before I threw into the bit bucket…”
“Don’t believe everything you think.” 😉

@dgh

Than let’s compare your ‘junkputer’ with my computers. 😉

We’ll simply make 1:1 install.

You can show me how good that great Pentium II with 256 MB RAM will compare running 10 ~ 20 VM’s simultaneously; you can explain to the support people that it’s their shi**y policy that doesn’t fit your utopic freedom bill, when they tell you: “Our graphic cards are certified to run those CAD applications only on RHEL, SuSe and Ubuntu”, you can show me …

How long something operates, interests nobody. The customers are paying you to get the job done. At the end, it has to work properly. They don’t care why it doesn’t work. And they don’t care why you didn’t test it on a modern HW, such as what they use. BTW. No big surprise if it still works. More primitive the technology (simpler, biger structures…), longer life expectancy, just as with any other piece of technique ever produced. Some antique crank-phone will also live longer than your smartphone. 😉

On the other side, one computer is a sum of many parts and it’s indisputable that many parts are ageing and overall reliability is sinking over time or … if I have a contract with a deadline and rely on working computer, and if I borrow your “ancient treasure”, can you guarantee me, that it’ll be working until the end of the project? You see, my brand new one will probably not break, if it breaks, it’ll be repaired or replaced in the next 24 hours. Might be unimportant for watching YouTube but, there’s work and ‘work’.

And yes, I imply that SERIOUS work can’t be done with such old junk.

Let’s write something simple, a simple, responsive website (as example) …

You can write the code on anything … 25 year old Pentium will do and any text editor.

You MUST use the most recent version of Google Chrome because of it’s ‘developers tools and so, you might already get in trouble with 32-bit Chrome.

Once some code was written, you need to test it too — it’s supposed to work on all MODERN HW … Edge (Windows), Safari (Mac), Chrome, Firefox … Android & iOS.

So, you need to have at least one Mac, not older than a couple of years (or you’ll not get the latest upgrades), one Windows running on 10, and at least a half a dozen of Smartphones (yes, the top models too, because of their exotic screens, and some average-user models, since they make the majority).

And no, you can’t afford not doing it that way — Google Chrome can emulate the screens of other devices but, it’s not showing exactly the same as the original device.
One form working on Chrome and Firefox, might not always work in Safari or … many, many other small things might go wrong.

If you don’t do it that way, you’ll never find out if your website works or not.

My old Symbian mobile still works fine. Shall I use it for testing? 😉
I mean … instead of XS Max and S10? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Keep dreaming …

Trolls like you can’t …

… ignore the reality just because it doesn’t suit their ideology or “freedom dreams”, or can they? 😉

P.S.
Or … you’d rather tell me a tale about “32-bit lean and mean, alive and kickin'”?
(See screenshot … and that’s not the only example.)

[Member PPC]

babtras wrote:

Hello there!

make it practical for some limited daily use.

Hi and welcome! I am in the same situation as you, using a old single core netbook at home, as my main pc… For internet browsing and youtube videos, I mostly use a lighter browser than Firefox ESR- ungoogled chromium- it runs suprisingly light… If you are short on RAM it’s a plus! I also use SMplayer and even directly mpv or gnome-mpv to view youtube videos (and also videos from lots of other streaming sites), but you probably have to upgrade youtube-dl, if antiX does not do so by itself…
For office work, LibreOffice is a competent suite, but it may seem a bit slow on older machines, even with the quick start enabled (that does not exist in the newer version that will come with antiX19)… I tried on-line office suites -but they are even slower than native applications.
While browsing I tend to have only one or 2 tabs open and I don’t tend to multitask a lot, not to strain my system resources, and antiX runs great, a couple of tasks at a time :-).
If you aldready didn’t try to do so, take a look at the different Desktop Managers – JWM and Fluxbox may look “ugly” out of the box but they are even lighter than the Default IceWM… If you want to save some 20 Mb of RAM, use IceWM, but without desktop icons (no ROX or SPACEFM prefix)…

P.

[Member macondo]

PPC wrote:

BobC wrote:

And anytime you want 5.4 mb more you can remove volumeicon from startup, and add an Alsamixer icon to the toolbar to replace it.

A bit off topic:

I also use that little trick- when my RAM is low, I simply close volumeicon. I fiddled with having a quick launch button to call a volume mixer, but ended up opting to, when I want to change my volume, simply do a Menu- Run -“volumeicon”.
For me about 5 mb of RAM is a considerable percentage of my available memory…
P.

I control the volume with the control key + the down and up keys, I got them in my .icewm/keys:

key “F1” lxterminal
key “F2” xfe
key “Ctrl+f” firefox
key “Ctrl+g” google-chrome-stable
key “Ctrl+w” waterfox
key “F7” mirage
key “F8” hexchat
key “Print” lxterminal -e scrot -cd 10

#Sound
key “Ctrl+Down” amixer -q set Master 9%- # lower volume
key “Ctrl+Up” amixer -q set Master 9%+ # raise volume

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by macondo.

antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

"Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

[Member macondo]

PPC wrote:

BobC wrote:

And anytime you want 5.4 mb more you can remove volumeicon from startup, and add an Alsamixer icon to the toolbar to replace it.

A bit off topic:

I also use that little trick- when my RAM is low, I simply close volumeicon. I fiddled with having a quick launch button to call a volume mixer, but ended up opting to, when I want to change my volume, simply do a Menu- Run -“volumeicon”.
For me about 5 mb of RAM is a considerable percentage of my available memory…

P.

I knock off the volume icon (5 MB RAM) and that slim weighs as much as the whole icewm wm. I use keybindings for my volume:

My .icewm/keys file:

key “F1” lxterminal
key “F2” xfe
key “Ctrl+f” firefox
key “Ctrl+g” google-chrome-stable
key “Ctrl+w” waterfox
key “F7” mirage
key “F8” hexchat
key “Print” lxqterminal -e scrot -cd 10

#Sound
key “Ctrl+Down” amixer -q set Master 9%- # lower volume
key “Ctrl+Up” amixer -q set Master 9%+ # raise volume

By pressin the Control key and the Down arrow, lowers the volume, and Ctrl+Up arrow key, the opposite, saves me 5 megs ram, if only i can eliminate slim and go back to startx, another 5 megs.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by macondo.

antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

"Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

[Member PPC]

I suck at design, but a stylized ant with the legs arranged to look like an X could be a nice logo for antiX
(Ex: some stylized ants on-line: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxcdn.icons8.com%2FShare%2Fgoogle%2Fa%2Fant.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Ficons8.com%2Ficon%2F4451%2Fant&docid=Yw4V3uSH45ZwwM&tbnid=ouk8pxpDnE4ZQM%3A&vet=12ahUKEwjc57Kt3-biAhWi1uAKHXi5D8w4ZBAzKGIwYnoECAEQZg..i&w=1200&h=960&client=firefox-b-d&bih=635&biw=1024&q=ant%20svg&ved=2ahUKEwjc57Kt3-biAhWi1uAKHXi5D8w4ZBAzKGIwYnoECAEQZg&iact=mrc&uact=8) One image that would fit the bill is something like the top right ant on that image, with slightly differently arranged legs to form a “X”…

I hope anticapitalista is interest in a new logo (well, there is really no logo, so saying just “a logo” would do 🙂 ).

@ NoClue- the icebergs would be really really cool minimalist wallpapers…

P.

[Member PPC]

manyroads wrote:

Looking at your screen shot (conky), I can tell you that I am getting a clean version of xfce to run at 305MB, fluxbox at about 280MB as a comparison to the 380-ish yours shows..

@Manyroads- Correct, my friend, but in my screenshot, you can see that I’m running both Firefox and the calendar (it’s in fact only the command “yad –calendar”). Idle RAM is really about 140 Mb (give or take a couple of Mb).

I agree with your point of view about the fact that there are only small difference between all those desktops, comparing “apples to apples”. In my limited experience Flubox and JWM are almost even as being the ones that take up less idle RAM, that’s way I began “modding” Fluxbox, because I use a netbook with a 1 gig of shared RAM, and FB offered me a bit more free RAM. Not using composition (that you use), or a notification daemon, or desktop icons, etc, can shave a few Mb of RAM usage- not meaningful for more modern computers, but precious when the user has very low RAM.

Off topic- Side note on putting RAM to good use- In my experience the less RAM hungry of all “major” internet browsers is a fork of Chromium- ungoogled Chromium (I use it in a Appimage, but it’s a bit outdated, which is a security concern). Also, someone should put a shortcut for smtube with the YouTube icon on the bar/desktop- I believe most users don’t realize that it’s really a YouTube player, the kind most people use on their phones/tablets, that runs very well on very low powerful specs machines (even single cores with 500 Mb of RAM).

P.

[Member PPC]

Hi, everyone, one final entry about this JWM costumizationm in antiX 19A2… To work in previous antiX versions you have to change the icons for every single icon- you can use those from my orinal antiX 17.X post…

Computers sometimes bug me. Restarted my computer and out of the blue, now the clock was in the right color!?

So, for everyone out there, and even for a future me that forgot how I managed to mod JWM, here’s the final .JMWR file.
Once again- follow the procedures indicated in the OP (back up everything first), delete all of “.tray” file contents and saving it, and then deleting all of “,jmwr” file contents and pasting this, and then saving it.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<JWM>

<!-- Initialize the applications used in conjunction with JWM -->
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/startup</Include>

<!-- The root menu, if this is undefined you will not get a menu. -->
<!-- Additional RootMenu attributes: onroot, labeled, label -->
<RootMenu height="20">
	<!-- The backbone antiX menu -->
	<Include>$HOME/.jwm/menu</Include>
	<!-- Added to the end of the menu (more menu entries can be added) -->
   <Separator/>
   <Menu label="Terminar Sessão..." icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/application-exit.png">
     <Restart label="Reiniciar JWM" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/view-refresh.png"/>
     <Program label="Terminar Sessão" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/application-exit.png">desktop-session-exit</Program>
   </Menu>
</RootMenu>

<Include>$HOME/.jwm/keys</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/theme</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/tray</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/preferences</Include>

<!-- TRAY -->
<!-- Additional Tray attributes: autohide, width, border, layer, layout, valign -->
<Tray x="0" y="-1" height="28" layer="above" valign="bottom">
	<!-- Additional TrayButton attributes: label, icon, popup -->
	<!-- TRAY BUTTONS - INCLUDING THE MENU BUTTON, all icons to the left of the tasklist-->
		<TrayButton  label=" " popup="Menu" icon="/usr/share/icons/numix-bevel-antix/32x32/apps/windows.png">root:1</TrayButton>
		<Spacer width="5"/>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Search Applications via keyboard (ESC exits, Enter selects app)" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/apps/5961_Defunct_x86.0.png">exec:dmenu_run -l 10 -i -b -fn 10×20 -nb black -nf white -sb grey -sf black</TrayButton>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Terminal" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/apps/Terminal.png">exec:lxterminal</TrayButton>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Space File Manager" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/apps/system-file-manager.png">exec:spacefm</TrayButton>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="FireFox Browser" icon="/usr/share/icons/numix-bevel-antix/32x32/apps/firefox.png">exec:firefox</TrayButton>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Desktop" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/places/user-blue-desktop.png">showdesktop</TrayButton>
		<!-- The next line is for "skippy-xd"- a Expose like task switcher. Install the 60kb deb file from https://code.google.com/archive/p/skippy-xd/downloads or feel free to delete the next line if you do not want to use it -->	
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Task Switcher" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/apps/cs-workspaces.png">exec:skippy-xd</TrayButton>
		<Spacer width="10"/>

<!-- TASK LIST - displays the names of all running windows. Choose maxwidth of 25 to see only the icons or 325 for viewing "normal" long windows names-->
<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->
   <TaskList maxwidth="325"/>

   <!-- Additional Dock attribute: none -->
   <Dock/>
   <!-- Additional Swallow attribute: height, width -->
   <!-- <Swallow name="xload" height="28" width="30"> xload -update 2 -jumpscroll 1 -nolabel -bg black -fg green -hl black </Swallow> -->
	<!-- TRAY BUTTONS - icons to the right of the tasklist-  eject, connman-->
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Eject USB devices" icon="/usr/share/icons/numix-bevel-antix/32x32/actions/media-eject.png">exec:unplugdrive.sh</TrayButton>
		<TrayButton label="" popup="Network settings (Connman)" icon="/usr/share/icons/numix-bevel-antix/32x32/apps/cs-network.png">exec:connman-gtk</TrayButton>
   <!-- CLOCK -->
   <!-- Additional Clock attributes: format, height, width, zone -->
		<Clock format="%H:%M">
		<Text>white</Text>
		<Button mask="123">exec:yad --calendar --width=400 --no-buttons  --title=Calendar --mouse</Button></>
	<!-- TRAY BUTTONS - icons to the right of the clock- Exit-->
	<TrayButton label="" popup="Exit Session" icon="/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/32x32/apps/xfsm-logout.png">exec:desktop-session-exit</TrayButton>

</Tray>
	
<!-- VISUAL STYLES- OR THEMES -->

<!-- WINDOW visual theme-->
	<WindowStyle>
		<Font>ubuntu-11:bold</Font>
		<Width>5</Width>
		<Height>26</Height>
		<Corner>4</Corner>
		<Foreground>#969696</Foreground>
		<Background>#555555</Background>
		<Outline>#000000</Outline>
		<Opacity>0.5</Opacity>
		<Active>
			<Foreground>#DDDDDD</Foreground>
			<Background>#333333:#AAAAAA</Background>
			<Outline>#333333</Outline>
			<Opacity>1.0</Opacity>
		</Active>
	</WindowStyle>

<!-- TRAY visual theme-->
	<TrayStyle group="false" list="all">
		<Font>ubuntu-10</Font>
		<Background>#555555</Background>
		<Foreground>white</Foreground>
		<Outline>#000000</Outline>
		<Opacity>0.75</Opacity>
	</TrayStyle>

<!-- CLOCK visual theme-->
<ClockStyle>
	<Font antialias="false">smoothansi</Font>
	<Font>ubuntu-10</ont>
	<Text>white</Text>
	<Foreground>white</Foreground>
	<Background>#555555</Background>
</ClockStyle>

<!-- UNUSED- PAGER visual theme-->
<PagerStyle>
		<Outline>#222222</Outline>
		<Foreground>#555555</Foreground>
		<Background>#333333</Background>
		<Text>#FFFFFF</Text>
		<Active>
			<Foreground>#0077CC</Foreground>
			<Background>#333333:#AAAAAA</Background>
		</Active>
	</PagerStyle>

<!-- MENU visual theme-->
	<MenuStyle>
		<Font>ubuntu-9</Font>
		<Foreground>#FFFFFF</Foreground>
		<Background>#333333:#FFFFFF</Background>
		<Outline>#222222</Outline>
		<Active>
			<Background>#0077CC</Background>
			<Foreground>white</Foreground>
			<Background>#333333:#AAAAAA</Background>
		</Active>
		<Opacity>0.85</Opacity>
	</MenuStyle>

<!-- POPUP DECORATIONS-->	
	<PopupStyle>
		<Font>ubuntu-9</Font>
		<Foreground>white</Foreground>
		<Background>#222222</Background>
		<Outline>#222222</Outline>
	</PopupStyle>

<!-- Virtual Desktops -->
	<!-- Desktop tags can be contained within Desktops for desktop names. -->
	<Desktops width="4" height="1">
		<!-- Default background. Note that a Background tag can be
			  contained within a Desktop tag to give a specific background
			  for that desktop.
		 -->
		<Background type="solid">#111111</Background>
	</Desktops>

<!-- shades of grey - some extra decorations from that theme-->
<WindowStyle>
	</Active>
		<Foreground>grey44</Foreground>
		<Background>grey22:black</Background>
	<Outline>black</Outline>
</WindowStyle>

<!-- Double click speed (in milliseconds) -->
	<DoubleClickSpeed>400</DoubleClickSpeed>

<!-- Double click delta (in pixels) -->
	<DoubleClickDelta>2</DoubleClickDelta>

<!-- The focus model (sloppy or click) -->
	<FocusModel>click</FocusModel>

<!-- The snap mode (none, screen, or border) -->
	<SnapMode distance="10">border</SnapMode>

<!-- The move mode (outline or opaque) and show/hide coordinates when moving a window -->
	<MoveMode>opaque</MoveMode>
	<MoveMode coordinates="off">outline</MoveMode>

<!-- The resize mode (outline or opaque) -->
	<ResizeMode>opaque</ResizeMode>

<!-- KEY BINDINGS - this definitions are used in conjunction with those in the .keys file -->
	<Key key="Up">up</Key>
	<Key key="Down">down</Key>
	<Key key="Right">right</Key>
	<Key key="Left">left</Key>
	<Key key="h">left</Key>
	<Key key="j">down</Key>
	<Key key="k">up</Key>
	<Key key="l">right</Key>
	<Key key="Return">select</Key>
	<Key key="Escape">escape</Key>
	<Key mask="A" key="Tab">nextstacked</Key>
	<Key mask="A" key="F4">close</Key>
	<Key mask="A" key="space">window</Key>
	<Key mask="A" key="F10">maximize</Key>
	<Key mask="CA" key="D">showdesktop</Key>
	<Key mask="CAS" key="R">exec:jwm -restart</Key>
	<!-- TO USE SUPER kEY /WINDOWS KEY TO SUMMON THE ROOT MENU. "133" IN MY KEYBOARD IS SUPER KEY. RUN XEV AND PRESS THE SUPER KEY AND USE THE KEY CODE THAT THE TERMINAL WINDOW SHOWS -->
	<Key keycode="133">root:1</Key>
	<!-- TO USE Print screen key to get a screen shot. IF "111" or "107" DON'T NOT WORK FOR YOU, RUN XEV AND PRESS THE SUPER KEY AND USE THE KEY CODE THAT THE TERMINAL WINDOW SHOWS -->
	<Key keycode="107">exec:antixscreenshot.sh</Key>
	
<!--THE FOLLOWING ALWAYS HAS TO BE THE LAST LINE!!!-->
</JWM>

Just for kicks, the screenshot below shows how the task bar looks like displaying only icons, and not icons and text.

Changes:
-I ended up adding “pop up” descriptions to every quickstart icon (being careful to explicitly warn possible users how to exit dmenu search menu).
-Windows and Print Screen keys work as usual, but they may not work in all keyboards. If so, read the comments, in the last few lines of the file, you see how to change those keybinding to work for you…
-The theme works the same all around- selected menu entries, the focused running window and the corresponding entry in the taskbar are all highlighted in the same gradient (don’t forget using the recommended shades-of-grey theme).
-The background of currently running applications in the taskbar was left black so, if you are using the “icons only” taskbar, the user (me 🙂 can tell, at a glance what are the quick start icons and the running apps icons… I noticed, after the fact, that MX did a very similar choice.

@Noclue- thanks for the nickpicking… any new suggestions? If so, I’ll probably use them only for me, and not post new files here… but who knows?

Bye for now,

P.

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[Anonymous]

I might be wrong but, if not, activating IPv6 support should be pretty easy:

Open the Terminal and …

Check settings:
cat /etc/network/interfaces
(The default output should look like on my screenshots)

Add IPv6 support — open the file:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

One line under the line:
allow-hotplug eth0

Add this line:
iface eth0 inet6 dhcp

Save and close the editor and execute:
sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0

You should see your new assigned IPv6 address.

What I can’t really understand is, what’s the sense of it. If I’m not completely wrong …

From IPv4 networks, you can’t reach IPv6 networks and other way round, except you use a ‘translator’ (== proxy) BUT, if you use a proxy, you don’t have to activate absolutely anything, you only need to change the web browser and activate VPN proxy in it.

My settings didin’t change nor I activated IPv6 (see screenshots 1 – 4).

Firefox will NOT show the website ‘www.six.heise.de’ (that’s IPv6 version of ‚heise.de’) but, Opera will show it. Google IPv6 test tells me only, my computer is IPv6 ready.

If I activate IPv6, I’m still unable to reach any IPv6 website from my IPv4 network.

So, the whole thing is more on the side of your internet provider — if it doesn’t explicitly support the IPv6, activating it will bring you nothing.

Here some test websites:

https://www.wieistmeineip.de/ipv6-test/
https://ipv6test.google.com/
https://ipv6-test.com/
https://test-ipv6.com/

[Member PPC]

hi!

The only cons I found on antiX 19 a1 and a2 were this:
1- I only use it via live USB, no persistence. A1 did not suspend on my intel atom netbook (antix 16.x intalled, does), A2 did suspend, but when I first rebooted it presented me with a terminal only, even if I choose secure video mode. I had to try several options ( I belive f7 and then pressing space on choosing the video mode did the trick).
2- Maybe because of using connman (???) antiX 19 takes some 2-3 mb more of idle ram (no big deal).
3- I previously commented on the great looking, more modern icon style used. Papirus (I use it in MX) is now available out of the box? Great! But there are some very cryptic or poorly choosen icons in the control centre, once again I offer my help on a couple of icons (like the changing video resolution or one of the keyboard language options that I consider would be more understandable if if looked like a keyboard). Also the previous printer icon looked more like a printer than the current one. It looks like MX’s scanner icon… If you don’t want to spend the effort changing this, it’s literally no big deal.
4- I’m one of the loners that use fluxbox… Yeah, the icons look a bit low res, as I understand it, it’s a FB problem with round icons- not a deal breaker for me, but still, a bit of a eye sore for people that are picky with icons…
5- when I turn on the firewall it blocks my net connection, even when I tick off the block incomming traffic… Is this only on my machine or a general problem? I believe I tested the firewall in a1 and it turned on, but I can’t recall if I tested net traffic after doing that…

Now the good parts:
1- I have no idea why Libreoffice 6.X starts in some 2-3 seconds (after the first time), even in the installed version antiX 16.X (and 17.X live usb) took some 3-4 times that! A newer version that starts faster even without the quick start menu? Great! Maybe antiX now caches LO info in a better way?
2- once again I have no idea why, SMYoutube player open 360 or 480 video streams almost instantly, takes some 2-3 seconds to start viewing the video. Used to take some 10 seconds or more, even in the installed version, in the same or better hardware! Streaming videos with reasonable resolution, with no adds? Better than youtube red 🙂
3- the antiX team after polishing antiX internal machine decided to polish a little more the exterior… First new sweet log off icons, ubuntu fonts, now new icon themes. Wise choice, in my humble opinion. I’ve been runnig antiX for about 2 years now. Only during the last half of that time I’ve been tinkering with it’s appearance. It runs fast out of the box, now it also looks a lot better!
4- The default desktop image and, even better the darker “back” image, are some of the best I’ve seen in any distro. Don’t “brand” it, it’s perfect the way it is!!! (It’s just my personal taste, I admit)

Suggestions:
1- if the antiX team is polishing the UI why not considering a bit of eye candy with skippy-xd? It’s a great task switcher- does not take any idle ram (or so I believe) and it’s a 2XX kb deb file… I even run it direclty without having installed it! No dependencies on antiX/MX
2- I’ve been paying some attention to Manyroad’s efforts regarding the antiX UI. Making jgmenu available out of the box could be nice- the only thing that convinced me trying it out was finding out it has a in-built application search. Open in, start typing and it only shows the apps that are in the search term. Just like whisker menu in MX. It takes some 4-5mb od RAM but you can configure it to not stay on ram if not being used. In my very old machines, when configured that way and running from live usb it has a very small lag ( Fluxbox menu is really instant). The lag is about the same as I have in my MX box when pressing the “windows” key, less than a second…

Folks, it’s a great release, so good and stable that I want to install it on my netbook to replace antiX 16.X, even being just a alpha!
If you have a spare usb stick and can boot from it, try it, you won’t regret it!

P.

Edit 24/5/2019:
The live usb “boot to terminal only” situation happened again in: I had to choose the first boot option and f7- space to be able to boot to my Desktop. One thing was messed up when it booted: My “Live” folder was missing… I found it in a folder like “/boot/live*”. Very strange, made it hard to apply my customizations, the paths were all wrong)
Once booted to my desktop, it’s still rock solid and fast (using SM Youtube player is a pleasure now it opens the videos almost instantly)
Another Suggestion: Ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) runs very light and fast in my A2 live USB (via Appimage). I mean, in antiX Fluxbox, without desktop icons, I have this full fledged Internet browser up and running in way less than 300 Mb (a nice option for folks with less than 1 Gig of RAM). Someone already commented this browser was good on another thread. I agree- but, it also seems to be a on man only project, so, there’s no certainty of upgrades. In my limited experience it runs as light as a chromium based browser can run, and in much less ram than Firefox, or Firefox-ESR. Can this be added to the package installer, so the “regular” anti users can try it out?

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[Member PPC]

About old computers:
My home computer is a single core intel atom netbook with 1 gig shared RAM. Using antiX and Ungoogled-chromium, I’m able to run youtube videos at 720p. It’s even better if I use mpv to watch a video- with some limitations I can watch even full hd videos… (I may sound like a old man in a time when 4k is trying to become the standard)
From this browser or Firefox-ESR I can run basically almost every single site on the web (exceptions- web sites that use out dated tech like Silverlight- saddly that limitation makes me unable to watch my web tv service in my antiX box 🙁 )
I can run LibreOffice just fine, I can run on-line MS Office365 just fine, I can use my printer out of the box, no need to install drivers.
All this in a 10 year old machine that was already low spec when it came out. Why buy new hardware when I can do 98% of what I what to do (and really what most users do) with this machine?
Oh, maybe if I was a gamer, sure, a high spec machine may be worth the investment. But I haven’t been a gamer (except maybe on mobile platforms) for some 15 years…
And with the possible advent of google’s streaming gaming service, maybe I’ll be able to play up to date games with my computer if I want to… maybe…
Thanks antiX team for making be able to still have a computing experience without the need to buy new hardware…

P.

[Anonymous]

To make it short and easy understandable:

As a home / hobby user, you’ve got nothing to worry about.

Theoretically exploitable over the javaScript in web browser but, all web browser (‘all’ == Google Chrome & FireFox) developers are patching their browsers regularly.

Professionals (== Linux servers) are having a seriuos problem.

In case where multiple VM’s are running on the same host (== as good as always) and if ‘the bad guy’ starts his ‘hostile’ guest VM on the same server, it can read all (random) data of all other VM’s which run on the exact same processor core/thread in a given moment.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Neue-Sicherheitsluecken-in-Intel-Prozessoren-ZombieLoad-4421217.html
https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Updates-gegen-die-Intel-Prozessorluecken-ZombieLoad-Co-4422413.html

Meltdown, Spectre and Co. are ‘running’ just as fine on AMD processor as well as on your Smartphones (Qualcomm) as well as almost every other hyperthreading processor ever made.

Intel got a few culprits more just because they made the most efficient hyperthreading up to date.

Additional Intel problem is IMEI — which is digged very deep in their products.

After the last year’s hack and the one before it, there’s another one …

https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Viele-Intel-Rechner-brauchen-wieder-BIOS-Updates-4335118.html
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Intel-fixt-teils-kritische-Luecken-in-UEFI-BIOS-ME-und-Linux-Grafiktreiber-4423912.html

[Member PPC]

Hi! I guess this are the only questions that still don’t have answers:

Q 4. I cannot drag and drop files from SpaceFM to Gmail email composer. I can drop the file in the email content area, but not along the B I U A line (bold, italic, underline) below the content area. Please try it.
A: Sorry I don’t quite understand your problem, because I use the simpler Gmail web page, and I load attachments from firefox “menu” and not via drag and drop. But I may suggest that you try using Google Chrome and see if that way it works as intended…

Q 6: someone already offered a fix for that, I advise you to do that.
I, because I rarely use my ntfs partition in netbook, that shows me the same error, choose to mount the partition via the terminal (in your case try “sudo mount /dev/sda5”). That only mounts the partition until you restart antiX.
Complicated work around (don’t try this, bit knowing you can use spacefm this way can be handy)- You can run this in a more friently way by using SpaceFM via root and→ Tools → New command → chosing a name ex: “mount drive sda” and then the command. Now everytime you open root SpaceFm, it’s tools menu has the option “mount drive sda”

Q 15. I noticed that AntiX comes with LibreOffice 5.2.7.2
Is it because it’s more lightweight than newer versions?
Would it cause problems for AntiX to remove it and install a newer, but not the latest, version? I did it with another distro by downloading the version and executing this command: sudo dpkg -i *.deb
I downloaded the desired version here:
http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
A: Please wait a bit more, antix 19, currently on (a very stable) alpha comes with LibreOffice 6.X. Or you can run a appimage LibreOffice for the version you want over from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/ on the current antiX version you have.

Welcome to antiX. If you have antique harware, it’s the best Os available for you, well worth the small learning curve to find out how to do stuff like adding quick lunch icons…
For a bit more powerfull machines (with at least 2 Gb of ram), feel free to try MX linux, it’s partialy based in antiX, but a bit more user friendly with it’s XFCE Desktop enviroment.
I use both OS in differnt machines. I tweaked my antiX a bit to make it look almost like MX (yes you can do that)

Some generic advice related to the Desktop options antiX offers – in the “menu – desktop – other desktops” you have many options. I read what they all mean after starting using antiX, but it took a while to sink in…
In short- there are 3 Desktops (Window Managers) that antiX provides Out of the Box: ICEWM, Fluxbox and JWM. There are a lot more than these 3 options because: to provide desktop images/Icons they all need to use other programs, in antiX case the file managers ROX (uses less RAM) or SpaceFM (looks more like a “usual” file manager). When you want to use the lightest DE possible use the minimum “Min” version- you don’t even get, for example, icons near the clock. That’s what this prefixes mean in the desktop window manager’s names…

P.

Edit: thanks to noclue, I used the correct expressions: IceWM, Fluxbox and JWM are really not Desktop Enviroments

• This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by PPC.

[Anonymous]

Then you’re fine out.

Because of Brave, I’d like to suggest to keep away from it … from any other web browser except Firefox and Google Chrome.

The intentions of Brave and co. are fine but, small teams can’t offer what they promise.

Brave versions are always based on older Chromium releases and the security
holes are getting closed too slow.

If you speak German, I could provide you a link to high-quality, professional document on how to make a ‘Fortress’
out of Firefox and make it much more secure and ‘privacy aware’ then Brave will ever be.