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[Anonymous]

Hey Folks,

Sorry, don’t mean to necrobump, but I just want to report that I am also getting this error.

$ inxi -zv7
System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: i3 4.19.1-non-git info: i3bar 
           vt: 7 dm: N/A Distro: antiX-21_x64-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E7270 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0K4CNR v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.31.3 date: 10/13/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.7 Wh (91.4%) condition: 51.1/55.0 Wh (92.9%) volts: 8.3 min: 7.6 
           model: LGC-LGC3.65 DELL NJJ2H type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
Memory:    RAM: total: 11.63 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (18.0%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake rev: 3 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           bogomips: 19968 
           Speed: 729 MHz min/max: 400/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 729 2: 747 3: 782 4: 759 
           Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush 
           clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma 
           fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single kaiser 
           lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm 
           pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse 
           sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic 
           xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:5686 class-ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
           chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 
           chip-ID: 8086:156f class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3 
           class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
           Device-1: swap type: LUKS dm: dm-1 size: 7.98 GiB 
           Components: p-1: sda4 
           Device-2: root.fsm type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 214.8 GiB 
           Components: p-1: sda3 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 46.31 GiB (20.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS240G2G0B-00EPW0 size: 223.57 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD 
           serial: <filter> rev: 0400 scheme: GPT 
           Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 210.37 GiB used: 46.25 GiB (22.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: root.fsm label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID-2: /boot size: 487.2 MiB used: 52.3 MiB (10.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: boot 
           uuid: fbe4d676-c50b-4c52-a4b4-e8ffdaf792b0 
           ID-3: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 9.2 MiB (3.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: EFI System uuid: 5C3B-F379 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: swap 
           label: swapantiX uuid: ce86bab7-039b-4a8e-a969-f5ca3b399251 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:5686 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Device-2: 1-4:3 info: Microsoft Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 045e:0745 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-3: 1-7:4 info: Broadcom 5880 type: Smart Card driver: N/A interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a5c:5805 class-ID: 0b00 serial: <filter> 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.5 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 211 Uptime: 7m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 
           Packages: apt: 1274 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: lxterminal inxi: 3.3.06 

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Regarding the telemetry, yeah, the default, and the way the World Wide Web was created from the very beginning, made information very accessible, but yes, the complete and absolute security of what you’re doing, where you’ve been, etc. has always been in question from the very beginning.

I was aware of much of this information before the “famous” (or infamous, depending on your opinion) major, significant release of Windows 95, which, for better or worse, truly helped the masses for the first time gain access to the kind of computing information I’ve had access to since at least the early eighties, as far as the broadest reaches of the Internet, and longer than that, as far as industry-wide technology and information.

I remember when Microsoft made a marketing contract with the owners of the Rolling Stones tune, “Start Me Up!”. Very successful marketing campaign. That technology caused me to purchase my own personal computer for the first time, and it came with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and I purchased a Windows 95 kit and a book about Slackware – “Linux: Configuration and Installation (Mis Press Slackware Series) by Eric Foster-Johnson, Patrick Volkerding, and Kevin Reichard.”

It was this book that got me actively into Linux, though I had been following it in literature for a few years. After that, my next door neighbor, also interested in Linux from a telephony perspective (he and a partner built a company and made their in house phone system based on a small business phone network based on Linux). He introduced me to a USA Linux Users Group called the USALUG. A friend there got me interested in Debian and some of it’s derivatives, and for me, the rest is history.

To this day I find Slackware to be pretty efficient, but I prefer Debian style packaging, so I use Debian-based distributions primarily, including both systemd and non systemd variants.

Back to telemetry and information compromise, in all of my years of using on line technology, purchasing products online and using computers, I’ve only been intruded upon twice, neither of which affected my long term safety. The first was my own local grocery store that got compromised; I changed my credit cards, etc. The second was a foreign scam that ALMOST caught me; I smelled a RAT, contacted a friend of mine at the local police department, gave them the information, and they cooperated with federal and international parties and eventually caught the specific perpetrators. In neither case did I personally suffer financial loss.

I am not afraid of my browsing or buying habits being challenged, other than the possibility of tracking my travel; however, now that I live in a well-protected senior living community, I needn’t be afraid of that either; the likelihood of personal property being stolen or compromised is minimal.

I share this long, drawn out story, including the stuff about Windows, Slackware, Debian, and Linux because I’ve used this stuff as long as most people here and longer than 99% of the world’s population. I purchased 100% of my holiday presents online, back before we had today’s security measures in place and whether someone knows a lot about me or not, I’ve not been physically or financially harmed by any of it, though a few have attempted to harm me; the only ones who succeeded in causing me financial harm were people I misjudged, not someone who took anything over the Internet from me.

Can telemetry data be used? Yeah, even the early founders discussed this. Java, with all of its capabilities, was also examined for trade-offs between effectively networking and connecting data versus opening potential holes. IBM, out of the oldest computing companies, once had the most secure systems because they were the LEAST open – their systems and networks did NOT connect to the world wide Internet until well after Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux systems (plus Digital Equipment Corporation, with their DECnet, before the TCP/IP Internet effectively wiped them out).

Data is available. It CAN be captured, but it’s not particularly easy to grab, and it’s harder to specifically identify to a particular user. The bad guys go after big hauls, usually of easy, “low hanging fruit” with poor security, or with payloads that make hard work yield millions, even billions, for a successful “heist”. Someone COULD potentially find, get, steal, “whatever” something from me. The effort to do it would almost certainly cost FAR MORE than the amount they could possibly gain from attempting to acquire any of my assets; they’re non-zero, but they’re not that much! Most of us are probably in a similar place; why worry? The bad guys can get much more, both in intelligence, information, and financial assets by looking elsewhere!

--
Brian Masinick

[Member PPC]

Like stated above, any machine can be used as a “daily driver” depending on what you want to do…
For me, almost 100% of what I need to do can be done on a 32bits laptop with 1 gig of RAM although it’s not my daily driver.
Google E-mail and web calendars can be managed from Thunderbird- but that application uses a lot of RAM.
I can do editions using google docs or MS Office 365 free accounts- but not as smoothy as working with LibreOffice.
For modern web apps I would advise using at least over 1 gig of RAM and, ideally, at least a dual core.- using those specs, at least for now you can use probably any web app in existence- which is the single good out come from every single servince being “transformed” into a web app- you can run video streaming services, music streaming services, video game “remote play” services- like Google Stadia or the equivalent Microsoft service, Instant messengers, Video Chat services, Office applications (like google doc or MS on-line Office), or now, even Ms Windows itself (if you want to pay a small fortune for it) inside a web browser… Basically once Adobe’s products make the move to web apps, for the normal user there won’t be much difference if the OS is Windows, Linux or whatever.
In my case, for office work, and work with on-line pdf’s, almost any single computer that is able to run Firefox esr and LibreOffice will do for me.

P.

[Member ModdIt]

xecure is right but it is not that simple.
Maybe the LTS version for antiX is compiled with SSE 2 Support. If I am not mistaken Stevo from MX does the builds.
Probably still a build flag available for older machines.

What Mozilla says.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported

If Firefox is already installed on your computer, you can continue using it but you will not receive updates beyond version 52. If you download Firefox version 53 or above and try to run it, you will see the message in stderr, This browser version requires a processor with the SSE2 instruction set extension. You may be able to obtain a version that does not require SSE2 from your Linux distribution.

Like many programs, newer versions of Firefox require a processor that supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) for better performance. We recommend a computer with a Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2 to use the latest version of Firefox, which has more features, stability and security.

Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) will continue to work with older processors but will not receive updates beyond ESR version 52. Firefox ESR version 60, released May 9, 2018, is not supported.

The processor requirements of Firefox as distributed by Linux distributions may differ from the processor requirements of Firefox as distributed by Mozilla, so you may be able to obtain an up-to-date version of Firefox that does not require SSE2 from your Linux distribution.

CPU support

SSE2 is an extension of the IA-32 architecture, based on the x86 instruction set. Therefore, only x86 processors can include SSE2. The AMD64 architecture supports the IA-32 as a compatibility mode and includes the SSE2 in its specification.[1][2] It also doubles the number of XMM registers allowing for better performance. SSE2 is also a requirement for installing Windows 8 (and later) or Microsoft Office 2013 (and later) “to enhance the reliability of third-party apps and drivers running in Windows 8”.[3]

The following IA-32 CPUs support SSE2:

Intel NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron, Pentium D, Celeron D)
Intel Pentium M and Celeron M
Intel Atom
Transmeta Efficeon
VIA C7

The following IA-32 CPUs were released after SSE2 was developed, but did not implement it:

AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64, such as Athlon XP
VIA C3
Transmeta Crusoe
Intel Quark

[Member foringmar]

1) That I dont understand. How do I get that?
2) The modem is connected via USB
3) This is a long one. Here:
[ 95.052468] option 2-1.3:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 95.052552] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 95.052573] option 2-1.3:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 95.052646] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 95.074262] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3: cdc-wdm0: USB WDM device
[ 95.074677] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: register ‘qmi_wwan’ at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device, 22:49:0c:b2:6f:88
[ 95.074754] usbcore: registered new interface driver qmi_wwan
[ 95.363109] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 95.363266] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI TF CARD Storage PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 95.363832] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 95.367653] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr2] scsi-1 drive
[ 95.367806] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2
[ 95.367889] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[ 95.368153] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 106.122010] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 106.123045] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 284.966376] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 284.966681] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 284.966717] option 2-1.3:1.0: device disconnected
[ 284.967040] option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
[ 284.967074] option 2-1.3:1.1: device disconnected
[ 284.967454] option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
[ 284.967493] option 2-1.3:1.2: device disconnected
[ 284.967601] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: unregister ‘qmi_wwan’ usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device
[ 291.015231] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 291.100090] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=151a
[ 291.100093] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 291.100096] usb 2-1.3: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[ 291.100098] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies
[ 291.222125] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 291.222292] scsi host8: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0
[ 291.222541] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.1: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 291.222691] scsi host9: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.1
[ 291.896498] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 295.486564] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 295.571177] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=151e
[ 295.571182] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=4, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
[ 295.571185] usb 2-1.3: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[ 295.571187] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies
[ 295.693359] option 2-1.3:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.693589] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 295.693782] option 2-1.3:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.694022] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 295.694165] option 2-1.3:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 295.694356] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 295.696325] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3: cdc-wdm0: USB WDM device
[ 295.696869] qmi_wwan 2-1.3:1.3 wwan0: register ‘qmi_wwan’ at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, WWAN/QMI device, 2e:a5:67:03:af:6e
[ 295.697168] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.5: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 295.697953] scsi host8: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.5
[ 295.698214] usb-storage 2-1.3:1.6: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 295.698345] scsi host9: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.6
[ 296.744321] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI TF CARD Storage PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 296.744458] scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 296.744851] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 296.750968] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 296.751051] sr 8:0:0:0: [sr3] scsi-1 drive
[ 296.751328] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr3
[ 296.751492] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[ 307.473403] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 307.474402] ISOFS: changing to secondary root

I have tried modem manager, which works on other distributions, like q4os. It does find the modem on Antix. First it ask for PIN. Thats normal,
Then it says “modem must be enabled to connect to internet. Please enable modem”. Clicking on “Enable” does absolutely nothing.

Ingmar

This is my first time with antiX so please bear with me. I have been using Linux since the nineties and have some experience with installations but I’m no expert.
I feel I’m reasonably comfortable with most Ubuntu like distros.
I noticed when installing antiX that the check disk program runs and all is well but when the actual install procedure takes place there is an error reporting about a failing disk but if I simply click to continue everything installs fine. This may be due to the software not recognising the memory chip used as a drive on this machine.
I have installed the system on a very under-powered HP Stream 11 hoping that it will allow it to run half-decently. It still doesn’t!!! It has 2GB RAM and a meagre 32GB storage (trying not to laugh). This small laptop/Netbook is really quite pathetic and how on Earth HP thought anyone could use such a machine productively with Windows 10 installed I’ll never know. I can only think that whomsoever designed this unit is long gone from HP.
I bought it off a guy on eBay who sold it because a Microsoft update screwed things up for him and he couldn’t fix it.

So far everything works that I’ve tried if just a bit slow.
I am writing this today on this HP installed with antiX. I’ll see how it goes but so far it’s no better than the likes of LUbuntu BUT I’m not saying it’s bad. There’s certainly lots to explore with all the pre-written scripts.
So the fun begins…
I must have a go installing the same system on a more powerful machine for comparison.

[Member molotoov]

it is brand new installation just installed chrome, microsoft edge and VScode,
and i solved the problem right now by downgrading the package using this command
sudo apt install libc6=2.31-13

[Member Robin]

Good morning @stevesr0

stevesr0 wrote:

but in that OS, the maximum security is WPA and I am using WPA2 on my wireless access point.

Even if we are a true antiX bord here 🙂 you’ll get some advice for Windows also, so you might check out whether your device is operating fine still:
You must have missed some Windows updates, since WinXP connects fine to WPA2 WLANs from SP2 onwards. I have even had run this WPA2 on Windows2000prof., but for 2000 you’ll depend on the drivers your device manufacturer provides, while WinXP was updated to WPA2 by Microsoft itself. So just install the correct patch from their site and you should be able to connect your WPA2 WLAN from within WinXP for testing.

No download available anymore? Well, another lesson in terms of what it does actually mean to rely on proprietary software…

You may check wayback machine to access the driver update needed for your machine, but I believe Microsoft will let you stand in the rain with your system nowadays, since they keep you from updating simply by having stopped their so called “genuine test” facility. The correct file name to search for you’ll learn from the download description at archive.org.

Besides, do I recollect correctly, wasn’t there a kind of wrapper available, making it possible to use true windows driver files within linux for WLAN access? In this case you simply need to copy the drivers from within your Windows XP, once you’ve managed to make it run on WPA2, to antiX and mount them using this wrapper. I’m quite sure I’ve used this ugly technique successfully many years ago myself on a machine running Sidux.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member Robin]

You are simply riding the wrong horse: You want DNS, not NetBIOS or WINS

ahoppin wrote:

Nothing at all about any Netbios names anywhere

This is expectable, since only Windows uses this windows specific protocol. NetBIOS is something you won’t want to set up as your default name resolution method in mixed style networking (MacOS, Linux and Windows machines present in the same network). NetBIOS is something you can use in “windows-only” networking, as long as no other client shows up. From the moment you deal with different OS in a network, use simply DNS instead. The windows machines can handle this properly.

Probably your Ms. Linksys is a lady of doubtful reputation (as you yourself denoted: she is a MS, standing here not for Miss, but for Microsoft obviously). She can possibly only handle “windows-only” networking. Some of the linksys are known to suffer from that strategic business decision of the router manufacturer, to design it windows-exclusively. Neither a WINS server nor a NetBIOS master browser are suitable in mixed networking.
So you possibly won’t get happy with this device. If this turns out to be true for your device you’ll have to run an additional true DNS 24/7 somewhere in your network. For a first reading: Why some routers dont include dns.

There is nothing antiX (or any other linux) could change on this situation. If there is actually no local DNS server present in your LAN, antiX can’t guess the networking host names of your devices and the local domain name, since there are none. There are only NetBIOS names for windows-exclusively networking. Seems you are locked in within windows world by your router.

ahoppin wrote:

Do I need to do anything else to make the Linksys the DNS server?

Use a device not designed “Windows-exclusively”, or replace its firmware by a version capable of handling universal local DNS, if the manufacturer provides this for your device. Then all your problems caused by missing name resolution in your network will vanish as if by magic.

As a workaround you could edit the hosts files on all your devices (yes, also windows knows about this file), so they contain all the (then mandatory static) IPs correlated to the device names present in your network. Try “man hosts” in a console window for further reading.
You’ll find the hosts file in Windows at:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
And on antiX and any Linux as well as on any MacOS at:
/etc/hosts
You can edit these hosts files using a simple text editor. But be aware, this is a dirty old-school workaround only for a non functional default networking setup in your LAN. On a correct router/server side setup you won’t even need to use static IP, since your router should know about a feature assigning the same IP always to a specific networking device when using DHCP.
Further reading: wikipedia entry on hosts file

To put it in a nutshell: You need host names and a local domain name, not Windows NetBIOS names and a Windows WORKGROUP, and also you need to have a true DNS running. Only after these basics are met in your LAN you may start to set up SAMBA for emulating the Windows specific protocols on Linux (or MacOS) machines in a second step.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member Robin]

Hello all, I’ll be back on this task this evening. Sorry for the delay in answering, first I had to complete the writing of script code for automatic translation of anitX desktop files to the languages we cover, which have no real translators by now, and also I had to check for the unplugdrive woes of antiX 21 version which was heavily modified last minute from 0.91 to 0.93. Xecure did a great job in acceleration of processing performed by unplugdrive, but there was no time left for testing it as extensively as I did while I have written the 0.91 version, on all kinds of devices before it went into the ISO. So we face now the absurd situation we have a well tested 0.91 (slow and sudo) version in the archives, and a mostly untested 0.93 (fast sudo+nonsudo) version in antiX 21 🙂
But back to my antiX Live USB struggles.

May be I still not reached at the bottom of reasons for syslinux not seeing the existing config files at boot time. I copied the files from within true Win2000 to the stick, which should write the correct 8.3 filenames. But still syslinux won’t see the config files.

My next approach was to copy the complete content of ../boot/syslinux subfolder to the root of the USB stick, even if they write in their manual syslinux would check the ../boot/syslinux and ../syslinux folder BEFORE checking the root directory for the config. Surprise: Now syslinux comes up all of a sudden with the antiX 21 boot screen. What the heck? I really don’t see the logical reasoning behind this, since the original config of antiX 17.4.1 was also located in the very subfolder, not in the root. So first (partly) success: I can boot the stick on this PC now and I saw the antiX 21 boot screen the first time. The localised F1 help looks great, @anticapitalista you did a great job with allowing the help menu to be localised now. This makes antiX usable to many more people all over the world. Many thanks for what you do for all of us!

OK, but now back to the LiveUSB. Again the strange “file/folder not found” message hit me, this time /antiX/vmlinuz file is not found while it is actually present in this folder. Slowly but surely I’m fed up to the back teeth by this stupid message. The files ARE present in the directories.

Btw: Doesn’t mean syslinux “sees” the files when they sit in USB root, that all the filenames fine, and merely all new folders are “invisible”?

Just an idea… Since this is a MS-DOS style file system, does syslinux possibly expect the slashes to be written the other way around in its config file now for some strange reason? I mean \ instead of / ? But why does all this work flawlessly in the original 17.4.1 stick then, trouble starting the minute a folder is created new? It must be somehow interdepend on the way how the folder and file names are written to the file system. I have not tried to do this on true old school MS-DOS instead of antiX or Win2000, maybe this would make a difference. Once we have understood WHAT exactly prevents syslinux from seeing the folders at boot time, we can try to treat it while creating the stick from within antiX…

@seaken64 Many thanks for your warnings. But I’m well secured, there is a 1:1 backup hdd, function tested and ready to plug, and in case something unexpected happens to the CAD station, it is a task of 10 minutes max only to make it run again exactly as before. Just switch the cables within the PC case from the hdd in the one slot to the spare hdd in the other slot. Moreover all local user data is stored on external USB drives, internal hdd containing the pure OS and CAD system only. I won’t install antiX on this PC, it is to be run from persistent Live USB stick exclusively, and antiX is meant for allowing external data exchange on this machine, while I wouldn’t never ever let it connect to network or internet when running it on its outdated Windows, Microsoft not providing any security updates anymore and not being able to offer a functioning replacement version of their OS running on this hardware.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member sybok]

Hi and thank you for your interest.

I use ‘slim’ (version in item no. 2) of my 1st post) and IceWM or Minimal-JWM are accessible without problems.
Do you believe that switch to ‘slimski’ may solve the issue?

Seems that every failed attempt to login to fluxbox does some reset of ‘~/.fluxbox/startup’ (disable execution).

Output of ‘inxi -Fxr’:

Repos:
  Packages: 2153 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/mxlinux-packages/antix/testing testing nosystemd main nonfree
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ testing-security/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main # Version 1.4.00.4855 fucked up, go to previous older!
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 132 Uptime: 9h 4m Memory: 3.35 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (36.2%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.12 
  inxi: 3.3.06

I hope that the inclusion of MS Teams repository does not lead to a Franken-antiX.

PS: Need to leave and will be back in an hour or two.

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[Member marcelocripe]

BobC, I perform these same steps you described in the installations I do and include:

13. Add the Trash explained by PPC without the need for the trash-cli package in zzzFM. Include the Trashcan.desktop file in the /usr/share/applications folder and apply the $ sudo desktop-menu –write-out-global command for the icon to be displayed in the menu.

14. Add the Favorites in zzzFM: Home Folder, Documents, Downloads, Applications and the Recycle Bin. If the end user wants the Pictures folder, I teach to include this folder or any other folder in the Favorites.

15. Teach how to use Microsoft programs through the web browser and it is still possible to use the microsoft-office-online.desktop file created by PPC.

16. Teach how to access USB devices (pendrive and smartphone) and CD/DVD through zzzFM, as well as teach how to unmount these devices.

17. Make available the manual created by Spartak77 and the PPC.

18. The Tint2 bar created and configured by PPC is ideal for users who are used to the Windows 10 bar and know how to use these features, or teach how to use the Tint2 bar.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

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BobC, eu realizo estas mesmas etapas que você descreveu nas instalações que eu faço e incluo:

13. Adicionar a Lixeira explicada pelo PPC sem a necessidade do pacote trash-cli no zzzFM. Incluir o arquivo lixeira.desktop na pasta /usr/share/applications e aplicar o comando $ sudo desktop-menu –write-out-global para o ícone ser exibido no menu.

14. Adicionar os Favoritos no zzzFM: Pasta Pessoal, Documentos, Downloads, Aplicativos e a Lixeira. Se o usuário final quiser a pasta Imagens, eu ensinar a incluir esta pasta ou qualquer outra nos Favoritos.

15. Ensinar a utilizar os programas da Microsoft através do navegador de internet e ainda é possível utilizar o arquivo microsoft-office-online.desktop criado pelo PPC.

16. Ensinar a acessar os dispositivos USB (pendrive e smartphone) e CD/DVD através do zzzFM, bem como ensinar a desmontar estes dispositivos.

17. Disponibilizar o manual criado pelo Spartak77 e pelo PPC.

18. A barra do Tint2 criado e configurado pelo PPC é ideal para os usuários que estão acostumados com a barra do Windows 10 e que sabem utilizar estes recursos, ou ensinar a utilizar a barra do Tint2.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

ModdIt wrote:

Look at the Chromebook though.

Google pit it in the schools and created a hit, enough so that Microsoft has tried multiple times to break back in with limited success.

Google, gave away many thousands of devices here in Germany, ever thought why, Total controll, google is a daugter of alphabet which
was a CIA venture. The kids using those devices have no privacy wghatsoever, same goes for there teachers.

During my time as a parents rep I had to fight against introduction of ipads, the teachers were offered a mac book pro plus a free ipad
every year for pushing through i pad classes.

google operation was more of a secret but involved a lot of invitations to teachers and a huge number of incentives. Google and Apple should
be barred from educational institutions in EU. They are part of the US ambition for total world domination..

You are probably right about all of this. When I came out of college, IBM was the dominant company and even Microsoft had to work hard to get anywhere. They got a big break when IBM came to both Intel and Microsoft seeking to quickly create a personal computer under the IBM label.

To this day, large datacenter operations, at least in large American companies still have a lot of legacy IBM hardware. Everything else varies, depending on which vendors have contractual agreements. To me, that’s been a good thing because there is more than one source for nearly everything. It gives businesses more leverage to influence the vendors.

It’s the same with individual customers, just more complicated to organize. If customers move to a different vendor in large numbers, that attracts the desired attention; I guarantee it. So if Google dominates and they are not responsive to user input, a massive change to antiX Computer Corporation (fictitious) would get attention!

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Brian Masinick

[Member Wallon]

Dear PPC,

You have started an exciting thread.
If you go to “statcounter” you will see that Windows is only 32.44% today on 11 November 2021.
Microsoft has completely missed its target. Android has taken first place.
This means that we are also in a big hardware change.
The ARM CPU is much more used than the Intel and AMD CPUs with x86.
I think that in 5 years, you will find many more computers without NVIDIA or AMD graphics cards that will run on an ARM CPU like for example the MacBook (M1 Pro and M1 Max chips). Apple has abandoned Intel and AMD!
So we will have to convert antiX to a new language adapted to ARM chips! Possible or not?
This is the biggest revolution since the birth of the “personal computer” invented by IBM.
Since you are talking about young graduates, this week I asked some 25 year old people if they knew about IBM. They had never heard of IBM. I really got old explaining what this company had invented and created for computer hardware, software and servers.

Best regards,
Wallon

[Member PPC]

@Dave- would exo-preferred-applications, available in the exo-utils package be useful, for setting a system wide preference for browser, e-mail client, terminal and file manager?

I can try make a similar to that app, in yad, to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list, at least for browser and e-mail client… I haven’t really checked out how that config file works…

Edit1:
would this work, for choosing an internet browser?

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Edit2:

If the update-alternatives works, a command to set seamonkey directly would be something like this (adjust according to the path to seamonkey’s binnary):

sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /opt/seamonkey/seamonkey

-This seems to work. I performed that change, to be on the safe side, I logged out and back in. I created a text file with a web address example:
https://www.antixforum.com/
and opened that text file with nano text editor. When I right clicked the link and selected to open it in the browser, the browser I selected using update-alternatives came up.
One exception is Mozilla Thunderbird, you have to search on-line how to manually configure the browser that is used when you click a link inside Thunderbird. By default it always uses Firefox, even when it complains that’s not the default browser (hum… it smells like something Microsoft would try to pull on users…)

P.

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