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Just opening this thread to say that antix works great on these 2 year old 100$ mini pc boxes, I have a 2 gb ram , 32gb disk version.
Way faster than lubuntu , I can even play games such Mount and Blade warband at medium-high settings..
All you have to do, is to install the 64 bit version after manually partionining (100mb fat32 boot, 2 Giga swap) a recent kernel (currently i have 5.6) , pulseaudio for the audio card to work, and do the same trick as for debian ubuntu for the wifi to work: download this link then take that file and copy it to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt.Here are the specs for the Hewlett-Packard 5000 series desktop that I mentioned when I wrote about the three old systems that I recently acquired. This one I installed with antiX; the Lenovo Thinkpad X201 I installed with MX Linux 19.2 and the other laptop I installed with EXLinux. I like the way that antiX and MX Linux work better than the others, but with these old boxes I wanted to try a few other distros. On my primary Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop I have two instances of antiX, one with runit and the second was a traditional Base install with my own selection of software. MX Linux was a standard installation, and I also have an instance of Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Zenwalk (Slackware CURRENT), and Mageia.
With all of those distros I still like the antiX family of Debian derivatives best.
Hewlett-Packard 5000 series desktop:
inxi CPU: Dual Core AMD Athlon II X2 255 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 800/800/3100 MHz Kernel: 5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 Up: 44m Mem: 889.6/3682.0 MiB (24.2%) Storage: 698.64 GiB (0.9% used) Procs: 115 Shell: bash 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36 masinick@antix-Brian:~ $ inxi -Fxz System: Host: antix-Brian Kernel: 5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6 Distro: antiX-19.1_x64-base Marielle Franco 23 December 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: s5747c v: N/A serial: <filter> Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2A6C v: 5.00 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.01 date: 09/29/2010 CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon II X2 255 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K10 rev: 3 L2 cache: 2048 KiB flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 12456 Speed: 1900 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1900 2: 800 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A bus ID: 00:0d.0 Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: vesa resolution: 1024x768~N/A OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:05.0 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp Network: Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: e480 bus ID: 00:07.0 IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: Lite-On driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 6.42 GiB (0.9%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3750528AS size: 698.64 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 684.67 GiB used: 6.42 GiB (0.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 23.1 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 115 Uptime: 44m Memory: 3.60 GiB used: 893.1 MiB (24.3%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36 masinick@antix-Brian:~- This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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Hello – just getting started here.
I have a lot of experience with bigger systems but not a lot with PC hardware. I was a Windows user with some Unix but only as a user.I have an old Dell Latitude C540 I am trying make useful. 348MB Mem and a 20 GB disk. No Wi-Fi and a single USB-1 port
Bios boot sequence is Floppy, CD, then HD (USB is not an option on the boot list)
I set up two partitions 18GB primary and a 2GB for swap. I thought there was a small partition at the low end but it is gone now.I have a antiX 19.2.1 386-base LiveCD working and trying installs to hard disk from there but first install attempt failed at the GRUB install
I told install to use all of the disk.
I restarted the system from the CD and used the disk partition to set the boot flag on the primary and asked for an install of grub on the main partition.
– the install runs to the end but when I remove the CD and try to boot I end up with a blank screen and no disk activity.
I am missing something related to the MBR – just have no clue what it might be 🙂****
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I have been using Firefox 77 which I have used for several weeks with no problems.
Since yesterday, when I start FF 77, my laptop becomes frozen so I have to use the off button.
I am using AntiX 17
I tried removing FF and reinstalled, but it did not help.Below is inxi -F:
$ inxi -F System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.221-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17_386-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 Machine: Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D610 v: N/A serial: <root required> Mobo: Dell model: 0D4571 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A06 date: 10/02/2005 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.3 Wh condition: 52.5/53.3 Wh (99%) CPU: Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB Speed: 1867 MHz min/max: 800/1867 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1867 Graphics: Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1024x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.221-antix.1-486-smp Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:14:22:d8:99:f8 Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:16:6f:46:d6:28 Drives: Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 13.20 GiB (35.4%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MP0402H size: 37.26 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 34.43 GiB used: 13.20 GiB (38.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3842 Info: Processes: 136 Uptime: 14m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 494.3 MiB (24.6%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 user@antix1:~ $- This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by rokytnji.
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Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)