antiX-19-b3-full and base versions (64 and 32 bit) available

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Our third beta build of the upcoming antiX-19 release, based on Debian Buster and systemd-free.

Main changes since beta2.

* 4.9.189 ‘swapgs mitigations’ patched kernel
* qpdfview replaces evince
* A bit more polish added
* Various bugfixes.

Known issues (reported):

* sisimedia driver for SiS video cards do not work
* connman does not connect to sdio bluetooth controller (rtl8723bs) on Intel Compute Stick STCK1A8LFC
* The presence of /etc/asound.conf causes repeated second long gaps in HDMI sound.

Hopefully, users will be able to upgrade from this beta to full.

For a full list of what is on antiX-19, see this post.

antix-19-b1-full-64-and-32-bit-available

Get files from OSDN: antiX-19-beta3

• This topic was modified 2 months ago by anticapitalista.
• This topic was modified 2 months ago by anticapitalista.
• This topic was modified 2 months ago by anticapitalista.

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

[Member ile]

Hello anticapitalista
Marielle Franco 19.b3_64-full the download was flyin’! md5sum check good. b3. perception is that it is quicker to startup; to run; to install.

live-usb-maker to usb2. First boot is into space-fluxbox. conky not On by default.
disable automount. open antiX Linux Installer- that looks like a title change on the gui. running space-fluxbox when open the installer from fluxbox menu the desktop icons disappear. Does that mean spacefm turned off? -Yes. ps_mem.py does not list spacefm, with installer running checked this. It is at 132.5MiB. No spacefm is on the list. refresh of conky still reports space-fluxbox.
Install to usb2-32G entire device. Success. heremfb3. Installer completed And spacefm popped back On. ps_mem.py @ 184.1MiB with spacefm listed.

reboot. to installed system. Default rox-icewm. conky On by default.
conky shows 181M. ps_mem.py shows 160.1MiB.
Adjust the dual displays. Switch to space-fluxbox. The rox panel toggle is visible. ps_mem.py shows 156.6MiB.

inxi shows the latest kernel! great stuff. Thanks.

System:
  Host: 8440p Kernel: 4.9.189-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19.b3_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 August 2019

connman hookup is quick! Posting this from b3New install. off to have a look into b3.

edit: now look at that…: running space-fluxbox inxi reports IceWM. env-info reports space-fluxbox.
Extra inxi report does this:Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 wm: Fluxbox 1.3.5

.antiX 19-Stable. device Key Tag ID image:

[Member entropyfoe]

Downloaded the 64 bit full, md5 was good, so burned to usb with the MX USB Creator tool.
Boots fast. Everything worked live, including sound after using the sound card chooser.

Anyway, it was a 5 minute install.
Booted fine and started the usual configuration, 165 packages mostly dependancies and libraries etc,
Added some more kernels.

So I rebooted into the 5.2.8….

Host: Ryzen Kernel: 5.2.8-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19.b3_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 August 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 4024 
  date: 09/07/2018 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  Speed: 2051 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1895 2: 1885 
  3: 1880 4: 1877 5: 1888 6: 1895 7: 1889 8: 1885 9: 1887 10: 1891 11: 1886 
  12: 1893 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa

All seems to be working with this very recent kernel and buster. I am impressed.

Graphics are OK under the nouveau, but the card runs 5-10 degrees hotter.
So, if I run the NVIDIA installer, will it build against this 5.2.8 kernel?

Should I try it?

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by entropyfoe.
• This reply was modified 2 months ago by entropyfoe.

Asus Prime 370X-Pro
AMD Ryzen 1600X (6 cores @ 3.6 GHz)
16 Gig DDR4 3200 (G Skill)
Nvidia -MSI GeForce GT 710 fanless
Samsung 960 NVMe SSD nvme0n1 P1,P2, and P3=MX-18, P4=antiX-19 beta
2TB WD sda1= data
on-board ethernet &and sound

[Member ile]

Hello anticapitalista
19.b3 on space-fluxbox on 1440X900.
using fluxbox menu to bring up Applications >antiX >Command Line Control Centre
the contents of the window seemed clipped on the right side.
widened the window screen. the window contents has five instead of started with two of the menus. Without changing the size it has two menu. Change window size geometry now five Main Menu. two of the five Main Menu are interacting with keyboard.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

be

ile wrote:

Hello anticapitalista
Marielle Franco 19.b3_64-full the download was flyin’! md5sum check good. b3. perception is that it is quicker to startup; to run; to install.

live-usb-maker to usb2. First boot is into space-fluxbox. conky not On by default.
disable automount. open antiX Linux Installer- that looks like a title change on the gui. running space-fluxbox when open the installer from fluxbox menu the desktop icons disappear. Does that mean spacefm turned off? -Yes. ps_mem.py does not list spacefm, with installer running checked this. It is at 132.5MiB. No spacefm is on the list. refresh of conky still reports space-fluxbox.
Install to usb2-32G entire device. Success. heremfb3. Installer completed And spacefm popped back On. ps_mem.py @ 184.1MiB with spacefm listed.

reboot. to installed system. Default rox-icewm. conky On by default.
conky shows 181M. ps_mem.py shows 160.1MiB.
Adjust the dual displays. Switch to space-fluxbox. The rox panel toggle is visible. ps_mem.py shows 156.6MiB.

inxi shows the latest kernel! great stuff. Thanks.

System:
  Host: 8440p Kernel: 4.9.189-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19.b3_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 August 2019

connman hookup is quick! Posting this from b3New install. off to have a look into b3.

edit: now look at that…: running space-fluxbox inxi reports IceWM. env-info reports space-fluxbox.
Extra inxi report does this:Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 wm: Fluxbox 1.3.5

.antiX 19-Stable. device Key Tag ID image:

yes, to prevent automounting, its necessary to kill the spacefm desktop while the instlaler is running. Its a little heavy handed, and maybe I can refine it a little, but it was the solution I knew would work.

[Member ile]

19.b3_x64-full / space-fluxbox
runaway process. bin/bash /usr/local/bin/antix-cli-cc
Away from pc for an hour. Nothing open. Sat down to look. conky showed cpu at 29%. htop showed that process at 14.6%. Sent sigstop. cpu dropped to 1%.
Uptime is at 9h 46m
will reboot Now.

[Member littleloyal]

Wow Excited about what you all are doing. Has anyone thought of doing this for an educational system. I am considering this but want to see if anyone else has done or interested. I know I must wait till release but want to test things now. I will teach our school first Linux class. Thinking of starting with the kids learning to build a custom antiX for education. Any thoughts suggestions are welcome. (these are middle school kids, my son has a head start – dont know why???) Thanks to the AntiX team as well as those helping MX linux (what I used for school computers)

[Anonymous]

antiX-19-b3-full 64-bit

1. Changing Grub background doesn’t work.
Neither from the Control Centre, nor by adding it manually in /etc/default/grub (incl. update-grub).
See screenshots 0 & 1. It doesn’t even give back the original preinstalled image, but only the default.

2. You shouldn’t be using “Timeshift” icon for “Snapshot”. That’s confusing.
See screenshot 2.

3. Problems with copying to VBox shared folder.
Files get copied though, but the error shouldn’t be there if you’re providing extensions OOTB.
See screenshots 3 & 4.

4. New antiX Start Menu button looks … hmmm … little bit “suboptimal”.
See last screenshot.

[Anonymous]

I’d like to suggest removing all JVM preinstalled themes, except for:

1. clearlooks
2. gold
3. pastel

Some of the others could be repaired, most are simply junk.
Nicer said: The crime against the humanity.

Here only some highlights:
See screenshots 0, 1, 2.

I’ll not analyze and explain one by one …

[Anonymous]

Attached are 2 JWM themes that’ll much better fit the look and feel of antiX 19.

[Member entropyfoe]

So no luck with the nvidia installer from the control center.

Host: Ryzen Kernel: 5.2.8-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19.b3_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 August 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 4024 
  date: 09/07/2018 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  Speed: 2051 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1895 2: 1885 
  3: 1880 4: 1877 5: 1888 6: 1895 7: 1889 8: 1885 9: 1887 10: 1891 11: 1886 
  12: 1893 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa

All seems to be working with this very recent kernel and buster. I am impressed.

Graphics are OK under the nouveau, but the card runs 5-10 degrees hotter.
So, if I run the NVIDIA installer, will it build against this 5.2.8 kernel?

I ran the nvidia installer in the control center and got a failure. I tried the backports option, but under the 5.2.8 kernel, there was a “dependency problem, errors were encountered while processing nvidia-persistenced, nvidia-kernek-dkms, and nvidia driver. FAIL Failed startpar: service(s) returned failure nvidia-persistance”

BTW it tried to install the 418.74-1 driver.

So, I reinstalled, updated grub in my MX-18.3, and am now back in the beta3 with the default kernel 4.9.189.

So for now, no nvidia. Should I try under a different kernel?

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by entropyfoe.
• This reply was modified 2 months ago by entropyfoe.

Asus Prime 370X-Pro
AMD Ryzen 1600X (6 cores @ 3.6 GHz)
16 Gig DDR4 3200 (G Skill)
Nvidia -MSI GeForce GT 710 fanless
Samsung 960 NVMe SSD nvme0n1 P1,P2, and P3=MX-18, P4=antiX-19 beta
2TB WD sda1= data
on-board ethernet &and sound

[Member Xaver]

@ noClue
My favorite jwm theme is coffee_cream. It is pleasant to read, not dark and low on blue light – very friendly to the eyes.
I have tested it on antiX-19-b3 32 bit in VirtualBox. Everything seems to work fine.

What, do you think, needs to be repaired on it?

[Member christophe]

I’m loving beta 3.
I hope you don’t get rid of JWM’s black theme – it’s the only one I use.
I noticed that synaptic is gone. But I rarely use it anymore, so I don’t mind.
I’m very excited on how it’s coming together!
Thank you so much!

[Member entropyfoe]

christophe

synaptic is still there. It is in the control center under system.

OK, my reinstallation using the stock 4.9.189 works after the nvidia installation. (418.74).

So, I tried adding the 4.19 kernel with the package installer, though it seems to work, upon reboot, it is not there ?!?!?!

Asus Prime 370X-Pro
AMD Ryzen 1600X (6 cores @ 3.6 GHz)
16 Gig DDR4 3200 (G Skill)
Nvidia -MSI GeForce GT 710 fanless
Samsung 960 NVMe SSD nvme0n1 P1,P2, and P3=MX-18, P4=antiX-19 beta
2TB WD sda1= data
on-board ethernet &and sound

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

@entropyfoe – I’m not too surprised that nvidia fails to build on the 5.2.8 kernel.
Have you tried with the sgfxi script?

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