antiX-21 (Grup Yorum) released

[Member rek769]

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Trying to upgrade from beta2 (21) to final release while saving my live changes did not work for me in the way I had hoped. I tried making a new live usb of the final version and then copied my old rootfs and homefs files from the beta usb to the final version usb. While the home directory contents were preserved, the new usb would not load the rootfs persistence files. It threw an error message about not being able to mount the root persistence file. So, I generated a list of all files I installed via apt on the beta usb and used that to re-install on the final version which I had installed on my hard drive. Since my home directory changes had been preserved, I only had to make a few minor changes once all my packages were installed in the final version. Happy to provide details if anyone is interested.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I am VERY HAPPY to report that I have my Thinkpad X201 back; I had loaned it to my son for a couple of months until he could obtain appropriate equipment for completing his education.

While he had it, he picked up an SSD and put it in here (temporarily) and installed Windows 10 or 11 on it and this box was QUICK with the faster drive.
He put that on another system, but I may decide to put one of them in here and see if it’ll work with antiX on this hardware.

Anyway, since my newest hardware is still struggling to run antiX and MX in default forms (must require the newer “Advanced Hardware Support), a.k.a. AHS; that does work with an older AVL/MXE 19, updated, upgraded to “21” by changing repos to “Bullseye”.

Meanwhile, my Dell Inspiron 5558 and this Thinkpad X201 work GREAT with either antiX 19, antiX 21 or MX Linux; this particular X201 is now devoted EXCLUSIVELY to antiX 21 with runit and it works GREAT!

Before loaning this system to my son, I had been testing antiX 21 B2 and it worked well; I’m happy to also report that this same machine is even better with the released software and several of the “minor” defects that were still in the last Beta have since been solved in the release as I’ve been able to personally test, both with this hardware and with the Dell Inspiron 5558. Another system where I can still use one of my long time favorite distributions!

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inxi -Fxz
System: Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0
Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 3249CTO v: ThinkPad X201 serial:
Mobo: LENOVO model: 3249CTO serial: BIOS: LENOVO v: 6QET66WW (1.36 ) date: 05/31/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 79.4/84.2 Wh (94.3%) volts: 12.3 min: 10.8 model: Panasonic 42T4696
status: Unknown
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7 M 620 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 cache: L2: 4 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21280
Speed: 1999 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1999 2: 1333 3: 1199 4: 1199
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Lenovo Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:6
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 1820 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1880 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (3.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNS128GG4BAAA-NonFDE size: 119.24 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 110.9 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1965
Info: Processes: 189 Uptime: 2h 17m Memory: 7.6 GiB used: 1.33 GiB (17.6%) Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1
Packages: 1218 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

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Congratulations! I’ll install it on the SSD that arrives tomorrow 🙂 thanks team and all !!!

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I have ANOTHER old laptop; this one is an older HP, circa 2008:

It WORKS, but it’s not fast; those THREE YEARS between the Thinkpad X201 and this model make a HUGE difference and so does the hardware.

I’m not sure that I’d run too many things OTHER than antiX on this box:

inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 
           Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq 2510p Notebook PC v: F.0E serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30C9 v: KBC Version 75.28 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68MSP Ver. F.0E 
           date: 11/04/2008 
Battery:   ID-1: C23D charge: 71.4 Wh (95.7%) condition: 74.6/74.6 Wh (100.0%) volts: 11.9 min: 10.8 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Unknown 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo U7600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 4787 
           Speed: 933 MHz min/max: 800/1200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 933 2: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82566MM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 2060 
           bus-ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network driver: iwl4965 v: in-tree: port: 2120 bus-ID: 10:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 131.84 GiB used: 4.21 GiB (3.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK8009GAH size: 74.53 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 57.3 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 69.85 GiB used: 3.45 GiB (4.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3 GiB used: 288 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 25.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 180 Uptime: 1h 0m Memory: 1.93 GiB used: 1.22 GiB (63.3%) Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           Packages: 1216 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

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That Thinkpad is pretty good; the HP desktop I was running the other day works well with antiX 21 too, so I think I have FOUR pieces of hardware, including the Dell Inspiron 5558 that now have antiX 21 installed. I have the Base runit on at least 3 of ’em; that’s my current favorite.

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Ran antiX 21 on my Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop today. Have both the runit and sysvinit installed in two separate instances.

Both are excellent!

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