antiX-bullseye-beta1 iso files available. 64 bit only

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I’ve just started to use my installed instance of antiX-Bullseye-B1. I copied my personal files (home directory tree) from a previous installation.
Right now I’m running this configuration with EXCELLENT results:

inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antix-bullseye Kernel: 4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.4.0 Distro: antiX-bullseye-b1_x64-full Grup Yorum 10 June 2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A04 date: 08/06/2015 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.9 Wh condition: 33.9/41.4 Wh (82%) model: Samsung SDI DELL 07G07587587 status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19155 
           Speed: 2609 MHz min/max: 500/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2609 2: 2506 3: 2400 4: 2425 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 08:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
           Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 06:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 
           bus ID: 07:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 12.68 GiB (1.4%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 97.87 GiB used: 12.68 GiB (13.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda11 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 7.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 2.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 0 
Info:      Processes: 187 Uptime: 30m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 914.3 MiB (11.5%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.2.1 Shell: bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.0.36 

The only reason for the amount of memory used is that I’m running the Firefox Browser. Being freshly installed, everything works “crisply” on this aging laptop.

I’ll try out some live instances; I don’t anticipate finding any installed issues since a2 also worked very well installed for me.

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I am getting better results with sysvinit with respect to booting up on older computers than with runit for antix-bullseye-b1.

For example, in my old HP 6730b laptop, which has the following graphics info:

Graphics: Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2a42
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: intel resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express (CTG) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.4
direct render: Yes

b1-sysvinit boots up great in normal boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF) for both the 4.9.0-264 and the 5.10.27 kernels. The images are very sharp and crisp.

b1-runit does NOT boot up in normal boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF) for either the 4.9.0-264 nor the 5.10.27 kernels.
b1-runit does boot up in safe video mode boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF xorg=safe) and in failsafe boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF failsafe) for both the 4.9.0-264 and the 5.10.27 kernels. But in both these cases, the images are not very sharp. The edges of the texts and images are very blurry. Not sharp.

It is night and day how much better the b1-sysvinit system looks compared to the b1-runit system in terms of the graphics.

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SysVinit. live-usb.

Nice grub menu (but I miss the syslinux menus). But it works nicely now for bios & uefi (I assume is the point).

With herbstluftwm – antiX-wifi-switch “hangs” while using ceni (see image below). Closing app works to get rid of it. Still does not work after persistence save & reboot.

Using wifi-switcher & choosing connman gives the panel applet that I can’t use – & cannot close – mouse cannot activate anything. Used dmenu to launch xkill to get rid of it.
Immediately re-running connman from control centre (antixcc.sh) works as expected, though.

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christophe wrote:

With herbstluftwm – antiX-wifi-switch “hangs” while using ceni (see image below). Closing app works to get rid of it. Still does not work after persistence save & reboot.

Using wifi-switcher & choosing connman gives the panel applet that I can’t use – & cannot close – mouse cannot activate anything. Used dmenu to launch xkill to get rid of it.

I will edit the script to adjust it to NOT enable the systemtray cmst startup and to also launch cmst in the same way the network-check script does.
I will check what it is doing to ceni for it to get stuck and fix it.

christophe wrote:

Nice grub menu (but I miss the syslinux menus).

They are still there, and appear on Legacy_BIOS boot.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: syslinux menus still there

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Some bugs on latest sysvinit b1:

A. Rox pinboard protests “/usr/share/wallpaper/pylons.png not found”
It seems all rox-WM sessions have the pb_antiX-<WM> configured for a PNG instead of JPG.
<backdrop style="Stretched">/usr/share/wallpaper/pylons.png</backdrop>
But it fixes itself once the session loads. Still, desktop-defaults-rox-antix will need a small update before release (if a jpg is used instead of a PNG, as it is now).

B. Repo manager is again confused. Selecting a different mirror doesn’t change the antix.list bullseye source. It only changes the “/antix/testing” repo, but not the one with “/antix/bullseye”. Small problem until Debian officially release bullseye and debian changes the name from “testing” to “bullseye”.

C. Rox-jwm desktop session. Right click on desktop doesn’t work (doesn’t launch the jwm menu). Works properly in JWM, minimal-jwm, and space-jwm. I suspect I saw this before, but as noody reported I thought it was my computer.

D. Rox-fluxbox. The conky doesn’t load (loads in fluxbox and space-fluxbox). I don’t see it as important bug, but just writing so others can check.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: desktop-session errors

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b1-sysvinit installed bare metal using 5.10.27 kernel on old hp 6730b laptop:

Works great!

I have tested this OS on the usual programs that I use often, and they all work well:

Kodi 19, wine,links2, netsurf, pale moon, seamonkey, smtube, vlc, ytfzf, mpv, mps-youtube, dosbox, pmrp, pulseaudio, pavucontrol

Happy with the performance.

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calciumsodium wrote:

b1-runit does NOT boot up in normal boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF) for either the 4.9.0-264 nor the 5.10.27 kernels.

I just read this part. Does it boot properly when using bootcode?
xorg=intel
I had a similar issue on the previous a1, but didn’t see it happen to me again.

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What has changed in this release compared to the previous (in the sysvinit one)

Removed:
abcde (for encoding of various audio formats from a CD) (It is included in the runit release, so I think this is simply a small error brought by remaking the sysvinit ISO with haste).
codecs-antix (was buggy, codecs can be installed from the package installer)
modemmanager and modem-manager-gui
qt5ct – you will have to use a different tool to manage qt5 themes and configuration
wordgrinder – ncurses cli text processor (?)
xarchiver – was redundant (already using file-roller)

Replacements:
exfatprogs replaces exfat-utils (for exfat file systems)
Different firmware changes
ytfzf replaces mps-youtube (we already know that mpsyt is buggy, was replaced in 19.4)

New:
ipp-usb (used for printer and scanner USB support) should improve printer/scanner usb support
qpdfview-translations – now qpdfviewer will launched in different languages (translation support)
cups-bsd and sane-airscan – for better printing and scanning support
seamonkey – Extra web browser (also included in antiX 19.4)

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Changing abcde package state

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Xecure wrote:

calciumsodium wrote:

b1-runit does NOT boot up in normal boot (quiet splasht disable=lxF) for either the 4.9.0-264 nor the 5.10.27 kernels.

I just read this part. Does it boot properly when using bootcode?
xorg=intel
I had a similar issue on the previous a1, but didn’t see it happen to me again.

Hi @Xecure,

I tried
quiet splasht disable=lxF xorg=intel

and b1-runit still does not boot for me on this old hp 6730b laptop. It just produces a black screen similar to the
quiet splasht disable=lxF
boot option.

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calciumsodium wrote:

and b1-runit still does not boot for me on this old hp 6730b laptop. It just produces a black screen similar to the
quiet splasht disable=lxF
boot option.

Thanks for trying. I will test the runit version on a few of my machineswith intel GPU to see if it is consistent and try to figure out if I can find the reason.

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I’m running an installed instance of antiX-Bullseye-B1 again today. Yesterday before I stopped, I was having difficulty getting the package installer to run, so just to be safe, I took the repos that I had been successfully using with antiX-Bullseye-A2, copied them to my B2 instance and ran sudo apt update;sudo apt full-upgrade again. Then I was able to successfully use the package installer today.

Also, I had previously been unable to use the Alternatives Configurator, but I am able to use it fine today.

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Running antiX-Bullseye-B1 live. I’ve tried both kernels on my Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop; both work. On the installed version I booted with the 5* kernel and it worked flawlessly with everything.

I enabled BOTH Bullseye and Testing repos’; once I did that I was able to install any packages I wanted on the Live instance. I think I will have to reinstall the software on a USB with greater capacity to take full advantage of the features I attempted to install and save with persistence or choose different configuration sizes.

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I enabled BOTH Bullseye and Testing repos

okaybut… unless all betatesters agree to, or are advised to, similarly enable BOTH
doesn’t this detail taint any further betatesting performed on that system?

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Possibly tainted.

I booted again to set up a proper persistent state.

Will retest without testing and with testing separately and see if I can get good results either way.

Since I am using the same removable devices I can try various things without perverting all testing scenarios.

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Just rebooted with only antiX Bullseye enabled.

Installing a group of Web browsers; once antiX repo is enabled the package installer works fine.

Once completed I will check to ensure that I have set up persistence correctly and confirm that it functions exactly as expected. So far it looks good with either kernel on my system.

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