antiX Xfce respin by Manyroads

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Manyroads wrote a very interesting article, which I happened to find on the MX Forum, on how to build an Xfce variation of antiX. Once built, he also shows us how to remove the “usual” antiX configurations, removing IceWM, Fluxbox, and many other programs, leaving you with an antiX implementation of Xfce that is quite similar to MX Linux, except that it is definitely a custom build, created exclusively from antiX tools.

(I wrote an article nearly a decade ago on how to create an antiX Core Xfce distribution. I suggest that Mark’s approach is very good and quite possibly easier to accomplish with success!)

I looked around a bit though not exhaustively, to see if this same topic has been mentioned here. If it was, I failed to spot it. With due credit to Manyroads (a contributor here and the MX Linux Forum, the link from the MX Forum is
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=104&p=606623&sid=a77b2759cc6a9b052733cb71a8c10054#p606606
the reference on the MX Linux Forum is https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/
and the page I’m referring to is https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/convert-antix-to-an-xfce4-based-distro-a-tutorial/
Another antiX variation using OpenBox and Xfce is
https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/antix-openbox-xfce-respin/

Thanks to Manyroads (Mark Rabideau), Mark and his wife Becky operate eirenicon.org – here is a short abstract on their page: “eirenicon l.l.c. is a small consulting firm focused on helping individuals, organizations, and businesses develop and achieve their personal and professional objectives.” Read https://eirenicon.org/ – and select About to read more, or read any of the other work. All credit for this work either goes to them or the sources they cite on their pages.

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Brian Masinick

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Thank you @masinick. All the materials I have created and are offered on the eirenicon site are free for the taking. I hope they are helpful.

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@manyroads: I think that your information is *very* helpful and I hope that many people will take advantage of it and use it. I also hope that your small business venture is effective, and if this discussion in any way brings “traffic” and business, that would be nice too. As I said, Mark, I really appreciate your work and wish you the very best!

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