antix17 vs antix19 (on vbox) – a few questions, a few problems – newbie.

[Member danomar]

Hi,
at the beginning, forgive me, but I’m a beginner.

So far I have used ubuntu-unity-16.04 (host) + vbox and antix-17 (guest) + vpn (windscribe). Everything worked great out-of-the-box.

However, the passage of time forces to update. At the moment the host is ubuntu-20.04 + unity (I love it) and the guest is antix 19.3 + vpn

I know that tastes are not discussed, but visually I liked the a17 much more than the a19 – hence the question number:

1 – when a17 will ‘reach end of life’?

Going back to a19 – after installing on vbox (hassle-free installation) the first problem is resolution – resolution change only worked until restart – problem solved thanks to https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/changing-screen-resolution/ – great thanks @anticapitalisa

Unfortunately, I am not able to choose the resolution of 1920×1080 – it is simply not on the list (in arandr), hence the question:

2 – how to add resolution to the list in arandr? (I tried via xrandr:

gtf 1920 1080 60
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  172.80  1920 2040 2248 2576  1080 1081 1084 1118  -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode Virtual1 "1920x1080_60.00"
xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00

but after each restart the mode is not on the list of available resolutions – probably skipping some stage: /).

And now the most important problem – vpn (windscribe in my case). I follow all the steps exactly the same as for a17. In this case: https://windscribe.com/guides/linux

The program indicates that there is a connection and everything, but there is no internet (so, I think it is OS not windscribe). So the question:

3 – how to set up a working vpn? (in this case, I don’t even know where to look).

Thanks again for your understanding and all help.

[Member Xecure]

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Hi, danomar.

danomar wrote:

1 – when a17 will ‘reach end of life’?

If you see the forum categories, you will see the antiX 17 category says:

antiX-17 “Heather Heyer, Helen Keller”
Previous current release of antiX. Supported until 2022. Post here for questions, comments, bugs.

danomar wrote:

2 – how to add resolution to the list in arandr?

You could follow your previous instructions, and add those 3 commands to the top of the screen_resolution.sh script (under #!/bin/bash) so that it creates the resolution option and then it sets it up. This way you don’t need to use arandr, and simply add more to the already existing script.
If you are using Virtualbox, why not run
VBoxClient --vmsvga
instead, to enable auto-resize resolution? This way you wouldn’t need to use the fixed resolution, but maybe I am overstepping and you need a specific resolution and not the whole window/monitor size.

danomar wrote:

3 – how to set up a working vpn?[in antiX 19]

This may be related to connman interfering with the VPN. If you are not using connman’s VPN function, switch to ceni to manage the virtual network port
antix-wifi-switch --gui ceni
(Though this tool was meant to switch wireless network manager, it switches the connection manager as a whole, so don’t worry about the name).
After this, try setting up the VPN following those instructions that worked for you on antiX 17 (and let us know if it worked or if we can provide a different alternative).

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member Murdock2525]

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Just run it on a USB with persistence
Forget this damned virtual nonsense

[Member seaken64]

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I use Virtual Machines a lot for testing and don’t agree that it is nonsense. But I do agree that a session using the Live USB may help with troubleshooting.

seaken64

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I don’t run live as much as I probably would if I didn’t install and multi-boot so many systems.

In spite of the fact that I don’t run live a great deal, I didn’t say that I don’t do it at all, I definitely do, and I have an entire container full of USBs, most of which can be run live. On top of that I still have quite a few DVDs and CDs remaining, though I seldom pull them out any more with the faster, more flexible sticks that have been available for many years now.

Though I don’t use live media all the time, during the first five years or so that the original MEPIS and antiX came into existence, I was using live media much more often; especially if I was using a laptop instead of a desktop system. I couldn’t install Linux on take home laptop systems, but that didn’t prevent me from booting them live from removable Linux media, and that’s what first brought me to these systems in the first decade of this century; by this time, I already had around ten years of Linux experience and 20+ years of UNIX experience and additional experience with mainframe systems and real time systems.

Every now and then I boot my systems from live media instead of running the installed instances; in those cases I usually also utilize persistence; I’ve used both static and frugal forms of persistence, root and home persistence.

For those who don’t have a bunch of preinstalled systems, I highly recommend looking into frugal persistence; I think that you will like it.

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