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[Member DGang]

Hi All,
My name is Damon Gang and I have been using different linux distro’s for about 21 years (Debian was probably my first.). My desktop currently has Manjaro (which I may switch to something like MX) and I am planning to put Antix on my 2, several years old, Dell (Inspiron) laptops (Intel Core i3 and AMD A6 7th Gen) … which I think Antix should be a good fit for (not much RAM). I have tried to use TAILS with persistence by the way … and never got the persistence to work right … so I also hope to have more success with Antix persistence 🙂
Peace

[Member ModdIt]

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Hallo and welcome to the forum. antiX will run fine on I3 and A6 both way more powerful
than many devices we use daily.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Greetings Damon! I am a long time antiX user and I also happen to have a Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop, which I am using right now.

Here’s a report on it:

inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 5.11.0-21.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 
           Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 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: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%) volts: 16.5 min: 14.8 
           model: Samsung SDI DELL 07G07587587 status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19155 
           Speed: 2878 MHz min/max: 500/2401 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2878 2: 2400 3: 2462 4: 2944 
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 
           Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-5:3 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 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 
           Device-3: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.1 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.0-21.2-liquorix-amd64 running: yes 
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: kernel port: e000 
           bus-ID: 07:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-6:4 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: warning rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes 
           address: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 18.82 GiB (4.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 78.19 GiB used: 18.82 GiB (24.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 98.4 MiB used: 1.7 MiB (1.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 25.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200 
Info:      Processes: 175 Uptime: 2m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (16.1%) Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           Packages: 1301 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Brian Masinick.

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Brian Masinick

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DGang wrote:

I think Antix should be a good fit for (not much RAM)

Welcome – don’t worry about RAM – antiX runs very well even in a single core netbook with 1 gig of shared RAM…
The persistence works great in antiX – you can checkout some help on how to set it up, I think Dolphin Oracle has some Youtube video detailing the process…
Also, if you think antiX default User Interface looks a bit too much “old school”, you can install ft10-transformation package (and activate FT10’s toolbar on the antiX Preferences menu).
antiX is Debian, the way it should be by default – light, with less dependencies, without bloat, and with some applications more up to date (like LibreOffice, Gimp and Wine)

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Hello Damon Gang.

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

I don’t know how to write in English and I send my texts translated by the internet translator. I hope you can understand everything, if your native language is not English, please translate my original Brazilian Portuguese text directly into your language with the help of internet translators.

Regardless of your level of knowledge about GNU/Linux, I recommend you read these excellent tutorials created by @PPC:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie and How-to install applications – 2020 version.

When you start any topic or participate with any post, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, by checking this option you will receive a message in your email inbox whenever there are replies to the topic in question.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

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Olá Damon Gang.

Seja bem-vindo ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês e envio os meus textos traduzidos pelo tradutor da internet. Eu espero que você consiga compreender tudo, caso o seu idioma nativo não seja o Inglês, por favor, traduza o meu texto original em idioma Português do Brasil diretamente para o seu idioma com a ajuda dos tradutores da internet.

Independentemente do seu nível de conhecimento sobre GNU/Linux, eu recomendo você ler estes excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie e How-to install applications – 2020 version.

Quando você iniciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, marcando esta opção, você receberá uma mensagem na sua caixa de e-mail sempre que houver respostas do tópico em questão.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)

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