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kontraukapitalismo
I’ve known about Antix for sometime as I spend time on Distrowatch, but I felt it wasn’t worth the time of installing since MX was there.
Oops.
I started digging into this distribution the other day and found it was made by someone that called themselves anticapitalista. My interest was piqued. I booted up Antix and started poking around. Found the bookmarks with links to Chomsky, Jacobin, & the Marxist Internet Archive.
And it uses Debian as a base without systemd.
This distribution is home. Thanks for Antix!
caprea
Hi, welcome to the forum !
seaken64
Welcome to antiX. I also feel very at home with antiX. Nothing heavy handed here. Just a lot of sharing with open source. AntiX has been instrumental in me getting comfortable with Debian.
Seaken64
ModdIt
Welcome to the forum and to the Antixians which among others the group around me has chosen to adopt as a name
for members and users.
You will find some here do not share the views of Anti but plenty who do, we are like Linux itself rather fragmented.
Brian Masinick
I’ve known about Antix for sometime as I spend time on Distrowatch, but I felt it wasn’t worth the time of installing since MX was there.
Oops.
I started digging into this distribution the other day and found it was made by someone that called themselves anticapitalista. My interest was piqued. I booted up Antix and started poking around. Found the bookmarks with links to Chomsky, Jacobin, & the Marxist Internet Archive.
And it uses Debian as a base without systemd.
This distribution is home. Thanks for Antix!
A bit of history: antiX originated well over a decade ago. At the time, it was a slimmed down variation of MEPIS, which at the time was a nice, trim KDE implementation (arguably one of the neatest, slimmest KDE-based distributions), certainly during the previous decade. So on one hand, MEPIS was a well-tuned KDE distribution – at a time when there were not very many Debian-based KDE distributions. Moreover, there were not very many lightweight distributions of any kind with strong toolkits with minimal resource interfaces and applications, so antiX fit a very nice niche, even more so within the Debian community.
Later, when Debian made some changes to the system initialization toolchest, antiX became one of the pioneers to deviate from antiX and maintain the status quo sysinitv. It’s even nicer today to see antiX taking a lead role in exploring other init alternatives, building runit in some early prototypes. Given that Debian is currently voting on future approaches in this area, it’ll be interesting to see their impact on our choices, preferences and development work in the future.
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