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Brian Masinick
and 19.2-Base are 733MB. So they won’t fit on CD either.
Yes, it says 733mb, but if you click on the download it’s 699 mb
Maybe this is an antiX New Year surprise! 👍😃😎
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Brian Masinickseaken64
@Robert B, now that you have antiX 32-bit loaded you can start playing with browsers. Have you shared your “inxi -Fxzr” output yet? If it’s 32-bit it may not support PAE and it won’t support SSE2. You’ll probably want to look at Palemoon-nonsse2 and SeaMonkey.
With SeaMonkey you’ll have to install 2.49.4. The versions after that require SSE2. It’s a little tricky to setup SeaMonkey 2.49.4 since the Package Installer installs the latest, which won’t work. You can install from the Package Installer and then copy over the 2.49.4 version folder over the top of the current version. That will preserve the menu launcher. Then put a “hold” on SeaMonkey.
Have fun with 32-bit antiX.
seaken64
Robert B
Here is the output of:
$ inxi -Fxzr
System: Host: opa Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.0.0
Distro: antiX-19.3_386-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: N/A Mobo: N/A model: K8Upgrade-NF3 v: 1.00 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: L1.01
date: 07/11/2005
CPU: Topology: Single Core model: AMD Sempron 2600+ bits: 64 type: UP arch: K8 rev.E rev: 2 L2 cache: 128 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 3215
Speed: 1608 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1608
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] vendor: Club-3D BV driver: radeon v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680×1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 DRI2 v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb AC97 Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Device-1: NVIDIA CK8S Ethernet vendor: ASRock type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: ec00
bus ID: 00:05.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 type: USB driver: r8188eu bus ID: 1-7:3
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 225.74 GiB used: 4.18 GiB (1.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1600JD-55HBB0 size: 149.05 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HDS728080PLAT20 size: 76.69 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 143.71 GiB used: 4.14 GiB (2.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 47.1 MiB (2.3%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info: Processes: 149 Uptime: 1h 45m Memory: 493.4 MiB used: 110.0 MiB (22.3%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36Been reading around a little about lightweight web browsers for Linux. Most of them use the same web engines as the big ones, which doesn’t really help. I tried out Vivaldi, which looks nice but is also very slow on this machine.
I am now using (right now, typing this) NetSurf. As I type this, top shows me that NetSurf is using 2% of CPU and 11.8% of memory. The browser is still quite snappy, and the system as a whole is responsive, unlike when I tried Vivaldi, or before that Firefox. Netsurf is limited, and I will continue exploring it to see where it fails (undoubtedly it will, in some areas). For now I’m quite happy though.
Installation was as easy as:
sudo apt install netsurfAnonymous
A lightweight candidate for your consideration: https://gitlab.com/nXecure/badWolf
It has been discussed here in the forum; search the forum for “badwolf”> same web engines as the big ones
Mmmmm, it’s using webkit engine vis the dependencies shown here
A lightweight candidate for your consideration: https://gitlab.com/nXecure/badWolf
Installed Badwolf. Nice browser. Now I need to find a way to play YouTube videos with video and audio in sync with each other – watching YouTube videos will be a major use case for this machine, to be used by my kids. Currently it is still an unsatisfactory experience, with the video lagging >10 secs behind the audio and moving very sluggishly.
Xecure
Try with streamlight.
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/FAQ/streamlight.htmlFind the youtube link you want to play, copy it, launch streamlight and select the video quality.
i tried it out a few times and it worked well. I wish it could somehow integrate with a browser or with one of the other youtube playing related apps in antiX, but it is OK.
Try it out to see how it goes. if not installed, you can install it from terminal or from the package installer.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.
anticapitalista
With only 512MB RAM, forget about playing YouTube videos via a browser.
Instead, do what Xecure suggests or use smtube or mps-tube.Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
With only 512MB RAM, forget about playing YouTube videos via a browser.
Instead, do what Xecure suggests or use smtube or mps-tube.Thanks Xecure and anticapitalista for the suggestions. I tried it out – in streamlight I can play videos ok.
@Robert B – Good, your processor does support SSE2. You can try the latest version of SeaMonkey. For me it has been the best of the “big ones” for my old computers. Badwolf and Netsurf are also useful, but may not be so good for your kids. SeaMonkey looks and works like an old Firefox version and is not so unusual as some of these others.
I set my copy up with NoScript Classic (compatible with Legacy Firefox) and then set my home page to DuckDuckGo and “allow” the DuckDuckGo page. When you first setup SeaMonkey it may go to 100% CPU use for a while. You need to be patient while you setup the homepage and new pages in Preferences and install NoScript and then restart. Once it is setup is is fairly good and no longer always runs at 100% CPU.
YouTube won’t work in the browser. I use SMTube and Streamlight, or yt-download at the console. SMTube will be more user friendly for the kids.
I also run the antiX Adblock program off the Preferences menu and select all the blockers.
Also try Palemoon. Some folks have had good success with that also.
seaken64
- This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by seaken64.
[SeaMonkey] with NoScript Classic (compatible with Legacy Firefox)
Ah, that’s a good tip !
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