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ensabahnur
Pin Linux OS (MX Linux 21 Spin). A light version of MX Linux LXDE. This is not a new Distro it’s just an MX Linux 21 spin using LXDE. This system is based on antiX-core using MX Linux repository, come with minimal installed, so you can add any app from Debian and MX repositories.
The base version its only the base, only essential to boot up the system with graphic interface. Kernel 5.14
The base for old machines its the same base but with more old drivers and kernel 4.9
The full version its like a ready to go system already customised.
Support only 64 bits (x86_64, amd64).
No support for Printer, Samba, or Bluetooth. But you can install them if you need them easily.For printers:
sudo apt install cupsFor Bluetooth:
sudo apt install bluemanFor Samba sharing:
sudo apt install sambaRecommended for old machines, either laptops or desktops. Nevertheless, if you have a modern machine the system will fly blazing fast, good for games, for example.
Still in the testing stage, so feel free to report any problem, I’ll be happy to help and sort out any case when is possible.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pin-linux-os/
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ydek
Congratulations on respin Pin Linux OS, very successful.
olsztyn
Congrats! Looks very nice…
Just a question out of curiosity: From the included screenshot – is this OS running on rather powerful machine that it is using so much memory running just LXTask and HTop or this large memory footprint should be attributed to LXDE?
In any case nice accomplishment…
Thanks…Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters
anticapitalista
Congratulations.
Seems more to me as an antiX spin than MX eg using connman rather than network-manager.
Good luck with your project.Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
No problem,actually it was a live system that a I use just to take a screenshot to post here, usually starts with 350 MB, this is the minimal to a Debian Bullseye using a DE, but you can just remove the theme and icons that I put by default and you could reach less than 220 MB on boot, it’s up to you. Just to remember, do not worry about RAM usage so much, think about CPU usage and a responsive system, things like how many tasks running on system, less is better. Also responsiveness is very important, when you click in something and open immediately even on old machines is nice.
Thanks, that’s true, since I started from antix-core it’s closer to antiX than MX, only difference is the MX tools included, not all, but the most used. đ
I like to use connman because has a dhcp built-in and can help to connect Bluetooth as well.
marcelocripe
Congratulations ensabahnur for your respin “Pin Linux OS”, I also wish you every success.
Thanks.
Meus ParabĂ©ns ensabahnur pelo seu respin “Pin Linux OS”, eu tambĂ©m desejo muito sucesso.
Obrigado.
Thanks. I’m open to suggestions.
Thanks, I’m happy to post it here thanks to your tip and your efforts with all the team in translations work. Good to have a nice community on Telegram.
Screenshots from new ISO base version.
Yoghi
I’ve just downloaded your respin and I’ll give it a try.
Connman choice instead of NetworkManager is a wise choice considering that NetworkManager has a regression never fixed in years which generate an infinite NetworkManager loop due to time out in obtaining lease with for sure a D-Link 131 E1 USB dongle (chip rtl8192EU) and looking to cpmplaints in internet also with other chipsets from different manufacturers.
Last NetworkManager release sure working is 1.22.10 I’ve not tried 1.24 but from 1.26.6 and ahead every release also 1.35 is affected by the same regression, with MX-21 I’m unable to connect, forced to chroot to install connman which works flawlessly.
Thanks a lot indeed for the opportunity you give me to check if my findings are true cause if with your respin the connection works OOTB it would be better if also MX team would think to switch to connman.
If wifi doesn’t work OOTB newbies think “It sucks” and go away and MX doesn’t deserve this with all the efforts they put in this years.
melodie
Hello @ensabahnur,
I want to try one, but I don’t know which one to pick. đ
I will test in Virtualbox, so I guess the Pin_Linux_Full.iso should be my first choice to see its full potential?
Meanwhile I would like to invite you to test my spins that use Openbox and PCManFM, (but not all LXDE), perhaps you would be interested to use them as basis for some of your next respins? You can find full descriptions in English here : https://linuxvillage.org/en/ (only the ones that bear “Bento antiX” in the name, as the other Bento Remix distros are built with Ubuntu using a python script and chroot – same recipe, different distro).
PPC
Hi @ensabahnur,
Congratulations. Used Mx (I still have it installed as backup OS on one of my computers) and I colaborated with MXFB – I’m grad to see that, you managed to bring down the idle RAM usage to the very low two hundred mb’s- something I can only do on MXFB turning off stuff like the volumeicon, etc…antiX still has lower idle RAM usage, but MX (by default, I haven’t tested your spin yet) has more services available, making user’s life simpler at the cost of some system resources…
I thought long and hard about making an antiX spin off, but I decided against it for one simple reason: the Linux desktop user’s share is tiny (2%-5% maybe?) and the huge amount of Distros available is overwhelming to not only newbies to the Linux world but also to the more hard core users… I went the “Transformation Pack” road, with FT10 – I sometimes still think that user’s life would be easier if they had available, out of the box, an iso that allowed them to test and install antiX + FT10… But there are already some antiX based distros (like LocOS and a Bento flavour)- and antiX is already meant to a niche market (mainly very old devices)…
If you don’t mind me asking (out of personal curiosity): who is this OS “target”? Users that come from MX and want an even lighter system than MXFB? Users that like LXDE? Newbies or veteran users?
Great work!
Edit: just like Melodie, I also invite you to try out my ft10-transformation package . it installs and configures a tint2 toolbar and a jgmenu, with some extra scripts and applications, so a default antiX installation can have a more modern and standard User Interface. If you enable the use of the FT10 toolbar with a “Categories Menu”, it’s quite similar to your own U.I. – and if offers some nice amenities like skippy-xd to view all running windows in real time (and switch to one) , etc… Maybe we can both use ideas from each other and make our software even better đ
P.
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anticapitalista
LocOS is now dissing antiX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDngGEThIy8Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
melodie
Edit: just like Melodie, I also invite you to try out my ft10-transformation package . it installs and configures a tint2 toolbar and a jgmenu, with some extra scripts and applications, so a default antiX installation can have a more modern and standard User Interface. If you enable the use of the FT10 toolbar with a âCategories Menuâ, itâs quite similar to your own U.I. â and if offers some nice amenities like skippy-xd to view all running windows in real time (and switch to one) , etc⊠Maybe we can both use ideas from each other and make our software even better đ
P.
I am interested to try it in Bento antiX especially since I have read about Skippy-xd once and always wanted to see it in action. Is ft-transformation package in the repos? Elsewhere? Did you write a full description for it somewhere?
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