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LucMove
Hi. My first post. I have just discovered antiX. I use Debian and I have questions:
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antiX can be used as a rolling release distro ie you should be able to keep your applications up to date by regularly upgrading. If you wish you can enable the Debian testing or unstable repositories and live on the bleeding-edge! For those that prefer stability, keep to the Debian Stable/stretch repositories.
That all sounds too good to be true. It’s probably just summarized beyond coherence for practical purposes, but I need to confirm. How can you freely move from testing to stable repositories when they are not compatible with each other and have very different dependency version requirements? How does that work EXACTLY? Please note I said EXACTLY.
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You boast many desktop environments but I see no mention of Openbox. Is it excluded for some reason?Or a better question: is there some way I can browse your repositories so I can check what is available and decide whether antiX is adequate for me?
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Why are all announcements made by someone called anticapitalista? Is antiX a communist distro? I really like to eat at least three times a day so that is important.Thank you for your attention.
- This topic was modified 4 years ago by LucMove.
anticapitalista
1. There is no mention of ‘freely moving from Testing to Stable repos’. You made that up
2. We ‘boast’ of 4 (hardly ‘many’). Again, you made that up.
3. We don’t provide food.- This reply was modified 4 years ago by anticapitalista.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by anticapitalista.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Anonymous
is there some way I can browse your repositories
ps:
For anyone who is uncomfortable editing sources.lists manually, antiX ControlCenter provides a GUI
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That all sounds too good to be true.
I’ll recommend this quick 3 minute tutorial:
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Why are all announcements made by someone called anticapitalista?
3. Who’s ‘Head_on_a_stick’? ‘noClue’. Why not ‘anticapitalista’? Got it?
It’s just a nickname of the founder of antiX. THE MAN behind.You boast many desktop environments but I see no mention of Openbox. Is it excluded for some reason?
Or a better question: is there some way I can browse your repositories …2. Openbox is not preinstaled by default. No need. Right click menu, IceWM can do and Fluxbox too.
As of browsing the repositories (‘App Store’, ‘Software Center’) — please see screenshot.antiX can be used as a rolling release distro
1. That sounds sh**t; it sounds like ‘Arch’ or: it’ll never work. However, the answer is pretty simple:
On install, you get choice … you choose between the workhorse or ‘the shot in the dark’.
Hit or miss.
0. Hi and welcome!
hi LucMove,
The defualt install is stretch for 16 and 17 and can upgrade to buster/sid by changing the
repos and 19 is based on buster.
I’ve done from stretch-buster and stretch to sid, but never tried to go backwards from them.as far as this goes ….I’ll let anti elaberate more on:
Why are all announcements made by someone called anticapitalista? Is antiX a communist distro?
I just gotta say he created with others antiX/MX after mepis died — one guy left for financial reasons.
And communist…—??? not. closer to libertarian-proactivist.
Giving a voice to those who big powers are trying to erase from history for voicing
their beliefs and convictions and exectuted for doing so.
thanks anti for “marielle franco” … I’ve never heard of her or known she was exucuted. great choice
on the name to show respect for the little voices.
And for openbox … you could install it.
there is also a respin thread on it.watsoccurring
skidoo
Many thanks for the new tutorial.
At the end of a public holiday, I can relax with a piece of happy cake.
rokytnji
1. Move testing to stable? Makes no sense.
2. Open Box is not Desktop Environment but a Window Manager. Small Team. Small Distro.
3. How you get communist from anticaptilaista is beyond my grokking.Howdy and Welcome.
Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsHi. I want to rephrase one of my questions.
Is there some way I can browse your repositories so I can check what is available and decide whether antiX is adequate for me BEFORE I INSTALL ANTIX?
I assumed that the part where I say “decide whether antiX is adequate for me” would be enough to make it clear that I want to browse the repositories BEFORE I decide whether I want to install the OS or not. Now I see it was not.
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
So package repository browsers that run on the OS after the OS is intalled are not what I want.
Someone mentioned http://repo.antixlinux.com
But that is unbrowseable.
You see, I started out in Linux in 2001 with a distro that is extinct now that always had a master list of all packages that we could download and grep for wanted packages.
You see, Arch has a search engine where I can just enter names and see what is available.
If antiX has anything like that, it would be terribly useful to me right now. If it doesn’t, that’s OK. Most distros don’t.
Thank you.
anticapitalista
The link you claim is ‘unbrowseable’ works just fine.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Can you please show me how it works? Suppose I am looking for a package called ‘asciijump.’ How do I find it in that link?
anticapitalista
search and if it is not there it means … it isn’t in the repo.
Hey, let’s make it more complex, try searching the Debian stretch repos as well.
http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/
Enjoy!
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by anticapitalista.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
You didn’t tell me how I am supposed to “search” it which is exactly what I wanted and you ignored.
And you are comparing apples to oranges. That one link on debian.org is unbrowseable, but they have this:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=search
Arch also has something similar, which I mentioned previously.
You are clearly defensive now. Unnecessary. I said that most distros don’t have that kind of resource and I said that it’s OK. So antiX doesn’t have it. OK then. Thank you for your attention.
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good for You LucMove; You found it
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
where you can search to find within what version of antiX repositories will suit your needs best. Pick one and stick with it. I think the number of packages is now said to be about 42 thousand. You found it; not just the system for You, but for everybody.If you boot the live cd and open synaptic and hit reload it shows all
of the available packages and can be searched before installing.
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