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Anonymous
Well, on the bright side, this conversation spared us from sitting idly all afternoon in the dayroom, watching for new paint cracks to appear, waiting for someone to bring our meal tray…
Brian Masinick
Well, on the bright side, this conversation spared us from sitting idly all afternoon in the dayroom, watching for new paint cracks to appear, waiting for someone to bring our meal tray…
My late father used to say that watching women’s tennis games (which featured very long back and forth exchanges, at least at the time he made the comment 25-30 years ago).
I suppose anything that is slow paced in this fast paced world could potentially apply. In any case, your comment brought me a chuckle and caused me to further digress.
I’m sorry, I have no experience whatsoever with small (tiny) panel bars.
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manyroads
No problem… meandering and thinking of days gone by, can all be good. 🙂
- This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by manyroads.
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"
rokytnji
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 problemsBrian Masinick
Sounds like a good approach to me Roki!
I wrote a note a few moments ago, describing both the joys and the occasional anguish that comes with choices and diversity. It’s when we can either “embrace” or at least “tolerate” approaches different than our own that we are able to create something beautiful.
As an example, I was just using Xubuntu before coming in here. It’s a REALLY easy to install and use distribution, and it’s practical for a lot of things. But when you compare it to antiX, it’s a very different distribution. The *buntu family of software tends to package big clumps of software together. That makes it really easy to package, update, maintain, and use, but it really sacrifices other aspects, such as frugal use of resources and the ability to make something WAY different. (You definitely CAN make something different from it, but the number of packages in common with the new and the original diminish much more so than they do with the antiX approach). Yet there is plenty of interest in them, and for legitimate reasons – they’re easy and they work well.
Fedora is another excellent example: a lot of cutting edge software, excellent security features and a community that offers many other forms of diversity. Again, not small or necessarily catering to really old hardware, but it’s still useful stuff.
We have our own really nice niche here too and I see it broadening in many ways. The constant challenge as the diversity of features broadens is deciding which features to embrace in the standard offerings and which to leave out. I think we do that very well, but as we’ve seen, perhaps with the current releases more than the previous ones, the more diverse we get, the more difficult it becomes to please everyone.
I’m very grateful for what anticapitalista does; in the end, the choices of what gets included or not included in distributions bearing his name are HIS. (Of course, there’s always the potential to fork some of this great work into yet another set of variations too – and that may or may not occur, depending on the energy and desire of those wishing to exercise their own will and creativity).
Blessings to you and all of our freedom seeking “software geek” friends! 🙂 [BIKER friends DEFINITELY included]! 🙂 🙂
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Brian Masinickolsztyn
I’m very grateful for what anticapitalista does; in the end, the choices of what gets included or not included in distributions bearing his name are HIS. (Of course, there’s always the potential to fork some of this great work into yet another set of variations too – and that may or may not occur, depending on the energy and desire of those wishing to exercise their own will and creativity).
Long live and prosper anticapitalista!
AntiX is architected with utmost dexterity. It includes all that is needed and only what is needed. No extraneous, useless stuff.
The beauty of antiX is that unlike other Linux distros I carry it in my wallet or keychain as fully configured, encrypted USB stick, plug into any laptop that happens to be at hand and boot quickly and efficiently a familiar OS environment. And when I say ‘laptop’ I do not need to evaluate if it is relatively new or old, how much memory it has or whether cpu is powerful enough to run it. If it looks like some type of laptop it is of no concern any further…
Along with excellent Live tools for persistence, frugal and excellent remastering it is perfection not found anywhere else in Linux world to my knowledge. Just one important thing to mention: All these Live and remastering tools are of the utmost importance for antiX to be the most useful distro.
As all is done right now (including good quality fonts in 19!) my only concern is long term continuity of development of this OS…Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parametersmanyroads
What you mean @anticapitalista is not as young as he once was ?!?!? Well, me neither and I’m a genealogist. So, I know what happens to us all. Opps. 😉
- This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by manyroads.
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"
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