Xubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Live

 

 Running Xubuntu live:

inxi -b
System:
  Host: xubuntu Kernel: 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
  serial: <superuser/root required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: AMI
  v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100%)
CPU:
  6-Core: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics type: MT MCP
  speed: 1100 MHz min/max: 400/4056 MHz
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.0-46-generic LLVM 12.0.0)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_pci
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 252.80 GiB used: 662.1 MiB (0.3%)
Info:
  Processes: 303 Uptime: 25m Memory: 7.10 GiB used: 1.58 GiB (22.2%)
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full

 I'm here today with one of my longtime favorite distributions, antiX!

This edition is  antiX 21 runit x64 full - breaking that apart, this is Version 21, using the "runit" process handling routines on the AMD/Intel 64-bit image, and this is the "full-featured" version of antiX, still quite lean and efficient, yet full in terms of providing all of the every day features that many of us use on a regular basis.

siduction 21.3.0 Wintersky - Xfce

 

I'm here today with  siduction, using the 5.17.11-2-siduction-amd64 siduction kernel.

This system starts with Debian 12.1.0-2, adds it's own kernel, the Calemares installation program, distribution-specific backgrounds and themes, and a very fast job scheduler included in the kernel.

Here is a listing containing the configuration and some of its capabilities:

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.17.11-2-siduction-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 12.1.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0
    Distro: siduction 21.3.0 Wintersky - xfce - (202112231826)
    base: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A515-55 v: V1.12
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: IL model: Doc_IL v: V1.12 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: 1.12 date: 09/07/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 47.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 47.8/47.8 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.2 min: 11.2 model: LGC AP18C8K status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-1005G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 160 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1113 high: 1195 min/max: 400/3400 cores: 1: 977 2: 1137
    3: 1195 4: 1144 bogomips: 9523
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G1 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.11-2-siduction-amd64 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:5
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 18.49 GiB (15.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ128HBHQ-00000
    size: 119.24 GiB temp: 26.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 28.67 GiB used: 18.49 GiB (64.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 692 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.91 GiB used: 3 MiB (0.1%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 206 Uptime: 47m Memory: 3.63 GiB used: 1.81 GiB (50.0%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 Packages: 2046 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.16

antiX 21 "runit" Base

I’m here with antiX 21 runit on an old, but capable HP 5000 series desktop, specifically the model s5747c.

I “think”, but I am not 100% positive, that this particular model and series was “inherited” from the old Compaq 5000 desktop series that was inherited from the assets that Hewlett Packard acquired from the [Tandem, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation] acquisitions. It’s a solid desktop and you can see that one of the modules in it came from a 2010 board, so my guess is that this machine was manufactured in late 2010-2011. It runs quite well with antiX 21 runit “Base”.

`inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-21.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.7 
  Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: s5747c v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2A6C v: 5.00 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.01 date: 09/29/2010 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon II X2 255 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K10 
  rev: 3 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 12456 
  Speed: 3100 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: N/A bus-ID: 00:0d.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau,vesa 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting resolution: 1024x768 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.0-21.2-liquorix-amd64 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: e480 
  bus-ID: 00:07.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 11.1 GiB (1.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3750528AS size: 698.64 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 681.18 GiB used: 11.1 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.5 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 25.5 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 138 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.6 GiB used: 434.7 MiB (11.8%) 
  Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1253 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06`

What is antiX? Here is how to try it out - or install it

 If you have never seen antiX and do not know what it is, read the article at the link in the antiX Linux Forum: 

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/what-is-antix-and-how-to-try-it-out-or-install-it/#post-79779

systemrescue-9.01 for amd64

 I downloaded the systemrescue-9.01 for amd64 today, used the MX Linux Live USB Maker utility to install the contents on a removable USB drive, and now I'm using this software on my Acer Aspire 5 A515-55 laptop.

This is a handy image to have in the event of hardware or software issues, and it's also handy to carry around for remote use.

This image works with Wifi so it is portable, not only in size and capability, it's also handy.  This used to be called SystemRescueCD, but since it's commonly used with either CD/DVD or other removable devices, such as the very common USB sticks, the name has been changed to simply systemrescue (or SystemRescue).