antiX 22 wtih updater and icon manager

 I've been working with a couple of different antiX distributions.  My main one is antiX 22.  The others are Legacy OS 2023 and antiX 23 Alpha 1.

Legacy OS 2023 is a stable, good looking, minimal and useful antiX alternative for older systems.  As such it doesn't work with my newest system, my HP-14 laptop, but it's especially good on my old Lenovo X201 and my Dell Inspiron 5558.

As for the updater, PPC, an antiX contributor, has written several useful tools using yad with either Bash, Python, or a combination of both.  yad-updater, icewm-toolbar-manager, icewm-quick-personal-menu-manager, yad-touchpad, and FT10 are several of the tools written by PPC.

 

antiX 23 Alpha 1

 

 The first build for this year's version of antiX, a lean, efficient distribution, is available.  The first build was generated using  "runit (is) an init and service management scheme for Unix-like operating systems that initializes, supervises, and ends processes throughout the operating system."

"Why use runit?

"Runit's simple collection of tools can be used to build flexible dependency structures and distributed systems, or blazing fast parallel runlevel changes (including the initial boot)."

Regarding antiX - "(from 2017)

The Most Extensive Live-usb on the Planet!

Back in 2009, the antiX devs foresaw that usb flash drives would be the wave of the future for live Linux media. During the ensuing eight years antiX has been refining their live-usb technology striving to improve the live-usb experience and to find new and unique ways for making use of fast read-write live boot media. During this same time usb flash drives have got larger, more reliable, much cheaper, and much much faster."

Regarding the new test image -

"Just to give you a taste of where antiX-23 stands at the moment.

Do not use this on critical systems.
The default Debian repos point to bookworm, but antiX ones to testing.
This will change to bookworm once the Debian hard freeze begins.
This is labelled an alpha as it will not be supported at all.
It is only to help in testing, bug fixing etc.

Size of iso = approximately 1.6GB
Includes 2 kernels – 4.19 legacy and 5.10 ‘modern’
Defaults to zzz-IceWM ‘desktop’
No ft10 transformaton pack, but PPC’s changes to zzzFM are included (eg trash option). Still single-click though.
New wallpaper from Sakasa (thanks to roky for posting the links). I reduced the size and made it smaller though since the original weighs in at 9MB!"