On Saturday 04 August 2018 10:43:59 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> William Morder composed on 2018-08-04 23:19 (UTC-0700):
> > Just wondering if anybody out there has tried this distro?
> >
> > https://antixlinux.com/
> > https://antixlinux.com/about/
> > https://antixlinux.com/antix-16-3-full-iso-files-available/
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/antiX-16/
> > https://antixlinux.com/download/https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/mxlin
> >ux-cd/ANTIX/Final/antiX-17.1/
> >
> > It is based on Debian, but without systemd, has a KDE4 desktop, but not a
> > lot of excess crap. It comes as a live CD, and can function as a rescue
> > disc, as well; would be nicer with TDE installed, but we can't get
> > everything we want. Also has a net install version, but this requires
> > Ethernet.
> >
> > Most of the images fit on a CD, and the base images come without
> > LibreOffice (for those of us out there who, like me, hate it). In any
> > case, it was created without systemd from the start. By the way, it is
> > hosted in the MEPIS repositories, or so I read somewhere.
> >
> > I intend to give it a try on my next system reinstallation.
>
> I gave it a try back when TDE was part of the AntiX distribution. It was
> nice enough except for an incompatibility with my multiboot methodology,
> which keeps a single partition with many apps, scripts and more I install
> outside the package management system for mounting as /usr/local/. AntiX
> keeps much of its differentiation from straight Debian in /usr/local/ in
> directories of the same names I use instead of /opt/, so instead of trying
> to figure out a way to work around the shared directories problems I simply
> dropped the idea of using it at all.

I use AntiX in a VM, to sandbox a web browser. 

Originally used AntiX (xfce) and MX Linux (icewm) for low resource machines. 
Part of a recycle older hardware plan. Not so much these days.

AntiX just works though tried to install TDE, failed, did not try harder.

greg