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Anti-x and squeeze question
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Post # 243233
 Anti-x and squeeze questionWhat's the difference between Anti-x 8.5 running on squeeze repos and mepis 8.5 running on squeeze repos? Would it be easier to get the latest x-org, etc. by "Squeezifying" mepis, or by adding KDE to Anti-x?
What are the pros and cons of each approach? |
| Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:12 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:59 pm Posts: 3252 Location: Deep South, New Zealand Has thanked: 64 times Have thanks: 134 times
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Post # 243237
Biggest issue I found was that udev had changed drastically - so going from MEPIS to squeeze caused a lot of breakage. I think Danum has a pretty good formula for doing it though.
AntiX is based on squeeze anyway - so it's your best bet. Other option is a pure Debian net install. It's not actually that hard to do. _________________ Desktop - Win 8-64 : Corsair 520HX, P5Q Pro, Q6600 G0 @ 3Ghz, 4Gb DDR2 1066, Asus GTX560 OC, 3xWD 500Gb Sata2, Asus CD/DVD, Logitech Wave Kb, G5, C300 Cam, Audio-gd NFB-12 + LD MKIV + GigaWorks T20. Netbook - Ubuntu 12.04 64b, Asus 1015PED 2Gb Ram |
| Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:31 pm |
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Post # 243244
There have been a couple of success reports that started with antiX.
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| Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:14 am |
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Post # 243298
If it's KDE that you want then a Netinstall will give you a clean and up-to-date system. Not that antiX has many things you could want to remove.
A bigger difference would be the kernel, but then you can install whatever kernel you like. Also Debian defaults only to "main" repository section in sources.list and you may want to add "contrib" and "non-free" as well (I think it can even be done during installation if you opt for the advanced mode). |
| Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:11 am |
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