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Malanrich

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Re: Will the pupil surpass the master?


	anticapitalista wrote: ....I should mention, antiX has been moving away from MEPIS for a while now and the latest version (undergoing testing) is 99.8% Debian Testing, 0.199999% antiX and the rest is MEPIS. ie next to nothing.

This brings us full circle, back to the origin of antiX as an updating of MepisLite. Maybe it's time for a new "Lite" that is more Mepis-centric.

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Yes - I would like a Mepis-Lite version that I could put on some older computers that don't have a DVD drive. I have run M11 on 512GB computers. It runs OK, just kinda slowish but not bad. Adding some RAM is certainly cheaper than buying W7.

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	Adrian wrote: And to be fair, beside the quality of the distro, one important factor is how accessible is the maintainer...

It is the main reason I have stuck with this distro for so long. Mepis got me started in Linux. Antix and the developer and members polished my Linux skillset. It is my favorite. :happy:

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A MepisLite would widen our user-base by providing an OS for the XP users that Uncle Mark refers to above. Those are the folks who (likely) want to install from a CD, want some basic version of KDE (but not the whole shebang), etc., but are afraid of antiX's learning curve (exaggerated but true for some people). People who want LibreOffice could go with MepisLite, but those wanting slimmer apps like Abiword could go with antiX. I can't speak for anticapitalista, but this approach might free him to develop antiX in interesting ways without having to produce a double-duty version of antiX and a slimmer Mepis. Just thinking out loud...

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Re: Will the pupil surpass the master?

Next antiX-full will come with libreoffice installed.

It will probably be impossible to have a MEPIS-Lite with kde and libreoffice fitting on a cd. A better option would be lxde or xfce.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:44 pm

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	anticapitalista wrote: Next antiX-full will come with libreoffice installed. It will probably be impossible to have a MEPIS-Lite with kde and libreoffice fitting on a cd. A better option would be lxde or xfce.

There's a saying in my line of work


	Code: Good, fast, cheap. Pick two.

In this situation, you could say


	Code: Small, modern, full-featured. Pick two.

Warren has always said he wanted the base installation to be fully functional OOTB, and he feels the productivity suite has to be part of that.

Then there's the definition of Lite. Is that small, to fit on a CD? Or is it light on resources? Reducing the amount of included software can get you the first, but a modern KDE isn't going to give you the latter.

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Re: Will the pupil surpass the master?

Is there a KDE 4 distribution that fits on a CD? It wouldn't have much else I'd think.
Bottom line is that if you absolutely have to use a CD then you should use a USB FlashDrive.

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	lucky9 wrote: Is there a KDE 4 distribution that fits on a CD? It wouldn't have much else I'd think.

I'm pretty sure PCLOS fits on a CD. Here, lemme check... yep, looks like it

pclinuxos-kde-2012.02.iso
689.1 MiB

However, it does not include an office suite. Texstar has an install script on the desktop that dwnloads and installs it.

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Re: Will the pupil surpass the master?

uncle mark wrote:


	lucky9 wrote: Is there a KDE 4 distribution that fits on a CD? It wouldn't have much else I'd think.

Aptosid also has a KDE 'lite' (http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/release/). It's approx. 590MB, so it would fit on a CD.

It also has no office suite, and it seems to leave out quite a few KDE4 packages (compared to MEPIS). The i386 list of installed packages is here: http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/ ... 6.manifest. I'm not sure how usable of a KDE4 desktop you get with everything that's left out.

Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:02 pm

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Re: Will the pupil surpass the master?

Kubuntu fits a CD too. It does install some stuff from internet, but I think you can install without internet access so that means that it fits on CD.

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