On Sunday 05 August 2018 07:58:56 Dan Youngquist wrote: > On 08/04/2018 11:19 PM, William Morder wrote: > > Just wondering if anybody out there has tried this distro? > > > > https://antixlinux.com/ > > I've had it on the laptop on which I'm typing for a year or so. It works > fine, and TDE installed with no problems. The only thing I don't like > about it is that it uses wicd for the network manager, which I don't really > care for with wifi. So I've been intending to change it to MX Linux, which > also works fine for me on several machines. I already install TDE over Debian Jessie with the KDE desktop, so I figured it wouldn't be any more difficult than that. And the fact that it runs init and not systemd is also good, as I think some of my problems are due to having to migrate from Debian to Devuan. I've never been able to do a successful installation directly from a Devuan disc, but must install Debian, then Devuan, then TDE, then uninstall LibreOffice and install OpenOffice, etc. And cannot do net install here, so I need to use a live disc. If my circumstances were different, then I would probably take a different approach. AntiX, too, sounds like their build without systemd is more integrated, so that I don't need to do a lot of messing. And it is for older machines, which describes both my desktop and laptop. (My desktop is currently using a laptop hard drive as sda1, with a minimal home directory, a fairly large root partition, four internal hard drives, two external hard drives, and numerous serial devices attached.) So a minimalist distro is probably better for my needs. Again, I can work with wicd, but it is not my networkmanager of choice; I'd much prefer to use tdenetworkmanager, but somehow that is causing me connection problems, whereas I can force my connection to behave by using a combination of command-line and wicd. Not how I'd like it to be, perhaps, but it works, which is better than the alternative. Thanks for everybody's input. I just wanted to know if it was worth wasting my time. For the present, Devuan Jessie seems to behave, but I'll wait and see a few days more. This would all be a lot simpler (at least, from a certain point of view) if I still had the luxury of an entire room dedicated to computers, parts, etc., where I had several different machines always running, or being rebuilt (including a Commodore Amiga 64, and a Mac Classic II), which allowed me more experimentation. I've never been a real geek; more a self-hacker, out of necessity. Now I must experiment on the same two machines that I need to use for work and life. Oh well ... we work with what we have. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
