Aiming first to try and realize several features more or less weak / absent in Links. It started as a fork based on the code of Links browser. Let me end with a screenshot of the IceWM environment, which I would recommend if you wanted to use this for a guest computer where people will be expecting Windows and looking for a “start menu”.ELinks is an effort to create an advanced text-based web browser. Oh, and it looks slick with the “transparent” xterms. It looks good and, with a package that would add icons to the desktop, I’d probably use this for the guest computer so visitors could browse the web without me worrying about them introducing viruses to my computers. I didn’t need any “cheat codes” to get it to boot. You get nice, functional software and there weren’t any boot problems. If you have an older computer that you don’t want to send to the junk bin – install Antix! You get the awesome Debian base under the also awesome (so I’ve heard) base of Mepis. So my current recommendation list would be Antix, Puppy Linux, and then Feather Linux. So, over all, I think Antix is the best, most fully featured Lightweight Linux distro I’ve tested thus far. (And a few others) And for games there’s Mahjong, Chess, and Dosbox. So if you’re using Anitx on a very low-powered PC, this could be very useful for you.įor audio and video we have xine, mplayer, and xmms. Now you can get the uber-fast browsing experience of using a commandline browser and still experience images. I recently learned ( I think in Linux Format Magazine) that Links2 is also capable of displaying images! Usually elinks, lynx, and so on do not display any images – limiting your web experience. Links2, a commandline browser was available as well. Dillo is included, as usual, but it’s pretty useless in my experience. IRC is done via XChat – again, pretty nice for a lightweight system. This is a much more fully-featured program than is usually included in these distros. Pidgin is included for instant messaging. Gnumeric is the spreadsheet program, par for the course. For office Abiword is included for typing, as usual with these lightweight distros. Nana and Leafpad are included for text editing. MtPaint was included here, as in Damn Small Linux. I’m not really into the IceWeasel theme, but that can easily be changed. I think, probably, anyone using Antix is enough of a Linux pro that they know that IceWeasel is the same as Firefox and won’t get flustered. I guess Mepis uses this from Debian and Antix has left it unchanged. The default browser in Antix is IceWeasel 3.0 – which is basically Firefox 3.0 with different artwork. It has a slight military feel to it – the workspaces are named Alpha, Bravo, Gamma and Delta. The system colour scheme and fonts are easy to read and use. It looks pretty nice and the default terminal style uses fake transparency (it clones the desktop background). (Although IceWM is available from the menu) There’s a neat system monitor running in the top left corner. Here’s a screenshot of my desktop upon boot.Īs you can see, the default Window Manager for Antix is Fluxbox. I think at one point it was based on Ubuntu, but I think they’ve gone back to being based on Debian. Antix is based upon Mepis which is, in turn, based upon Debian. It’s another light distro, so I will use the same metrics I used in the Lightweight Linux Throwdown. This month, Antix 7.5 was included on the LXF DVD. It’s time once again for a Linux distro review.
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