There's a new version of MEPISLite out. It is called AntiX. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and is designed to work on older boxes with low ram. It comes with fluxbox and doesn't come with kde. It has the MEPIS installer as well as some other MEPIS goodies. It is the fastest MEPIS I have ever used since 2004. I am posting from it right now. Installed to hard drive and chainloaded with grub. I was toying with the new PclinuxOs and the new sidux but I like antiX better. It's waay faster than any other distro. Not an idle claim, fact. Test it yourself or read about it at distrowatch. I wouldn't use PclinuxOs from the super slow way that synaptic loads up. Thumbs down. Other than the slow synaptic PclinuxOs is the next best thing to MEPIS. Looks and feels a lot like MEPIS. I would probably be a diehard PclinuxOs supporter if there was no MEPIS. Thank god for MEPIS. And antiX.

Synaptic has been updated in the PCLOS repositories and it now has a much snappier start

>It's waay faster than any other distro

only because it doesn't require high system specs. just like debian, it's the fastest distro i've ever used.

It would have to be a lot quicker. I'll boot into pclinux and see what the upgrade does. I found that upgrading a pile of packages on pclinux was slow but maybe that's fixed with a better synaptic.
AntiX will start synaptic in a couple of seconds and pclinux was well over a minute or more. Not exactly sure how long it was really taking pclinux to start synaptic as I left and made a sandwich and synaptic was still just getting going. Mepis loads synaptic a little bit slower than antiX. About twenty seconds or less maybe.
I did find that pclinux was good. I like it almost as much as MEPIS. I like anything with kde. Fluxbox is pretty neat too. AntiX has fluxbox which I have been using for a few days. It's hard to decide on which is the best. simplymepis 3.4.3 has been the fastest overall but antiX is quicker yet. Might be the quickest os I've ever used.

Well how would you know anything about antiX ? From personal experience?
I've tried debian in several versions and the fastest of them all was mepis's 3.4.3. So I know from personal experience.
AntiX is faster than 3.4.3 by a little bit. Probably due to fluxbox being faster than kde.

Now I know that you have never tried antiX and are really just talking through your hat but untill you really try it you are not credible when you make your comparisons. To me anyways. And probably some others.
You always seem like you are trying to start some sort of trouble on all my threads and posts. If you don't like MEPIS then that's your business, if you think that your install of debian is the fastest that you have used then by all means start your own thread and explain everything that you did to make it so fast. Otherwise save your comments for some thread where you can sound off as you please. I wasn't soliciting any other 'fast operating system' comments to try and compare with antiX.
There is really only one way to compare and that is by downloading the live antiX cd from distrowatch and trying it out. Use vmware or install it to hard drive as I did. But save your comments until you can be helpful and constructive.
You can get antiX at distrowatch. It's listed as a mepis os. Unless you don't want to try it 'cause you don't know how to use fluxbox. It is a little different. Gotta right click the fluxbox screen to get anything done. It comes with some kdelibs so you can run kde apps. And you can build up antiX to the way you want. Comes with the MEPIS installer and more. It is so fast that even though I am a diehard kde fan I have been using antiX just 'cause it is faster than anything else that i have installed. That includes the latest new release of sidux, pclinuxos 2007 final, knoppix newsest, MEPIS 6.5 final, MEPIS 6.0, MEPIS 3.4.3, MEPIS 3.3.1-1, MEPISLite 3.3.2,
Speedwise on my machine these operating systems line up like this;
1) Antix. Definately the fastest.
2)MEPIS 3.4.3 Used to be the fastest but is still faster than the rest.
3)MEPIS 6.5 Right behind 3.4.3 ,
The next guys are all pretty close to each other in speed.....
4)MEPIS 6.0
5)PCLinuxOS
6)Sidux
7)Knoppix
8)MEPIS 3.3.1-1 and MEPISLite 3.3.2 are both slow compared to the rest of the guys on this list.
This is on a middle of the road older box. P4 2000Mhz,1.16 Gb ram, two 250 Gb drives, dvd rom and dvd burner.

mmm i may try antix. Before i used DSL but its too basic.

>Now I know that you have never tried antiX
Did he tell you that?

>You always seem like you are trying to start some sort of trouble on
>all my threads and posts.
I don't see why you're so offended by that statement; generally speaking, the lower an operating system's minimum requirements, the faster it will run. You said yourself that AntiX was designed with low-RAM boxes in mind, and while I've never used it myself, I think it isn't at all illogical to say that this is the reason it runs so fast.

Considering that antiX has only been out at distrowatch for three days and MEPIS sentiment at this forum is low I think it would be a pretty safe bet that he or anyone else here hasn't used antiX. Except me of course. The version of antiX at distrowatch is antiX rc5. I have been beta testing antiX rc5 and others.

Originally Posted by joeprogrammer
I don't see why you're so offended by that statement

it's just the way that he said it. He said " only because it doesn't require high system specs" You go read all the posts that TheNNS has posted on the threads that I have posted on and decide for yourself. He trolls almost every thread I post in. If you read his replies to my posts you would see why I get a bit defensive at this site. But not from everyone. I never look for hassles. I just like helping people use MEPIS. Or antiX. Or linux in general if I can. Not fight over which version of Linux is the best one. I'm sick of scrapping over which linux is better. I keep MEPIS off of non-MEPIS threads as I was told to in emails from certain mods so I expect others to do the same on my threads.

>I think it would be a pretty safe bet that he or anyone else here
>hasn't used antiX.
There's a bit of a difference between a "safe bet" and actually knowing something.

>it's just the way that he said it.
Don't be picky. The statement was true, was it not?

>He trolls almost every thread I post in.
If that were the case, I'm sure he would have already been banned by now.

You can pick nits but i would bet you that at the time of my original post at this forum I was the only antiX user with it installed to hard drive. That will change though . Wanna bet?