Sunday, September 30, 2007

Test Release: MEPIS antiX 7.0 Beta 2

Excerpts from the release announcement.

MEPIS has announced the 7.0 beta 2 release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. The antiX web site is at antix.mepis.org and an antiX forum is hosted at www.mepislovers.org

AntiX 7.0 beta 2 is very similar to AntiX 6.5 except that it is built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: fluxbox and ice window managers, Abiword, Gnumeric, Leafpad, Scite, Nano, mtpaint, xpdf, Firefox2, Sylpheed-claws, Dillo, Links2, Xchat, gftp, Pan, Irssi, Snownews RSS reader, Gtk-Gnutella, bittorrent, flash, mozilla-mplayer, xmms, mplayer, gmplayer, Midnight Commander, rox-filer, xarchive and brasero.

AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentuim II or equivalent AMD processors.
Read the full release announcement here.
Download here.

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