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Re: AntiX wifi

From	Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.ubuntu, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: AntiX wifi
Followup-To	alt.os.linux
Date	2016-11-02 11:15 -0700
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x-posting this to aol and f/ups there; as it isn't Ub.

Mike Easter wrote:
> I'm trying to get antiX 16 wifi up on an Acer AO722 (cpu AMD C-60, 4G
> ram) which has  wifi Atheros chipset and driver ath9k.  The enhanced
> XFCE interface of MX-15 works fine for the wifi.

The wifi issue is solved; I continue tinkering with the live MX & antiX.

Some remarks about the evolution of antiX 16 and MX 15, where antiX 
deftly uses lightweight interface such as IceWM and RoxFiler and clever 
.py tools and MX 15 is 'antiX-based' Mepis community supported and has 
an XFCE 4.12 DE.

Warren Woodford released Mepis 2003 as a KDE Debian.  In 2006 he 
transitioned to Ubuntu base. 2007 anticapitalista released antiX fork 
optimized for low resource hardware.

2007 Dec Woodford shifted to Mepis repos derived from both Deb & Ub. 
MepisLite and SimplyMepis and ProMepis emerged 10 or so years ago, with 
SimplyMepis releases continuing until 2011 May.

DistroWatch currently classifies SimplyMepis as dormant, which means 
that there hasn't been a new release in the last 2 years.  Mepis 11.x 
released 2013 Aug in 32/64 is available for dl, a KDE4.

Meanwhile antiX releases are considered DW active, and its 'offspring' 
aided by the Mepis community is the XFCE Debian based MX, which releases 
have been going on since 2014 MX-14, which MX doesn't have a separate DW 
entry.

So, Mepis DW section is dormant, activeX is active, and MX is considered 
antiX.  Another area of confusion for me is are different descriptions 
of whether the Debian repos are testing or stable; I'm currently going 
with/ thinking/ testing.

-- 
Mike Easter

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AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 04:12 -0700
  Re: AntiX wifi Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-27 09:44 -0400
    Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 07:27 -0700
      Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 08:45 -0700
        Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 09:39 -0700
          Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 10:33 -0700
            Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 14:16 -0700
              Re: AntiX wifi Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-27 17:23 -0400
                Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 15:22 -0700
                Re: AntiX wifi Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-27 18:58 -0400
              Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 14:53 -0700
              Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 15:58 -0700
                Re: AntiX wifi Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-10-27 23:07 +0000
                Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 17:08 -0700
                Re: AntiX wifi Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-10-28 00:37 +0000
                Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-27 17:53 -0700
                Re: AntiX wifi Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-10-28 06:37 +0000
  Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-10-30 07:20 -0700
    Re: AntiX wifi Skippy Fandango <skippyfandango@ultvok.org> - 2016-10-30 10:29 -0400
      Buh bye Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-30 12:40 -0400
        Re: Buh bye Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-30 18:39 +0000
        Re: Buh bye GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-10-30 21:44 -0600
        Re: Buh bye Skippy Fandango <skippyfandango@ultvok.org> - 2016-10-31 21:21 -0400
          Re: Buh bye Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-11-01 01:33 +0000
  Re: AntiX wifi Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-11-02 11:15 -0700

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