AntiX "Lysistrata", 7.0 Version Released
Morgantown, WV, US and Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct 29, 2007 -- MEPIS has announced the "Lysistrata" release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. 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
This version of AntiX 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, rox-filer, rox-desktop, idesk, lighttpd, Abiword, Gnumeric, Scite, Nano, Iceweasel, Sylpheed-claws, Pidgin, Xchat, streamtuner, mtpaint, xmms, gmplayer, synaptic, and brasero.
AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentuim II or equivalent AMD processors but not K5/K6 processors. After installation, even 32MB RAM has worked. The new ISO images are available in the 'released/antix' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and at the MEPIS public mirrors.
About Anti
Anti is a Brit living and working for the last 18 years as a teacher in Thessaloniki the second largest city in Greece. AntiX is remastered from MEPIS to give something back to the community and to work on boxes with 128MB RAM (It does work with 64MB RAM + 128MB swap). The name alludes to the ideas that it is supposed to be like antics (fun) and it is for antiques (ie older boxes). Plus anti is the nickname of the creator and maintainer of AntiX.
About SimplyMEPIS
SimplyMEPIS is a ready to go desktop operating system for PCs and Apple computers that have Intel or AMD 32 or 64 bit processors. It is easier than Vista and intuitive for XP and Win98 users. MEPIS includes all of the applications that most users need and want. SimplyMEPIS is designed to replace or work side by side with Vista or XP on PCs and OSX on Apple computers.
About MEPIS LLC
MEPIS LLC was founded in 2002 by computer industry veteran Warren Woodford to realize his personal vision for a version of Linux that was complete and secure, while also being easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. MEPIS also provides Linux, OSX, and Windows related senior business and systems analysis and cross-platform software development assistance to software companies and large corporations.
