14 DAY TRIAL // The Lysistrata release of antiX, the lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0, was announced today by MEPIS. AntiX was built and it is maintained by the community member anticapitalista, as a free version for older 32 bit PCs.
This new version of antiX is built on the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core, with the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, but it has an other set of default applications. You can choose between the two window managers, Fluxbox and IceWM, depending on your preferences. Rox-filer, rox-desktop, idesk, lighttpd are some other default packages from antiX Lysistrata.
You will have Abiword and Gnumeric for your office needs, and the lightweight nano text editor will help you out when you don't want to use a pretentious application for your simple tasks. For Internet browsing, you get Iceweasel, and Sylpheed-claws for e-mails. Pidgin instant messenger and Xchat will let you talk with your friends and have some chatting sessions on any IRC server.
Synaptic will help you out with installing/removing packages from your system and for your multimedia experience, the developer included xmms, gmplayer and brasero. Mtpaint is an application where you can test your drawing abilities freely, also included by default in the distribution.
Those of you with old computers should be happy to know that AntiX is designed to work on computers with 64MB of RAM and Pentium II or equivalent AMD processors. If you have an AMD K5 or K6, the distribution won't work well, or might not work at all.
The developer of AntiX is a British guy, working for the last 18 years as a teacher in Thessaloniki, Greece. The name of the distribution alludes to the ideas that it is supposed to be like antics (fun) and it is for antiques (older computers). Anti is also the nickname of the creator and maintainer of AntiX Linux.
You can download right now AntiX Lysistrata from Softpedia!