AntiX MEPIS 8.5 Comes with New Tools for USB Installs

The antiX has announced the release of antiX MEPIS 8.5, a lightweight Linux distro aimed at older hardware and live environments. It comes with several desktop and window manager options and frugal apps for the most common computing tasks, Internet browsing, multimedia, and so on. It also comes with several new features making an interesting choice as a live USB install. You can set up a persistent home for the live environment, remaster the read-only components ‘on the fly,’ and the antix2usb tool should make it easy to install it on USB flash drives.

“9 months since the release of antiX-M8.2, the antiX-team announce that antiX MEPIS 8.5 'Marek Edelman' - a fast, light, flexible and complete desktop and livecd based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing - is now available in full and base versions (686 and 486 kernel). This release defaults to a fully customised icewm desktop (fluxbox, wmii and dwm are also installed) using a SimplyMEPIS 2.6.32-11 kernel, tweaked MEPIS Assistants for better compatibility in antiX and the usual range of applications for desktop use,” the antiX team wrote in the official announcement.

Highlights of antiX MEPIS 8.5:

· Linux kernel 2.6.32-11 from MEPIS;
· X.org 7.4;
· ROX-filer 2.10;
· Fluxbox 1.1.1
· Wicd 1.7 with Wicd-ncurses;
· Pidgin 2.6.5;
· Ceni 2.7;
· Dillo2;
· antix2usb gui;
· Persistence and 'remaster on the fly then install feature;'
· MEPIS tools updated;
· Dependency based booting;
· Ext4 option now available;
· New icewm/fluxbox menu structure;
· New artwork for both iceWM and Fluxbox;
· Better localization of antiX apps;
· IceApe replaces IceWeasel as the default web browser;
· Sysv-rc-conf replaces Rcconf;
· System-config-printer replaces GtkLP;
· Gamix replaces aumix;
· Asunder replaces Gnormalize;
· Geeqie replaces GQview;
· Meta-installer for the KDE4, XFCE, LXDE and GNOME desktop environments;
· MPD, NCmpcpp, Mpdpss added;
· Gxine, apvlv, dwm and dmenu, wmii, Imagination Slideshow added;
· Smbc included for samba shares;
· pyNeighborhood added to install-meta;
· Extra cheatcodes at boot menu;
· Cdw and aptitude removed.

antiX MEPIS 8.5 is available for download here on Softpedia.