14 DAY TRIAL // After one year of development, antiX MEPIS 11 has been released earlier today (May 3rd) on mirrors worldwide (see download link at the end of the article), available for 486 and 686 architectures).
Dubbed Jayaben Desai, the antiX MEPIS 11 operating system is a light, fast and very complete/flexible desktop Linux LiveCD based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing distributions. This version defaults to a completely customized icewm-Rox desktop environment.
"Just over a year since the release of antiX-M8.5, the antiX-team are pleased to announce that antiX MEPIS 11 'Jayaben Desai' - a fast, light, very flexible and complete desktop and livecd based on Debian Testing and SimplyMEPIS - is now available in full, base and core versions (for 686 and 486 kernel all using hybridiso)."
"This release defaults to a fully customised icewm-Rox desktop (fluxbox, wmii and dwm are also installed) using a SimplyMEPIS 2.6.36-4 kernel, our own assistants to help configuration, and the usual range of applications for desktop use." - was stated in the official release announcement.
Highlights of antiX MEPIS 11:
· Linux kernel 2.6.36-4 (MEPIS based); · X.org 7.5; · Fluxbox 1.3.1; · Better antiX-Control Centre (with new options); · New menu structure for IceWM and Fluxbox window managers; · Extended and improved themes for IceWM and Fluxbox window managers; · Extended localization for antiX apps; · Added Japanese, Korean and Chinese fonts (available on antiX-full ISO); · Added meta-installer to easily install LXDE, XFCE, KDE4 and GNOME desktop environments; · Thunar is now the default file manager, replacing PCManFM; · File-roller is now the default arvhiver, replacing Xarchive; · links2 has been replaced with elinks-lite; · lighttpd was replaced by Cherokee; · idesk was removed; · umtsmon was removed; · mpd/ncmpcpp/mpdpss was removed; · osmo was removed; · Added extra cheatcodes on the boot menu; · Updated the install-meta applications; · Added Vim; · Added umt-panel2 for GPRS/UMTS/3G connections; · Added SpeedCrunch; · Added Toshset; · Added prism2-usb-firmware-installer; · Added volumeicon; · Added fancy-prompts script; · Added Samba/pyneighborhood; · Added apt-show-versions; · Added cdw; · Added Zathura; · Ceni 2.21; · Rox-filer 2.10; · Iceape 2.0.13-1; · Abiword 2.8.6 · Gnumeric 1.10.14; · Goggles Music Manager 0.12.1; · wicd 1.7; · Pidgin 2.7.11.
