Hello Dolphin 🐬 , just wanted to say that MX and Antix are my #'s 1&2 Distros Big Time since 2016 and totally enjoy your videos on them , Thank You for all of the information on them. Stay safe
MX and Antix, are two of the few distros available, that still provide a 32bit version, that is current, which is nice. RUclips playback is pretty good in Puppy Linux, as well, also at 360p. Sometimes 480p, is doable.
Thanks a lot for the effort to make Antix Linux more interesting for a lot of people who have a old pc or laptop somewhere I have a old crappie ones eeepc 4g and Acer with 1gbr ram Antiix 19 on a Dell Dimension C521 AMD Athlon X2 4gb ram, other Dell Dimension 5150 P 4 HT and old this old ones working-class computers
Thanks for posting, Gil! I also have a Dell Dimension 5150, but it's running MX right now. I'm thinking of switching to antiX instead. What has been your experience with antiX on this machine?
@@scottmyers1198 Hoi, Scott, my personally experience with Dell machines are very good, two things I am old 72 years that means my HD is very full(if you think all what you see, read,etc ) take place on your brain, the another one I am poor that means i don't have money for a fancy and modern pc. Dells like are work horses with a few more ram and clean you have a pc for years. I use them to test one OS, and another with all them work perfect, but AntiX and MX you think wou!!!! that is a really good one. And keep running with the DOLPHIN this man is a good to the point, if you have question look your question on one of the video's, you find the answer. Thanks you for read
Great vid mate!! I put MX Linux on one of those eeepc's for a work mate a number of years ago, I cannot remember which version, he's since retired not sure if he still uses it or not, it was his travel computer, it was running good enough with MX!! 👍
I’m running MX21 Linux on a MSI U100 Netbook is similar to the EEE Netbook and it works absolutely fine -Video watching and Mail stuff doing. Take care.
Lightweight WMs (like fluxbox, jwm and icewm) are something that reminds you how fast all software on your good old hardware should be, in contrary to "more and more hardware demanding software".
Excellent video. I have a n270 netbook and antix is the only viable option now. I would just add 2 things. Goto repos and install all realtek drivers to run your usb wifi sticks. I also would recommend installing bleachbit and clean about 1 gb of garbage after install.
Great video! Thanks! I also use the venerable "free" command to measure memory consumption. Another trick is the command: echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches This frees up as much buffer and cache memory as possible. It is particularly useful when testing memory consumption while running live to see how much memory is actually available. We made use of these two tools a lot when we were trying to keep memory consumption to a minimum on antiX. On my system now (uptime over a month) this freed up over 10 GiB while 1.6 GiB was still being used, 447 MiB of that was for tmpfs: df -m | grep tmpfs | awk '{sum += $3} END{print sum}' We also looked at the dmesg output. At some point we were able to tweak the kernel to give more free memory to the user but I don't know if this works/applies anymore. Our general strategy was to test test test (with numerical results) whatever we wanted to optimize, usually memory consumption and boot speed. Faster booting also meant faster testing.
Thanks for the great video Dolphin!!! Smtube is a solution for these machines.... i usually run mpv --ytdl-format=18 video url. This will play a video in 360....of course mpv and youtube-dl must be installed on your system...
On very low end equipment and/or where video quality is irrelevant and 144p will suffice use: mpv --ytdl-format=160+140 video-url Smtube's lowest resolution is 240p.
Great video. I’ve used both MX and Antix over the years. But on older machines, I prefer using Puppy, especially Slacko. The save function is easier to understand for me for some reason and I like running the OS completely from the usb stick.
antiX works better than any other distro I've tested in a VM. I haven't been able to get it installed on my hdd, but is easy to get onto a VM and flash drive. go figure. I found that on ANY OS or distro in a VM or flashdrive, Palemoon is the least likely browser to crash, though.
In 2019 I had to be hospitalized for a couple of months and I needed something portable. I had this eepc lying around and I hesitated between puppy, antix and..believe it or not, chrome os. I ended up with chrome os. Now, I needed something quickly, capable of doing more or less what my phone could do, given the, at the time, conditions. The MAIN reason why I put chrome os on it was wireless. Both pup and antix struggled with wireless. Choppy vids and such. But chrome os didn't glitch for a sec. I've been doing linux close to twenty years now and chrome os is the last thing I'd put on any rig, but, there we were. It all came down to wireless.
please consider uploading to a video site that isn't publicly-traded. trying to diversify so the control-freaks don't have so much control over me. yes, I will be watching you on a front-end
@@runwiththedolphin so then and i hope i got this right, the xfce mx linux is lighter than the fluxbox mx? im using 32bit on my oldie lap a dell 1525. i did run both fluxbox and xfce mx linux. granted it was not a speed king but it worked well... thanks!
I've got old Athlon 64 however only with 2 Gigs of RAM so 32 bit system its better for it. This PC has dedicated PCIE ATI graphics card with 256 MB dedicated video memory. What OS would you recommend for casual use Internet browsing, RUclips watching and Office suite use?
antiX will run better in general but in my experiments I found youtube in the browser was slightly better of MX. not sure why. note you'll need to manage expectations about what is possible with 2GB of ram. 1 to 3 tabs in firefox should be OK, but make sure to give yourself some swap to handle the occasionally out-of-ram condition you're bound to find yourself in. I run MX on very low spec netbook with 2GB of ram. its OK, if not super responsive.
@@runwiththedolphin Thank you, I'll check it out and see how it goes and might reply back if I encounter any serious issues. MX runs RUclips probably better because it has as you're suggesting better GPU acceleration than antiX but it might be some other reason. My test will also depend on the PCI-E SATA controller which gives this ancient PC of mine option to use SSD drive. Unfortunately this controller has drivers only for Windows so I really wonder if it will work in the Linux. Swap is indeed definitely very important with the 2 GB of RAM, but what size would you consider as sufficient? I suppose 10 GB partition size could be enough or not?
@@El.Duder-ino I use 2gb of ram on my low spec systems. I usually use one big partition rather than dividing up home and root on low spec systems, mostly because all my low spec systems ahve very small hard drives (16 gb) except for the eeepc, which has a slow 160 gb hard drive. I'f I'm not using much beyond the browser, 10gb is ok. I tend to go 30 on my production systems, with my data stored on other partitions. my smallest partition I currently have is 14 gb, and that's on a low end ideapad with only 16gb of storage internal.
@@runwiththedolphin Thx a lot! This will be definitely just "Webbrosing & Office machine" and not production system so I suppose 10-15 GB of space will be sufficient with the swap. The BIG question and risk is the SATA PCIE controller which might not be found, thus I won't be able to install it on the fast SSD connected to it. This is something I will know for sure after trying next week as this machine is not with me right now.
I don't know about a tablet. the UI on antiX isn't really set up for touch screens, but I suppose it could happen. I ran MX once on a Windows tablet of similar vintage
not in antiX. there is in MX but you have to enable it, its not enabled by default. in the notification settings you enable logging, then install the xfce4-notification plugin on the panel.
My problem is my Nvidia chipset on my Lenovo T61. I need the 5.4 kernel and the 340.108 Nvidia driver. I tried MX Linux 21 with the nouveau drive and it was horrible. My system has a dual core Pentium 64 bit processor and 4GB of RAM. It works fine with Linux Mint 20.3. Linux Mint 20.3 does have the 5.4 kernel and 340.108 drivers. Linux Mint 21 doesn't. Their is a ppa for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Mint 21 that integrates the 340.108 driver with the newer kernels. I just hate the idea of having to throw away a perfectly good Thinkpad just because of the stupid graphics chipset.
Just installed MX on my old laptop and it change from a slow machine as a snail, become as fast as ferrari. Thank you MX developers! Kudos!!
Hello Dolphin 🐬 , just wanted to say that MX and Antix are my #'s 1&2 Distros Big Time since 2016 and totally enjoy your videos on them , Thank You for all of the information on them. Stay safe
MX and Antix, are two of the few distros available, that still provide a 32bit version, that is current, which is nice. RUclips playback is pretty good in Puppy Linux, as well, also at 360p. Sometimes 480p, is doable.
Thanks a lot for the effort to make Antix Linux more interesting for a lot of people who have a old pc or laptop somewhere I have a old crappie ones eeepc 4g and Acer with 1gbr ram Antiix 19 on a Dell Dimension C521 AMD Athlon X2 4gb ram, other Dell Dimension 5150 P 4 HT and old this old ones working-class computers
Thanks for posting, Gil! I also have a Dell Dimension 5150, but it's running MX right now. I'm thinking of switching to antiX instead. What has been your experience with antiX on this machine?
@@scottmyers1198 Hoi, Scott, my personally experience with Dell machines are very good, two things I am old 72 years that means my HD is very full(if you think all what you see, read,etc ) take place on your brain, the another one I am poor that means i don't have money for a fancy and modern pc. Dells like are work horses with a few more ram and clean you have a pc for years. I use them to test one OS, and another with all them work perfect, but AntiX and MX you think wou!!!! that is a really good one. And keep running with the DOLPHIN this man is a good to the point, if you have question look your question on one of the video's, you find the answer. Thanks you for read
Great vid mate!! I put MX Linux on one of those eeepc's for a work mate a number of years ago, I cannot remember which version, he's since retired not sure if he still uses it or not, it was his travel computer, it was running good enough with MX!! 👍
I’m running MX21 Linux on a MSI U100 Netbook is similar to the EEE Netbook and it works absolutely fine -Video watching and Mail stuff doing. Take care.
Thank you for making these videos for the GNU/Linux community @DolphinOracle🐬 - MX Linux has chosen me as the user of it's choice :) !!!
Lightweight WMs (like fluxbox, jwm and icewm) are something that reminds you how fast all software on your good old hardware should be, in contrary to "more and more hardware demanding software".
Thanks for another informative video and, of course for two brilliant operating systems.
Excellent video. I have a n270 netbook and antix is the only viable option now. I would just add 2 things. Goto repos and install all realtek drivers to run your usb wifi sticks. I also would recommend installing bleachbit and clean about 1 gb of garbage after install.
32bit MX Linux runs decent too surprisingly
Great video! Thanks! I also use the venerable "free" command to measure memory consumption. Another trick is the command:
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
This frees up as much buffer and cache memory as possible. It is particularly useful when testing memory consumption while running live to see how much memory is actually available. We made use of these two tools a lot when we were trying to keep memory consumption to a minimum on antiX. On my system now (uptime over a month) this freed up over 10 GiB while 1.6 GiB was still being used, 447 MiB of that was for tmpfs:
df -m | grep tmpfs | awk '{sum += $3} END{print sum}'
We also looked at the dmesg output. At some point we were able to tweak the kernel to give more free memory to the user but I don't know if this works/applies anymore.
Our general strategy was to test test test (with numerical results) whatever we wanted to optimize, usually memory consumption and boot speed. Faster booting also meant faster testing.
Thanks for the great video Dolphin!!! Smtube is a solution for these machines.... i usually run mpv --ytdl-format=18 video url. This will play a video in 360....of course mpv and youtube-dl must be installed on your system...
On very low end equipment and/or where video quality is irrelevant and 144p will suffice use:
mpv --ytdl-format=160+140 video-url
Smtube's lowest resolution is 240p.
Greetings, thank you, I learn a lot from your presentation
Informative video, thanks.
Great video. I’ve used both MX and Antix over the years. But on older machines, I prefer using Puppy, especially Slacko. The save function is easier to understand for me for some reason and I like running the OS completely from the usb stick.
antiX works better than any other distro I've tested in a VM. I haven't been able to get it installed on my hdd, but is easy to get onto a VM and flash drive. go figure. I found that on ANY OS or distro in a VM or flashdrive, Palemoon is the least likely browser to crash, though.
Antix & MX are like u and the team, awesome, mind blowing but............but use with caution giggles
In 2019 I had to be hospitalized for a couple of months and I needed something portable. I had this eepc lying around and I hesitated between puppy, antix and..believe it or not, chrome os. I ended up with chrome os. Now, I needed something quickly, capable of doing more or less what my phone could do, given the, at the time, conditions. The MAIN reason why I put chrome os on it was wireless. Both pup and antix struggled with wireless. Choppy vids and such. But chrome os didn't glitch for a sec. I've been doing linux close to twenty years now and chrome os is the last thing I'd put on any rig, but, there we were. It all came down to wireless.
please consider uploading to a video site that isn't publicly-traded.
trying to diversify so the control-freaks don't have so much control over me.
yes, I will be watching you on a front-end
VERRY GOOD!!!!!!
maybe MX FLUXBOX instead of xfce? great video and very useful for me.
the mx implementation of fluxbox is good but its heavy compared to the antiX setup. more services running.
@@runwiththedolphin so then and i hope i got this right, the xfce mx linux is lighter than the fluxbox mx? im using 32bit on my oldie lap a dell 1525. i did run both fluxbox and xfce mx linux. granted it was not a speed king but it worked well... thanks!
@@JorgeGarcia-ne3ws the mx fluxbox setup uses less ram than the Xfce setup.
are you open to the idea of having a matrix room for the community ??
also, may I request to add AppImage packaging tools ??
I've got old Athlon 64 however only with 2 Gigs of RAM so 32 bit system its better for it. This PC has dedicated PCIE ATI graphics card with 256 MB dedicated video memory. What OS would you recommend for casual use Internet browsing, RUclips watching and Office suite use?
antiX will run better in general but in my experiments I found youtube in the browser was slightly better of MX. not sure why. note you'll need to manage expectations about what is possible with 2GB of ram. 1 to 3 tabs in firefox should be OK, but make sure to give yourself some swap to handle the occasionally out-of-ram condition you're bound to find yourself in. I run MX on very low spec netbook with 2GB of ram. its OK, if not super responsive.
@@runwiththedolphin Thank you, I'll check it out and see how it goes and might reply back if I encounter any serious issues. MX runs RUclips probably better because it has as you're suggesting better GPU acceleration than antiX but it might be some other reason.
My test will also depend on the PCI-E SATA controller which gives this ancient PC of mine option to use SSD drive. Unfortunately this controller has drivers only for Windows so I really wonder if it will work in the Linux.
Swap is indeed definitely very important with the 2 GB of RAM, but what size would you consider as sufficient? I suppose 10 GB partition size could be enough or not?
@@El.Duder-ino I use 2gb of ram on my low spec systems. I usually use one big partition rather than dividing up home and root on low spec systems, mostly because all my low spec systems ahve very small hard drives (16 gb) except for the eeepc, which has a slow 160 gb hard drive. I'f I'm not using much beyond the browser, 10gb is ok. I tend to go 30 on my production systems, with my data stored on other partitions. my smallest partition I currently have is 14 gb, and that's on a low end ideapad with only 16gb of storage internal.
@@runwiththedolphin Thx a lot! This will be definitely just "Webbrosing & Office machine" and not production system so I suppose 10-15 GB of space will be sufficient with the swap. The BIG question and risk is the SATA PCIE controller which might not be found, thus I won't be able to install it on the fast SSD connected to it. This is something I will know for sure after trying next week as this machine is not with me right now.
SMTube does a **much** better job playing YT than a browser, I agree. But, will it play a front-end or Odysee? haven't tried it yet.
i have a dell tablet with a atom processor and 4 GB. Do you think antix will run on it? Your channel is awesome!!
I don't know about a tablet. the UI on antiX isn't really set up for touch screens, but I suppose it could happen. I ran MX once on a Windows tablet of similar vintage
off topic question but is there a notification log anywhere, or some way of looking back through past notifications?
not in antiX. there is in MX but you have to enable it, its not enabled by default. in the notification settings you enable logging, then install the xfce4-notification plugin on the panel.
a more fair comparison would have been mx fluxbox vs antix
My problem is my Nvidia chipset on my Lenovo T61. I need the 5.4 kernel and the 340.108 Nvidia driver. I tried MX Linux 21 with the nouveau drive and it was horrible. My system has a dual core Pentium 64 bit processor and 4GB of RAM. It works fine with Linux Mint 20.3. Linux Mint 20.3 does have the 5.4 kernel and 340.108 drivers. Linux Mint 21 doesn't. Their is a ppa for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Mint 21 that integrates the 340.108 driver with the newer kernels. I just hate the idea of having to throw away a perfectly good Thinkpad just because of the stupid graphics chipset.
mx 21 has a 5.10 kernel and we do have 340 drivers packaged that will compile on it.
@@runwiththedolphin I'll give it another try. Maybe it didn't compile before because I was using the ahs iso with the later kernel.
@@bkovacs7 the 340 drivers won’t build on anything beyond the 5.10 kernel
Where can I get the MX stickers??
the ones I have are no longer made, but there are many on redbubble.com. just search for mx linux.
@@runwiththedolphin Awesome! Thank you :)
Is MX Linux SystemD free?
no. we default to sysVinit, but you can switch to systemd via the grub boot menu option.