The antiX project has announced the availability of antiX-19.1, latest bug fix cum update snapshot in antiX-19.x series. It is an incremental update, hence no need to perform a fresh installation of you are already running on antiX-19.

Multitasking in antiX-19.1 Multitasking in antiX 19.1

The antiX-19.1 release is based on Debian Buster and it is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. This release is coming in the following variations.

  • antiX-full (c1.1GB) – 4 windows managers – IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm plus full libreoffice suite.
  • antiX-base (c700MB so fits on a cd) – 4 windows managers – IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm.
  • antiX-core (c350MB) – no X, but should support most wireless.
  • antiX-net (c140MB)- no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build.

The main highlights in antiX-19.1 release are briefed below.

  • Linux Kernel 4.9.200
  • Firefox browser updated to 68.3.0esr-1
  • IceWM upgraded to latest upstream version (1.6.3)
  • elogind upgrade to 241.3
  • feh without yudit dependency
  • tomb version 2.7
  • disk-manager included
  • ceni network manager included, but connman is default
  • various security upgrades

For more information, see the antiX-19.1 official release announcement.

antiX 19.1 screenshots