We are a systemd free linux community

Edited again: 2018-11-15

As the previous site started out (08/2017) of the temporary need for Artix users to meet and exchange experiences, share solutions to problems, now that Artix has its official site, we have decided to move in the direction the site had already taken anyway.  Freedom and equality of access and exchange of information.

Antix is to Debian what Obarun is to Arch, and Devuan is to debian what Artix is to arch.  Such projects/distributions seem to be very promising in concept and execution.  Equally promising, if not more, is Void and Adélie linux taking an independent path.  Unfortunately we can not cover the progress of too many distros and at times we may have to drop a few from the list and concentrate on the few we believe there is future and hope.  We have dropped Devuan over a year ago due to serious doubts with the project’s management, and now we have decided Artix has to go too.

The new installer is here – along with new live images Obarun 11/2019

Other than the usual refinements on the 66 service management system, Obarun has radically revised the installer.  It is no longer mandatory to do partition work and mounting before you run the installer, it can be arranged from within the installer.  You can choose between EFI or bios booting, between grub and syslinux bootloader, the Desktop flavor (JWM, openbox, xfce4, KDE-plasma, or minimal no X), use arch-mirrorlist ranking for the fastest mirrors to your site, customize the installation if you want to add or not install packages (obarun, arch, and AUR).

A milestone of publicity for sysdfree

100.000 unique visits to the site since the start, about 25months ago

100000 visits since the start

How to move your antiX 17 to antiX 19 (stretch to buster)

We are not making this up, the chief developer of antiX says it can be done this way.  What we think?  Just as expected!

—— cut and paste from the antiX forum https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/upgrading-antix-17-to-antix-19/  ————–

This is what I did to upgrade antiX-17.4.1 pristine (ie nothing added nor removed) to antiX-19.
Make sure all your valuable data is backed up.
You may want to use iso-snapshot to create an iso of your present install and test the newly created snapshot does boot and install … just in case things go wrong.

This guide will not produce an identical antiX-19, but I assume most people want to upgrade from ‘stretch – old stable’ to ‘buster – new stable’ and are less concerned about the looks, themes etc.

If you try this and it breaks your install, don’t blame me! <anticapitalista>

Use a root terminal and not synaptic and do READ the output before pressing Enter.

Where to move to after Arch-Linux-based non-systemd systems?

VD, HIV, STD, Zstd

The deeper issue here is “what is the relationship of Arch-Linux and Orwell?”

Two of the most common intrusive sites reported by linux users that are placed on top of the list of a firewall, so nothing goes in and out between their machine and those sites’ servers, are Google and Facebook.  Google on the one hand, in order to play nice against the free/open software community, has been contributing resources, information, and free/open software to improve their image.  MS purchased github, IBM purchased RedHat, or should we say they made their relationship more formal.  Some developers have fallen for it.  Facebook on the other hand is notorious of flooding the machines of their innocent and unsuspecting users with questionable code.  Facebook not only knows who you really are, what you really like, what you think and what you are interested in, in the vast majority of cases they know in real time your exact location and may even have the capability of keeping track of your moves.  Simply if you have an account on facebook and accessed it once through your “smart” phone, they know.  If you access facebook from your desktop, but on smart phone you only use your google account, they know.  They, they, who is they?  If you are really asking we can go on comments for as far as you can take it.

Are you confused about debian/antiX/MX/devuan/Refracta editions?

Debian 10 Buster became stable a few months ago, the rest of the systems had to follow but took their time.  This is done every two years and creates a wave of confusion, especially those on forked versions of Debian, like antiX, MX, devuan, refracta, etc.  Even more dangerous and confusing it is if you are using testing and although testing during debian stretch was buster it now becomes bullseye, while your antiX/MX/Devuan is testing alongside Buster still.

After antiX announced 19 (Marielle Franco) as its current stable branch, MS followed its mothership the week later (a few days ago), while Devuan/Refracta are still chasing Stretch (Debian 9), what they call Devuan 2 or ascii.

So here it is, to take the confusion away from numbers and names:

Debian         *   Debian       *  AntiX/MX   *  Devuan
the last good1 *   7   Wheezy   *    13       *  0  beta-testing
old old stable *   8   Jessie   *    15       *  1 jessie (old-stable)
old stable     *   9   Stretch  *    17       *  2 ascii (stable)
stable         *  10   Buster   *    19       *  3 beowulf(testing)
testing        *  11   Bullseye *    21       *  4 chimaera (next testing)
unstable       *       sid      *    sid      *       ceres

obarun-install and 66 updates

1  Can a good thing get better, and by how much?  Wasn’t 66-info good enough, transparent enough, detailed enough?  It was. It is no more.  Gone!

2  Wasn’t the Obarun-Install software one of the attractions in Obarun, I thought, was the precision and ease of the installer.  Gone (will be in a few days)!

1 66-intree & 66-inservice
One of the most used tools in the 66 suite of software was 66-info.  66-info -T gave information about service trees, and 66-info -S gave information about a particular service, its status, its configuration, its environment, etc.  Really useful tools that we lacked in most other init and service managers.  Well, it is gone, deprecated, dead and forgotten.  BUT WHY?

antiX release 19 Marielle Franco

Marielle Franco  antiX 19

Rarely a good deed goes unpunished, especially when someone is trying to do something good for the benefit of the many, the weak, the poor, those who are lacking power, against all odds, the rich and powerful of every society. The story of Marielle Franco is a reminder to those who forget in whose world we live in and what it takes to change it.

So antiX 19 is code-named after the late Marielle Franco who dared to turn against wealth and power.

antiX-19 is based on Debian Buster and is as systemd-free as it has always been.  As usual it offers the following systemd-free flavours for both 32 and 64 bit architectures: