Anti-x 14.3 LiveUSB features

[Werner P. Schulz]

Thank you for this comparison!

You mention the "hard-drive install option ". For many people in the MX & MEPIS forum the HD install is the standard and the use of antiX/MX as a Live system on CD or USB is the option. The other way to remaster is to create a snapshot of your HD installation and to build a new USB stick by "live usb".

For me the big advantage of antiX/MX is, it's a "rolling-release distro" and you have not the different version problem as with Knoppix.

"single partition configuration" - you can always use additional partitions: edit the '/etc/fstab' and use a sysmlink to this partition.

"analog desktop clock" - change the setting from analog to digital or use DateTime clock in the panel (and the panel for example at the top instead of at the left side).

Greetings Werner

[utu]

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Thank you for your comments, Werner.

The rolling release is a big improvement. However, I just found out
from anti himself that I cant upgrade the kernel with a liveUSB.

I'd be just as happy with a small non-persistence /home partition,
maybe not even squashed.

You can scale the analog clock simply by widening the Xfce panel width
just a little, so that's not really a problem.

My remaining hangup with MX is: I only have a hazy feeling for the configuration.
Somehow, I've remastered half a dozen times and it's still intact and working.

I don't know why the antis don't just copy Klaus' uefi scheme which allows
an either/or approach to legacy/uefi.

I have decoded the MX initrd.gz and put its init in geany for browsing.
Nice looking code by BitJam, about 4000 lines of bash. Still could use a
roadmap.

MX also has an aufs dependence like Knoppix which may be in danger if
aufs gets thrown out of the kernel.

[utu]

You mention the "hard-drive install option ". For many people in the MX & MEPIS forum the HD install is the standard and the use of antiX/MX as a Live system on CD or USB is the option. The other way to remaster is to create a snapshot of your HD installation and to build a new USB stick by "live usb".

I had in mind some comparison with Knoppix's 0wn 'HD install' which always required some caveats.
It is clear the MX 'live' approach is an extension of the poor-man's (HD) install as a means of making a LiveUSB.