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Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:06 am
by rokytnji.1
I get by using 16 internal drive for root "/" and then use a 64 gig SD card for /home on my antiX chromebook
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... o-install/
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harry@chromebook:~
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 384M 896K 383M 1% /run
/dev/mmcblk1p4 13G 4.9G 7.1G 41% /
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 968M 0 968M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk1p2 599M 288K 599M 1% /boot/efi
/dev/mmcblk0p1 57G 268M 54G 1% /home
harry@chromebook:~
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:32 am
by keos
Oh, that would be ideal, but I do not know neither the card selection nor the procedure ... I would not know how to do in order to install the system ...
For example, for this little machine, I ask you, could this be the card to use?:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme- ... 09X7C7NCZ/
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 11:28 am
by siamhie
keos wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:30 am
Without Xfce4,
I'm disabled, handicap ...
If your insistent on using a drive that only has 16GB and want the XFCE desktop as an installation medium
you can look into
openSUSE Tumbleweed XFCE. 4GB after install and updates.
* direct link was removed
Otherwise XFCE can be installed in antiX as I showed in post #9.
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siamhie@tumbleweed:~> inxi -b
System:
Host: tumbleweed Kernel: 6.10.5-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240825
Machine:
Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:
Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 3447
Graphics:
Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.20.0.0
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 driver: X: loaded: vmware
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: vmwgfx resolution: 1958x1312~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.1.3 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 18.1.8
256 bits)
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000
Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
driver: piix4_smbus
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 20 GiB used: 3.99 GiB (20.0%)
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.76 GiB used: 813 MiB (10.2%)
Processes: 226 Uptime: 0h 3m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.35
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:35 pm
by mxer
I have several distros that I have installed on 16GB M2 SSD drives....
Likely Void XFCE would suit your needs, takes just under 3GB disk space.
https://voidlinux.org/
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:09 pm
by rokytnji.1
keos wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:32 am
Oh, that would be ideal, but I do not know neither the card selection nor the procedure ... I would not know how to do in order to install the system ...
For example, for this little machine, I ask you, could this be the card to use?:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme- ... 09X7C7NCZ/
It'll work just fine. I formatted mine as ext 4 file system. You can use ext 2 . Might have to run a live gparted session though to run a check on file system from time to time as ext 2 though.
On the MX installer. Is there not a drop down menu for like /home, / , esp? All I did was click and point.
Grub went on esp partition on my install.
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:10 pm
by keos
On Distrowatch it says:
...rolling-release development model with daily updates ...
Does that mean I'll never have to upgrade to a higher version?
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 5:46 pm
by FullScale4Me
keos wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:10 pm
On Distrowatch it says:
...rolling-release development model with daily updates ...
Does that mean I'll never have to upgrade to a higher version?
If you don't mind the word 'stability' dropped out of the description!
Ask any Arch Linux user how often they have to do post-update repairs. Stability is why many choose MX Linux.
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:44 pm
by siamhie
keos wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 1:10 pm
On Distrowatch it says:
...rolling-release development model with daily updates ...
Does that mean I'll never have to upgrade to a higher version?
Linux Jargon Buster: What is a Rolling Release Distribution?
Rolling release is a model in which updates to a software are continuously rolled out, rather than in batches of versions.
The rolling release also comes at the cost of testing. You may have surprises when the latest update starts creating problem for your system.
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:45 am
by keos
I think it would be best to spend a little more $ and...
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-upgr ... chromebook
Well, I've tried other distros like Manjaro, Antergos in the past, I think it's called Endeavouros today, something like that, and I've seen that discounting the times I've broken them -- most of the time -- there have been moments when without doing absolutely anything those systems have 'sort of self-destructed' themselves, and that's why I've stayed with MX, until today...
But it seems that things have been changing a bit lately and there are distros like openSUSE Leap that claim to be very stable, in fact I'm trying it out.
Re: It is possible to get only Xfce4 in antiX?
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:35 am
by siamhie
keos wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:45 am
But it seems that things have been changing a bit lately and there are distros like openSUSE Leap that claim to be very stable, in fact I'm trying it out.
openSUSE Leap XFCE comes in at 8.3GB.
It's worth noting
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MX-23.3 XFCE= 11GB
antiX-23.1 XFCE= 8.5GB
Debian 12.6 XFCE= 9.7GB