Just wondering, what options do I have for 100% sid-compatible distros?
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I run antiX with the sid repos alone. Works great.
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I sit here with a pure sid, kde3.5, 64 bit machine, working perfectly. I have never written a script or compiled anything. smxi and Synaptic are all I needed. I am at a loss as to why anyone needs a "name" distro. Isn't linux about "doing your own thing"? Yep, I purged all traces of sidux from their distro and you are left with a working sid. I like kde and if/when they get 4.??? to my liking, I will update. I update every day with 23 packages on hold until I get what I want!
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dpkg -l | grep sidux | awk '{print $2}'

And remove sidux apps and you have Sid.

antiX-base will get you 99% Sid quickly.
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@sedonix
I'm curious as to which packages you have on hold. Can you please give us a listing?

Thanx

@anticapitalista
Since the security updates for Dapper LTS are going to expire in a few days, I'm considering changing my Mepis 6.5.02 box to a newer OS. Thinking the antiX base is an interesting start. Can you provide a link for the manifest? I'm also curious about your sources list. It's going to be a while before I can do some experimenting, and of course there's the famous Businesscard/Debian/smxi install. I'm thinking of revising my install method, maybe replacing the businesscard with antiX base. Things could get interesting.

edit: And maybe even more interesting with a liquorix kernel.
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I'm planning on using the same approach.
This formerly sidux box is currently running Kubuntu 9.04 with a bunch of ppa.launchpad stuff, which actually works out pretty well.

The problem being I feel like a Debian traitor.

I had a harddisk die on me a few weeks ago and was getting a little tired of the sidux structure forced upon my reinstall with the inability to use my existing /home users. The distro CD at that point had also fallen behind testing and I didn't really have the time to do the KDE update jig so I said f___ it and used the Kubuntu route as a quick fix.

Anyway it looks as if my work is going to get a little slow by the middle of next week :-( and I plan on returning this box to the Debian sid with smxi fold. :-)

After reading of the recent sidux turmoil I think these forums will attract even more traffic.

A kind of Debian based "non-distro" community formed around a set of modification/installation/maintenance/update scripts. A very interesting development, potentially ground breaking.

Keep up the good work h2 and once again thanks for your time and efforts.

UncleVom
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antix.mepis.com/index.php/Main_Page

antix.freeforums.org/index.php



There are more but this all that's in use. I also use a Liquorix kernel regularly which works perfectly.
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Ok so let me get this straight. I don't want to re-install anything, but there's a way to (switch if you will) from sidux to something else? I've run anti-x in the past just went to something else when I got a faster computer (ok ok I know I know) anyway maybe it's time to come back...Everything I have is working after some work, but I'm not liking the way things are heading from sidux. Thanks.
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www.mepisimo.com/antix/installed-M8-base.txt

for list of apps in antiX-M8-base.

antiX-M8.2-base will be ready in a short while and it is a better choice as it removes mepis-init so antiX is more Debian compliant.
(Removing mepis-init via apt-get will render your antiX unbootable as mepis-init removes some files)

The advantage of starting with antiX-base is that it sets up X easily and install is a doddle. The disadvantage is that it doesn't use the standard Debian way to configure X, fstab grub, but MEPIS. This can be changed on install of course.
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Ok anti thanks. For now I'll follow your advise in the other post and worry about changing later.
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