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January 3, 2026 at 11:09 am #193126
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    You can get even older versions here:

    https://archive.org/download/antiX_linux

    I’m pretty sure you will find that all the versions there, back to the original release from 2007 based on MEPIS 6.5, still work okay on modern systems. You could even install older, pre-antix versions of SimplyMepis.

    The main hitch will be kernel support for newer hardware components, so with the shipped kernels you’ll end up with basic VESA graphics modes, probably no audio, and possibly no support for an i2c touchpad, and so on. I think you might actually be able to drop in a newer kernel and it would just work, though I’ve never tried that myself with anything so old.

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