Brian Masinick
@PPC GREAT to hear from you. I’ve been configuring and reconfiguring some of my personal stuff recently, and though I use MOSTLY antiX, some of that reconfiguring involves installing a few other distros – after all, I’m a retired techno geek software engineer, so I enjoy that stuff. I installed Slackware CURRENT for a little while then replaced it with a fairly popular distribution in the Arch Linux space – Cachy OS.
I finally smoothed it out so I can play with it when I get bored, so now I’m back to my antiX stuff; this release is the culmination of stuff that several of us have experimented with for at least two years. The gentleman that goes by the handle of @ProwlerGr first approached this forum in 2024 and shared with us multiple builds that he called
“init-diversity”. This has turned out to be one of the initiative of the antiX 26 release.
The good thing about it is that our two stable setups, runit and sysVinit are the two defaults; the one that gets booted unless the choice is altered or moved is runit, but this runit actually implements real runit services for the first time and it’s very good. Now it’s a legitimate choice for anyone, yet sysVinit remains available.
Anyway this version 26 has now been out and released for almost a month now and it’s quite solid. I hope we see you around every now and then; I miss our interaction.
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Brian Masinick
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