PPC
I’m not a Developer, Marcelo, but let me try to help you out with your suggestions:
1- I guess making such Iso would be too much work, also it would probably be out of date the very next day… Read more on how to achieve almost that for yourself on point 3…
2- All 3 default Desktops antiX offers use about the same ammount of RAM. What the anticapitalista did was choosing a default Desktop that looks and feels a bit more familiar to most users ( IceWM with Rox File Manager running to allow for Desktop icons). Believe me- if antiX did’t allow for desktop icons out of the box most users would compain that “I have no icons!!! antiX sucks!”. Users can use the menu to select the “minimal” version of the desktop they like best and save some meg’s of RAM
3- Ok, if you have no broadband internet connection having a up to date system and installing new applications can be next to impossible. But there are ways around that, that the Debian folks thought about: apt-offline (and apt-offline-gui)- allow you to use a computer with internet access to download all the files you need and then, copy them somewhere (pen drive or cd/dvd-rom) and install them in the unconnect systems… If you have antiX installed in computers without internet connectivity, as long as they all have the same version of the OS and the same installed applications, you can for example, use apt-offline to get the latest LibreOffice or Gimp versions, save those packages and install them in all your off line computers!
Think of it as your own personal “Off-line Repository”! (see detailed instructions here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/835655/install-a-program-with-apt-offline)
There are some other options to do the same thing, like http://launchpad.net/cube-server.
Please note that I fotunatly never had the need to use any of that software for myself, but I’ve used this method:
http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/apt-get-offline
4- About universal packages:
Appimages – they run out of the box- just make them executable and run them, no extra support necessary!
Flatpak’s – yes, the user has to install the flatpak application, and then install all the basic dependencies (many hundreds of Megs of files- you see why antiX does not support flatpak’s out of the box?)
Snaps- snap files can’t be installed in antiX, not because of the Dev’s made that choice- but because Snaps need a Operanting System that is managed by systemD, that is not antiX’s case, and that’s partly the reason why antiX is to light on resources!
5- I’ve been using antiX for about 3 years now, since version 16, and the only thing that I noticed made it use more resources, can be turned off and was only added because of “popular demand”- the automatic system uptader (I don’t use it myself, but I guess it uses about some 20 meg of RAM). This means that I’ve been running an up to date Debian system on all my computers (my office’s desktop, my home desktop and also a 10 year’s old netbook Atom single core with 1 gig of RAM) for the last 3 years and I never noticed any increase on system resources usage (I believe antiX 19 uses about 1 meg of RAM more than the previous version- can users of other Operating Systems say the same?)
P.
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