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The stylisation, has been carried into the programming also. Rightly so, because a name is a name. If the OS has been named as ‘antiX’ with a capital X, then it has to be referred to as such. Thanks @Seaken64, for the analysis.
@Olsztyn, since I first noticed this thread of @Christophe, I had read a bit about extlinux, syslinux and isolinux on the web and was wondering if this method could be repeated with the same results using syslinux too, but didn’t have the knowledge and time to check that. Thanks for sharing your experiment with syslinux.
I had gathered this following info then. Just quoting it here for reference by other interested newbies who come here like I did.
The SYSLINUX Project is a suite of lightweight master boot record (MBR) boot loaders for starting up IBM PC compatible computers with the Linux kernel. EXTLINUX is a new syslinux derivative. EXTLINUX is typically used as a general-purpose bootloader, similar to LILO or GRUB. Since Syslinux 4, EXTLINUX has been merged with SYSLINUX. SYSLINUX is not normally used for booting full Linux installations since Linux is not normally installed on FAT filesystems. Instead, it is often used for boot or rescue floppy disks, live USBs, or other lightweight boot systems. ISOLINUX is generally used by Linux live CDs and bootable install CDs.