Straight from Thessaloniki the Greek developers of the GNU / Linux operating system antiX announced last week two new distribution releases, the stable edition of 15.1 and the first Alpha construction of the upcoming 16.
According to the release notes published in OS website antiX by one of its creators named anticapitalista, it seems that developers do not want to be related to the next-generation systemd init system like any other GNU / Linux operating system that adopts it.
And possibly, the upcoming 16 will have the SysVinit init system, so you will not find system-related packages such as libsystemd0 or udev-systemd.
Looking deeper into the Alpha version of the antX 16 operating system, we can see that it comes with a custom Linux 4.3 kernel. However, because Linux 4.3 has just reached the end of its life, antIX developers will eventually upgrade kernel packages to Linux 4.4 LTS (Long Term Support).
Among other new packages added to the 16 Alpha 1, we can see the 5 GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), the X.Org 7.7 screen server, the XTerm terminal emulator, the eLinks web browser. It is also worth mentioning that there are irssi IRC client, rsync remote sync utility, Ceni and DHClient for network connections, smxi / inxi scripts, as well as antX Live remaster and persistence scripts.
The 16 Alpha 1 is available for download via sourceforge site, as 64-bit and 32-bit ISO images.
From corresponding sourceforge website you can also download the new stable version of antX 15.1, which includes all the latest security patches and bug fixes that appeared after the 15 version.
And of course all versions are free and open source.
