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A distribution for less-powerful systems: antiX-12A distribution for less-powerful systems: antiX-12Posted Aug 17, 2012 22:14 UTC (Fri) by pdewacht (subscriber, #47633)Parent article: A distribution for less-powerful systems: antiX-12
Oh wow, ROX-Filer. That's a blast from the past. I wonder why I stopped using it, I remember really liking it.
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Yes rox-filer is nifty Posted Aug 21, 2012 7:27 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]
rox-filer has been very useful in converting a family member from Mac OS 9 to Linux. Turned it into an app launcher that is reminiscent of Mac OS 9 by creating a hierarchy of directories with symlinks to apps in each category, and also a desktop icon that starts up rox-filer at the toplevel directory. Then you can navigate around the various categories and launch apps with a single click, or drag a file onto the appropriate app icon and have the app open it. She much prefers this interface over the wavy dock-like thingy in Mac OS X.
A distribution for less-powerful systems: antiX-12 Posted Aug 23, 2012 9:21 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] ROX-Filer had its desktop stored in an XML file which meant that "a file I copied from that diskette you just formatted" might leave nothing more than an equivalent of a symlink... other than that, it's really nice and usable.Shameless plug: there's an ALT Linux based Antique distro geared towards Russian users but being tested on 64M systems as well; a crop of console based minimalistic distros; and some of the *really* old but still alive and useful systems might continue to work as ALTSP thin clients (starting from Pentium 75/16M).
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