antiX is a Debian-based distribution engineered to stay usable on computers most systems gave up on long ago. It boots without systemd, offering sysVinit or runit instead, and its desktops are lightweight window managers, with IceWM, Fluxbox, and JWM among the choices, rather than a full desktop environment. The project is closely related to MX Linux, which grew from a collaboration between the antiX and former MEPIS communities, and it continues to publish 32-bit images alongside 64-bit ones. A signature strength is its live-USB tooling: persistence, remastering, and frugal installs are all supported, so many people run antiX permanently from a flash drive or keep it as a rescue system. RAM requirements are strikingly low. Package management is Debian's APT with antiX's own repository on top. Loading it in an OpenFactory VM gives you a feel for just how light a modern Linux can be.
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