antiX-25-full-beta1 available for public testing

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2025

Here is the first beta iso of antiX-25 (64bit).

Bullet point notes for now.

* based on Debian 13 ‘trixie’
* 4 modern systemd-free init systems – runit (default), s6-rc, s6-66 and dinit
* new default look
* usual ‘antiX magic’
* you *should* be able to boot live in the non-default init and it *should* then become the default after install.

Please note that user intervention will be required more than previous versions of antiX, especially if not using the default runit option.
This means that users will need to add any needed service files for the init they are using eg network-manager will also need runit-service-network-manager (and the equivalents for dinit, s6-rc and s6-66 if available).

Test it out and post feedback in the thread at the forums.

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