Mepis AntiX 7.01: Light, fast, and geeky.
I was recommended this distribution by a user on LinuxForums. Some of my favorite distributions both good and bad have come to me this way.
Although technically an off-shoot of Mepis Linux (which is in itself an offshoot of Debian, then Ubuntu, now Debian again I think) AntiX bears little visual resemblance to its parent.
Install:
I have a confession to make. When I saw the minimalistic desktop for the first time (gkrellm monitor and all) I got a little geeky chill. It reminded me of a simpler time, which for me was in college, when I ran a minimal Gentoo install with the Blackbox window manager and wrote C++ programs day and night.
Minimalist distros have always had a special place in my heart because of that time. AntiX was off to a good start. I perused around the Fluxbox menus and launched the installer, which shows its ties to Mepis quite starkly. I set my partitioning options and I was off. The installer was plain, but intuitive.
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