{"id":227000,"date":"2026-03-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/debian-13-in-bonsai-form-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:25:12","slug":"debian-13-in-bonsai-form-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/debian-13-in-bonsai-form-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian 13, in bonsai form \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/24\/antix_26_bonsai_trixie\/\">Debian 13, in bonsai form \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/24\/antix_26_bonsai_trixie\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/24\/antix_26_bonsai_trixie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it&#8217;s able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs \u2013 and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.<\/p>\n<p>AntiX 26 &#8220;Stephen Kapos&#8221; is the newly updated version of antiX, based on last year&#8217;s Debian 13 &#8220;Trixie&#8221; release. There are a lot of Debian-based meta-distributions to choose from, but antiX is more unlike its upstream than almost any other Debian-based distro.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 release offers a choice of two kernels: the old but still supported 5.10, or the slightly newer kernel 6.6. Unlike Debian itself, it still offers a 32-bit edition, which uses the older kernel version. We looked at the previous release, the Debian 12-based antiX 23, all the way back in September 2023, and we noted then that it had a confusing 16 different options available to download. In antiX 26, this has been simplified down to just four: the choice now is Full or Core, 32-bit or 64-bit, and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Although BunsenLabs Carbon, which we looked at earlier this month, has a simpler, lighter-weight desktop, apart from that it&#8217;s still Trixie, systemd and all. The Debian 13 codename comes from a cartoon Triceratops, and those were neither slim nor light. Bunsenlabs&#8217;s use of Openbox means that it takes just over half a gigabyte of RAM, but antiX 26 needs less than half as much: about 200\u00a0MB.<\/p>\n<p>As we said when we looked at Devuan 6 last November, &#8220;This is essentially the same OS as Debian 13, but with Agent P&#8217;s sprawling &#8216;system and service manager&#8217; surgically removed.&#8221; Devuan no longer offers GNOME \u2013 that desktop is explicitly introducing stronger dependencies on systemd \u2013 but Devuan still offers KDE Plasma, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/23\/antix-26-jwm.jpg?x=648&#038;y=405&#038;infer_y=1\" width=\"648\" height=\"405\" alt=\"antiX 26 with the slightly simpler JWM and ROX Filer, using 197\u00a0MB \" title=\"antiX 26 with the slightly simpler JWM and ROX Filer, using 197\u00a0MB \"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is not the case in antiX. Some other distros remove systemd but add other packages to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/24\/antix_26_bonsai_trixie\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debian 13, in bonsai form \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/24\/antix_26_bonsai_trixie\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-24 07:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/24\/shutterstock_2199689367.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71],"class_list":["post-227000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227002,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227000\/revisions\/227002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}