[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Samir Faci]

Almost useful?   I've had issues with Ubuntu's quirks driving me up
the wall.. just curious as to what Mepis adds that makes it almost
viable to use.

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Samir
On 2/2/07, sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com <sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:42:50 -0700
>   Mike Scott <mscott at pyewacket.org> wrote:
> > Has anybody heard of this distro?
> > http://www.mepis.org/
> >
> > It is supposedly based on Ubuntu but with KDE instead of
> >Gnome as the
> > default.
> > It is also supposed to have the ability to work with AD
> >
> > I saw it in an article comparing Linux to Vista (also a
> >good read):
> > http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9727687530.html
> >
> > - Mike Scott
> >
> >
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>
>
> Mepis predates Ubuntu by 4 or 5 years. It has always been
> a good debian based distro. Although, IMHO, not as nice as
> Libranet.
>
> Mepis was a small, mostly one man opertion, but Warren did
> a good job of putting things together. As the community
> grew, so did the Mepis team.
>
> For version 6, the Mepis team decided to base their distro
> on Ubuntu instead of vanilla debian. This lets them get a
> more stable release to base their upgrades on each year.
>
> Over all Mepis is one of the nicest commercial distros out
> there.
>
> For me Mepis makes Ubuntu almost useful, instead of
> frustrating.
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