Mepis Talk

[angryfirelord]

Now that Mepis has gone back to its Debian base, I'm going to play around with one of their beta CDs to see how they're doing. Mepis was the distro that got me hooked onto linux before I went to Ubuntu, which helps because the knowledge I got on Mepis applies to any Debian-based distro out there. Who knows, maybe I just might go back....

[kagashe]

I am downloading Mepis 8.0 beta. The iso is actually 7.9.80-beta but it will be released as Mepis 8.0.

It is based on Debian Lenny.

kagashe

[kagashe]

I have copied the contents of the iso on spare partition added following entry to /boot/grub.menu.lst

title Mepis 8.0 beta
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz init=/etc/init quiet vga=791 splash
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

and running the Live Mepis 8.0 beta and posting from its Firefox.

It is very nice

kagashe

[slammed87d21]

I run Ubuntu on my AAO, but I've never been ablt to set up madwifi on my Acer Aspire 4720Z so I just run Mepis on it since my wireless just works.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Well Mepis has always had GREAT hardware support, even now with it being a bit behind ubuntu in some areas Mepis is still a good contender for a good beginners distro.
I started on Mepis so its always been a favorite of mine

[handydan918]

Guess I would have to question the "behind Ubu" characterization.

The Mepis tools alone put Mepis in a class all it's own. Half of the posts on the noob forums here could be solved by development of tools for Ubu that do what the Mepis tools do, i.e., reinstalling X from the live cd, ditto GRUB, resetting /home/user defaults, etc.