MEPIS where came it from 1603

Up until the main machine started giving me problems, I used Mepis as my main distro all of the time. I installed others on differing parbreastions to play with them, but Mepis was the only thing I'd use full time.

I found it to be smooth and stable. It already had all of the stable-unstable-testing repositories (OK, most of them) listed, but they weren't all turned on by default. That was left to the user to decide.

I used all of the releases since they started putting it out until a couple of releases back. I just didn't see any reason to install a newer version lately.

Personally I like it far more than Mandrake and SuSE (the 2 most- recommended distros). I found it to be a little more advanced (for my needs, anyway) than Knoppix.

Once installed, it's pretty much Debian, like most of the others. But the initial part was better than most others I tried as far as ease of navigation, what was installed, etc.

The downside is pretty much the same as for most live CDs: Mepis-specific updates aren't too common. But once you've used it awhile, there isn't too much left that's Mepis-specific. A few icons and a tool or two.

Since I've had this laptop I've been using Kanotix. Mepis didn't feel quite right on it for some reason. Kanotix did. (It helped that Kanotix automatically found the bluetooth dongle I have, too, which none of the other live CDs I tried did. Now I just gotta find time to play around with it. That was a tiny part of it, though.) Mepis didn't feel quite right. That's about the only way I can think to describe it (at 1:20AM on a Sunday morning).

In any case, Mepis is one of the main live CDs I use to demo linux to people, even on the laptop. It's also one of the primary ones I've been giving away for more than a year.

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