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Yet Another Debian-based Distro: Mepis

Posted by michael on from the hey-debian,-look,-acpi,-how-about-that dept.

emgarf writes "Today, on the first anniversary of the MEPIS Project, MEPIS LLC announced the release of MEPIS Linux 2003.10 for Pentium processors. MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux that is designed for both personal and business users. MEPIS Linux offers a live/installation/recovery CD, advanced automatic hardware configuration, XP/NTFS support, ACPI power management, WiFi support, personal firewall, KDE 3.1.4, OpenOffice 1.1, Mozilla 1.5, and much more."

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  1. Yet another bloated mess by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    While its nice people are working on making debian ( the one last hold out of common sence and anti-commercialism ), why does it have to include everyting + the kitchen sink?

    What about a distro that just has what the average person needs.. no bloat, no extra crap.
    ( sort of like what FBSD does.. but make it more friendly to the new user )

    Sure, give them the OPTION of 12000 packages once they 'grow up', but dont shove them down the users throat from the start..

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