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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. Re: Dumb distribition name: MEPIS by Atmchicago · · Score: 3, Funny

    I come from ancient Egypt, you insensitive clod!

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  2. Re:Good... by RetroGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well ok, but what happened to versions 1 through 2002, and 2003.1 through 2003.9?

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  3. Re:Good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget that for Gentoo you need major.minor.teeny.micro because everything's 5-10% faster!

  4. Re:Good... by FattMattP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hot and willing teeny updates want you to install them now!

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