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Yet Another Debian-based Distro: Mepis
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."
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind - I'm sure. But does anybody know a list, that is complete as possible? I know only a list of CD-Live-distros at knoppix.net .
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Click Here for the reason this distribution is called MEPIS.
I just gotta say, that's the most obscure, and possibly one of the dumbest distro names ever. Okay, Yggdrasil was slightly more obscure, but in a cool way.
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The idea that the chosen defaults for RH, Mandrake, etc. take away control is absurd. You can still logon to root and hack them into a debian box, or even Gentoo. You just have to know how. You can build all your packages from source with "l33t" compiling options (however much they actually erode performance), as well as install within a chroot environment, as per LFS.
Really, Gentoo users often perceive that Gentoo is giving them control, when actually Gentoo is just making easier the same advanced tasks that you can do on any other distribution.
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Ideally, you can install different major numbers side-by-side (this isn't always the case; look at freetype), and you can easily tell if an update will have any negative impact on your system.
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Lets swap knowledge and educate eachother:
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rpm -qf
tells me which package an installed file belongs to, very useful.
dpkg -S
Very basic simple functionality.
Use the experimental x86 livecds with GNOME, KDE, and fluxbox, and you can have a complete desktop while installing Gentoo. On modern machines the process only takes about a day or two to get into your own system if you don't want to just stay on the livecd until you have your favorite desktop installed (KDE will take quite some time longer). Besides, USE flags are not the only thing that enables customization in Gentoo. Pick and choosing what you install is real nice, even if it's not as fine-tuned as making use of the, well, USE flags. :)
"We invented personal computing." - Bill Gates
Oh by the way you can get the livecds here. I recommend the one named livecd-2.4.21-kde-gnome-distcc-07-15-2003.iso.
"We invented personal computing." - Bill Gates
No, you're not wrong. Redhat is primarily a gnome distro. In order to make bluecurve work, they've modified both kde and gnome to look very similar, in effect creating a 'middle ground' that is uniquely redhat, i.e. bluecurve.
It has to be said, they broke a lot more kde than they did gnome, but then, they have a lot more experience with it than kde.
If you want a commercial kde based distro, go with SuSE. They are very much backers of kde, and will do it right. Gnome on suse though is *shudder*
Mandrake, is fairly agnostic, in that it provides a pretty much unmodified gnome and kde, with the mandrake extra config tools on top, and a galaxy theme that is pretty similar on both.
Gentoo provides kde and gnome 'as is' without giving you any gui tools at all on top.
Fraid I don't use any other distros, so can't comment on their policies.
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Wrong! up2date is a dependency resolution tool for RPM. There is also apt4rpm, apt-rpm, urpmi, redcarpet, and yum. In my experience, redcarpet rug cli is the fastest of these.
Also, dpkg has an advantage over RPM in that it allows the packager to specify suggested packages for each package, so somebody who is installing software via apt will not only see the dependencies, but suggested additional software.
It hardly seems fair to say it has NTFS support when what it really means is it can use NTFS read-only. Like Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandrake, and God only knows how many other distros.
I have my transfer estimate varying from one day to about four days, so I can't do it either. I found a mention of the following mirrors at:
/ /gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/mepis/u wien.ac.at/opsys/linux/mepis ...but still nothing using BitTorrent... Anybody???
http://www.mepis.org/node/view/208/708
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/mepis/
http:
rsync://gd.t
Of those, Partimagelooks the most promising to me, though I still haven't had the chance to try it.
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I have been using partimage for over a year now. I use it at the primary school of my daughter where I do most of the computer stuff as volunteer. I burned a rescue cd from timo's rescue cd with a few minor changes (root password and simple script to connect to network).
Once on the network there I made some simple scripts that can partition the disk, restore a MBR, and then restore a image for each partition using partimage. The scripts can use simple partition and image information from a specified directory. Works like a charm, especially the possibility to script it in total and restore individual partitions. We had a guy on internship who went "Linux, that sound scary", but when he restored his first image he said "is it that simple?".
As for NTFS support of partimage, I use it all the time without any problems.
One of the partitions, that is restored by partimage contains a small debian install. It is hidden by LILO which immediatly boots windows 2000, and not really used at the moment. I plan to use it in future to make a simple image restore possible even for teachers. Always nice to know there is some real Linux power hidden on these 80 desktops.
Actually, apt/dpkg still has a number of advantages over apt/RPM or yum/RPM.
1) APT uses a text database, unlike RPM which uses a binary database. This makes fixing errors much easier, and also makes it harder to corrupt the database. For example, recently, one of the xfce libraries refused to uninstall in Debian sid. I was able to just go to the apt directory, and modify the appropriate removeal script so the package uninstalled cleanly. Doing this in RedHat would be much harder. Also, I've had my RPM database corrupted once or twice (--rebuild fixed it both times, though), while I've never had a Debian database corruption.
2) Its closely tied to the configuration system Debconf. That means that packages that require extra configuration (XFree, font packages, etc) have one integrated configuration system.
3)Dpkg allows the packager to specify recommended packages.
4) There are a lot of nice developer tools for Dpkg that let you write policy-compliant packages more easily.
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