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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:How many linux distributions are out there? by Ridgelift · · Score: 3, Informative

    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 .

    Distrowatch

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  2. Dumb distribition name: MEPIS by Franciscan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    Regards, WPostma/Franciscan

  3. Re:Desktop Linux the way you want it. by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've installed Linux from Scratch many times, these days I use Crux, and I do disagree with you, but I never get mod points.

    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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  4. Re:Good... by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, major.minor.teeny makes the most sense for libraries, if the authors stick to it faithfully. If you just do a bugfix or slight improvement, bump up the teeny number. If you add enhancements but do not break backwards compatibility, then bump the minor number. If you break ABI/API compatibility, then bump the major number.

    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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  5. Re:Why no RPMs? by derF024 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lets swap knowledge and educate eachother:

    rpm -qf /some/file/somewhere

    tells me which package an installed file belongs to, very useful.

    dpkg -S /some/file/somewhere

    Very basic simple functionality.