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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. Where is the linux based piano by samjam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where is this linux based piano then?

    Sam

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  2. Re:Desktop Linux the way you want it. by Unregistered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about you guys post some replies instead of marking my post flamebait.

    Sounds like too much work, imo.

  3. weird by eille-la · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really thought that mozilla was free!

  4. Re:I'd like to see a Disk Management distro by xtermin8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you might actually have better chance with OSX! Right now you would have to invest in a ibook and NTFS support is sketchy, but there's promising work in Darwin for both PPC and x86. Call me a dreamer, but at least the possibilities are there.

  5. Re:Stop the press by glwtta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I mean jeez - let's clear this junk out so we can sort through the veritable torrent of real news we are getting right now!

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