MEPIS Linux

[Cander]

Anyone ever given this Debian based distrobution a spin? I tried this out last night and am thoroughly impressed. The CD was a LiveCD and loaded into a KDE environment with an icon on the desktop to install to your hard drive. It took absolutly no effort to install. And apt-get and its gui synaptic kicks serious butt. I wanted to install mono. All I had to do was search for mono in synaptic, select the package when it finds it, mark it for install, then start installation. It downloads everything you need, including dependencies and installs.

Comes with a great range of packages pre-isntalled too. It also installs a 2.4 AND a 2.6 kernel and lets you select which one to use at the GRUB bootloader.

Best *nix experience I have ever had. Certianly worth checking out.

www.mepis.org

[Dillinger4]

Looks pretty cool. The user submitted desktops are dope.

[Dillinger4]

MEPIS Linux Info

When installed on a hard drive, MEPIS is no faster or slower than any other version of Linux. In general, desktop Linux is as fast as MS-Windows XP running on the same machine.

When running from CD, MEPIS can be quite slow due a CDROM drive being very slow compared to a hard drive. Also the CD is compressed to make room for about 2GB of software, so when the software is run it has to be decompressed on-the-fly.

So you can actually run the os from a cd rom? Wha't this so you can try out the os before installing it?

[Cander]

Yes. You can just stick it in your CD Rom, reboot your system, and a fully usable Linux distro is loaded into memory including the KDE desktop. Doesnt mess with your hard drive at all. You can get yourself a little usb key drive if you want to continue to use it like this without installing to save data.