SimplyMepis 2004.01 Review (Linuxgruven) [LWN.net]

Linuxgruven reviews SimplyMepis 2004.01. "I have been using Mepis since 2003.10.08. SimplyMepis 2004 continues the excellent user experience and manages to top out any other desktop-oriented distribution that I have used. I originally found Mepis while searching for an affordable option for our undergraduate labs at work. I had been using Xandros Desktop 2.0 since it had been released and was very happy with it. However, Xandros' license agreement was and remains very limiting. Also, I found their file manager to be significantly less flexible than KDE's Konqueror. Mepis offers a similarly straightforward desktop experience while remaining far truer to it's Debian roots. In fact, at the end of the day, Mepis is pretty much just a well-configured and tested Debian desktop distribution with refreshingly little "special sauce" thrown in. Instead, Mepis distinguishes itself by preconfiguring many details, making the menus and defaults clean, and including the best tools for most tasks."

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SimplyMepis 2004.01 Review

Posted Oct 7, 2004 16:15 UTC (Thu) by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181) [Link]

Upfront I'll admit I'm biased, as I was one of the beta testers of this release.

One point the article doesn't mention is that Mepis can also be run straight from the CD. In fact, that's how you install on your PC - boot the Mepis CD, and run the installer app. A great feature in that you can "test drive" the distro on your hardware before commiting.

Otherwise the review is an even handed look at what I think is one of the best desktop distributions around.