Posted by: Robert Heym
on January 17, 2004 07:34 AM
This is a good review, but I wanted to add the perspective of an actual Linux noob as a comment.
With a little more than 6 weeks of Linux experience, most of it with Mandrake, I decided to try Mepis (which I got as a free download). Now I've been using it for a little more than a month, and it is hard for me to imagine a more user-friendly distribution.
Don't think that because it installs from a live CD that it lacks for anything. Once you've installed it, you have access to all of the Debian apps. So far every one I've tried has gone in and worked correctly. That's the distiguishing feature of this distro: everything just works, and works well, right after the install. By everything, I mean Nvidea video card drivers are installed, flash, shockwave, and realplayer are configured, the local network is fully accessible, printing works transparently...everything important to me.
Sure you'll add software, do tweaks, and make it yours, that's what is great about Linux in general. I also had to locate a driver for one of my printers that CUPS doesn't support on any distro. I've also used alien to convert a few RPM packages that I liked from Mandrake.
As a newcomer to Linux, I couldn't be happier. I have recommended that several of my friends try this distribution.
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Posted by: Robert Heym on January 17, 2004 07:34 AMWith a little more than 6 weeks of Linux experience, most of it with Mandrake, I decided to try Mepis (which I got as a free download). Now I've been using it for a little more than a month, and it is hard for me to imagine a more user-friendly distribution.
Don't think that because it installs from a live CD that it lacks for anything. Once you've installed it, you have access to all of the Debian apps. So far every one I've tried has gone in and worked correctly. That's the distiguishing feature of this distro: everything just works, and works well, right after the install. By everything, I mean Nvidea video card drivers are installed, flash, shockwave, and realplayer are configured, the local network is fully accessible, printing works transparently...everything important to me.
Sure you'll add software, do tweaks, and make it yours, that's what is great about Linux in general. I also had to locate a driver for one of my printers that CUPS doesn't support on any distro. I've also used alien to convert a few RPM packages that I liked from Mandrake.
As a newcomer to Linux, I couldn't be happier. I have recommended that several of my friends try this distribution.
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