Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 20, 2004 12:18 AM
I know Marcel via the community forums (my name was TKS there) and I will attempt to answer your questions for him if he will permit me...
1. MEPIS vs. Knoppix or Kanotix would be very interesting. I've found that MEPIS detects a bit more of my hardware than Knoppix would do to a small program written by the developer that installs said hardware (called meauto). It worked on the Dell Optiplex systems at my work when Knoppix wouldn't. I'd have to say that Knoppix and MEPIS are pretty close to one another overall with detection though. I like MEPIS though because it 'feels' better than the others and the community kicks butt!
2. MEPIS is licensed under the GNU License but there are certain parts (such as the meauto program) that are not GNU like flash plugins, java, real player, and nvidia drivers. These things are preinstalled and preconfigured for out of box use. You simply download it from the main website: http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1462
These are packages for the old release 2003.10 but a majority of these packages come with the 2004 version titled 'SimplyMEPIS 2004'. You can also trim down what you don't want using apt-get or Kpackage or Synaptic to remove the packages you don't want or install the ones you do. MEPIS uses the Debian repositories so it has access to over 13,000 packages for install.
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Re:three follow-up questions
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 20, 2004 12:18 AM1. MEPIS vs. Knoppix or Kanotix would be very interesting. I've found that MEPIS detects a bit more of my hardware than Knoppix would do to a small program written by the developer that installs said hardware (called meauto). It worked on the Dell Optiplex systems at my work when Knoppix wouldn't. I'd have to say that Knoppix and MEPIS are pretty close to one another overall with detection though. I like MEPIS though because it 'feels' better than the others and the community kicks butt!
2. MEPIS is licensed under the GNU License but there are certain parts (such as the meauto program) that are not GNU like flash plugins, java, real player, and nvidia drivers. These things are preinstalled and preconfigured for out of box use. You simply download it from the main website: http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1462
3. MEPIS installs a full install from the CD...a package list is here: http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1517 and http://www.mepis.org/book/view/319
These are packages for the old release 2003.10 but a majority of these packages come with the 2004 version titled 'SimplyMEPIS 2004'. You can also trim down what you don't want using apt-get or Kpackage or Synaptic to remove the packages you don't want or install the ones you do. MEPIS uses the Debian repositories so it has access to over 13,000 packages for install.
Hope this answered your questions!
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