Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 20, 2004 01:41 AM
SimplyMepis ISO images are available at no cost. For $29, you get access to an ftp where you can obtain and play with betas, etc.
I've found SimplyMepis to be a very good piece of work that can still get better. The inclusion and preconfiguration of Flash, Java, Real Plater, etc., is very nice and fits in well with desktop use. (Getting these things working is annoying for an experienced Linux user and a deal-killer for anyone using Linux for the first time.)
Moving to the Nvidia driver is easier than in other Debian-derived efforts I've used: Just click one checkbox and retrieve one file via apt-get.
It could improve on detection of flat panel LCD's. Mine would not work without manual editing of XF86Config, something that no off-the-street desktop user should be expected to do. They will just throw away the CD and complain the distro is broken -- which it is if it can't boot to anything other than a black screen. (I booted the CD in VESA mode, something that several other distributions also require.)
Finally, MEPIS needs a GUI-fied way to list and start/stop services. It's Debian, after all, and that's sure not intuitive.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 20, 2004 01:41 AMI've found SimplyMepis to be a very good piece of work that can still get better. The inclusion and preconfiguration of Flash, Java, Real Plater, etc., is very nice and fits in well with desktop use. (Getting these things working is annoying for an experienced Linux user and a deal-killer for anyone using Linux for the first time.)
Moving to the Nvidia driver is easier than in other Debian-derived efforts I've used: Just click one checkbox and retrieve one file via apt-get.
It could improve on detection of flat panel LCD's. Mine would not work without manual editing of XF86Config, something that no off-the-street desktop user should be expected to do. They will just throw away the CD and complain the distro is broken -- which it is if it can't boot to anything other than a black screen. (I booted the CD in VESA mode, something that several other distributions also require.)
Finally, MEPIS needs a GUI-fied way to list and start/stop services. It's Debian, after all, and that's sure not intuitive.
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