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MEPIS, try it now!
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My last words on the topic:
You run the same kernel (actually, from what I can tell, you're running the one I installed a year ago; I've updated since). You use the same packages (and likely the same package manager as many other distros as well). How does that make your distro better than the ones I've already got configured the way I like?
You run the same kernel (actually, from what I can tell, you're running the one I installed a year ago; I've updated since). You use the same packages (and likely the same package manager as many other distros as well). How does that make your distro better than the ones I've already got configured the way I like?
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Originally Posted by joeprogrammer 
>you are wrong about MEPIS not being unique
Tell us what is unique about MEPIS, then.
>It is spelled with all capital letters. That alone is unique I think
Are you serious?
Anywa, having a huge amount of software is NOT a good reason to buy a distro. Personally, I choose distros based on their default configuration (do I have to remove lots of crap to get it to run decently?), the basic configuration tools that are at my disposal, and the installation of it. I would never buy a distro simply because it offered nearly 1000 software packages that can be had for free simply by downloading them off the internet.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
1) other crapital letter distributions:
SLAX
SUSE
2) you can get a compositing window manager and beryl and all the nvidia/ati drivers as well as the wir=reless ones if you get PCLinux OS or Sabayon.
Does mepis let any user create thier own livecd in ONE COMMAND? i think not.. PCLinxu does.
Now stop triolling about MEPIS, its really not that different
Don't tell me I'm trolling when I am just standing up for my favorite distro. Have you even tried MEPIS ? Probably not. You're one of the guys that can bash a distro without trying it too? Weak.
Last edited by mepnoob2005; Mar 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am.
yes ive tried it. Insecure, Slow (WTF did they make it i386!!!), Bloated, Tacky and inconsisten, poor doucmentation
and as for the huge amount of software
debian and ubuntu have much pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic
that realy nothing special
and as for the huge amount of software
debian and ubuntu have much pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic
that realy nothing special
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Originally Posted by jbennet
yes ive tried it. Insecure, Slow (WTF did they make it i386!!!), Bloated, Tacky and inconsisten, poor doucmentation
and as for the huge amount of software
debian and ubuntu have much pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic
that realy nothing special
If you can't answer my questions without being insulting then stay off of the thread. If you have used MEPIS then tell me which version. Then I'll think about it.
They have a 64 bit out , if you didn't know. The version that I use regular is SimplyMEPIS 6.5 rc1 32 bit version. I have a pen 4 so what do you think I should use. I think that I know. From RECENT personal experiance.
Your statement about MEPIS being slow is so far off base that it is just funny.
Documentation for MEPIS is awesome if you know where to look. I guess you didn't know where to look if you couldn't find good documentation. Heard of google? There. That is the extent of my insults. Not like you. Using terms like WTF ? Just what does that mean? Spell it out for me. In english. Sounds like you just said something that shouldn't be said in a public forum.
Do I have to remind you too that this forum is called Getting Started and Choosing a distro ? I am just trying to save some users from going backwards when the distro that is being recommended is going to be hard to learn. getting Started and Choosing a Distro is what i have been posting about. I don't bash unless provoked by ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Not an insult. An obsevation. Closed mindedness is not a virtue.
jbennet you said "debian and ubuntu have much pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic"
Yet you never referred to those distros as being bloated? Why is MEPIS bloated and not ubuntu which has just as many programs as MEPIS installed or installable? I feel this is a personal attack on me and not a constructive observation. I love to debate intelligently. It is the backbone of learning new things. But I don't insult, I just tell it as I see it. And from plenty of personal experience. I expect others to do the same.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
yes ive tried it. Insecure, Slow (WTF did they make it i386!!!), Bloated, Tacky and inconsisten, poor doucmentation
and as for the huge amount of software
debian and ubuntu have much pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic
that realy nothing special
How could MEPIS be 'bloated' and not ubuntu? You said that they have the same amount of packages installed and available. So would you explain your 'bloated' remark with an intelligent answer and no more remarks that are not based on fact?
You need to explain yourself if you are going to post on any thread that I am posting on or save yourself the trouble a stay off any threads where you need to be insulting. This is a public forum and not your home where you can say whatever strikes your fancy. Think about it before you post some 'funny' remark that is so far off base as to make you seem foolish. Back to you. Funny man. LOL and ROTFLMAO.
debian = bloated?
have you ever heard of netinstall? i swear by it
and yes i tried SimplyMEPIS 32 bit v6.5 rc1 as well as the current stable 6.0 version, didnt like either
look i dont want to flame ok, but your attitude suggests you almost want to start one
i set up people with debian custom debian netinstalls or ubuntu on a weekly basis but i tried mepis on all my machines and well, frankly i dont believe its up to the task as it has poor driver support and ran slowwwwwww.
On the positive note, it was very fast booting up
have you ever heard of netinstall? i swear by it
and yes i tried SimplyMEPIS 32 bit v6.5 rc1 as well as the current stable 6.0 version, didnt like either
look i dont want to flame ok, but your attitude suggests you almost want to start one
i set up people with debian custom debian netinstalls or ubuntu on a weekly basis but i tried mepis on all my machines and well, frankly i dont believe its up to the task as it has poor driver support and ran slowwwwwww.
On the positive note, it was very fast booting up
Last edited by jbennet; Mar 14th, 2007 at 3:12 pm.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
debian = bloated?
have you ever heard of netinstall? i swear by it
and yes i tried SimplyMEPIS 32 bit v6.5 rc1 as well as the current stable 6.0 version, didnt like either
look i dont want to flame ok, but your attitude suggests you almost want to start one
i set up people with debian custom debian netinstalls or ubuntu on a weekly basis but i tried mepis on all my machines and well, frankly i dont believe its up to the task as it has poor driver support and ran slowwwwwww.
On the positive note, it was very fast booting up
I mean you said "ran slow" and "booted fast" I guess that you must have low ram on all of your machines. I really doubt that you did install it on ALL of your machines. You just said that to try and add credence to your weak statements. My guess is that you tried a live cd and it ran slow for you.
You said "look i dont want to flame ok, " Well then why are you? This thread is for telling people about various distros and their good and bad points. That's what I am doing in spite of your harrasment. I am not trying to start a flame war but i have years of experience using MEPIS all of the time as my main system. I know that you can't say that. Your statement about installing MEPIS on ALL of your machines is so full of holes that it is funny too. I really don't think that anyone who thought that MEPIS was 'slow' 'bloated' and 'insecure' would bother to install it on all of his machines. Really. Do you really think that anyone would believe that bs ? And I'm not a gamer. So don't play games with me man.
Wow. you said something positive about MEPIS. I'm surprised.
Last edited by mepnoob2005; Mar 14th, 2007 at 3:30 pm.
Everyone has the right to their own opinion, you said yourself that the live CD included over 900 applications, to native linux users, this seems rather bloated. My live CD includes 130 applications, and does everything that I need it to do. Lets try to cool off the personal attacks, just because we don't like the OS your recommending, isn't cause to get all up in arms, we are just letting other people know there are alternatives, and what our opinion is.
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1) installed it on a dell desktop, a ibm laptop and 2 compaq/hp servers - on only 2 of these machines the install worked (and with some serious tweaking)
Theee are not production machines, just machines that i use for testing distributions on and for practcing for college
2)I am doing exactly what you said, good and bad points. As i said, MEPIS is extremely fast loading and tries to be user friendly but in the end lacks driver support and is slow
3) I am not a gamer
4) check post26. you said ubuntu was bloated. ubuntu has far less packages than MEPIS
Theee are not production machines, just machines that i use for testing distributions on and for practcing for college
2)I am doing exactly what you said, good and bad points. As i said, MEPIS is extremely fast loading and tries to be user friendly but in the end lacks driver support and is slow
3) I am not a gamer
4) check post26. you said ubuntu was bloated. ubuntu has far less packages than MEPIS
Last edited by jbennet; Mar 14th, 2007 at 4:32 pm.
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