Ubuntu was mentioned in the original article if I am not mistaken. By the way, the time is now. Ubuntu passed Release Candidate stage for the 9.10 release. My recommendation for those of you who like to use it is to grab it now; any changes for the release will be minor, as in ten packages or less, so this is a good time to download it before the mad rush next week.
SimplyMEPIS is an awesome distribution. Warren Woodford originally planned to release an 8.5 release this Fall, but with Debian Squeeze planning on a 2010 release, he seems to have changed his plans. Don't let that deter anyone who likes a good, solid release. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 has already had two minor updates, 8.0.6 and 8.0.10 and both are simply incremental updates with minor package changes. If you like MEPIS but want something more current, just check out the MEPIS Lovers Forum and add in one of their community repositories to pick up stable, tested, upgraded software applications.
I am a fan, not only of SimplyMEPIS, but also of its lightweight descendant, antiX, which replaces KDE with IceWM and Fluxbox and uses a lighter collection of applications so that it works well on aging equipment.
Then I am a fan of sidux, one of the finest cutting edge distributions around. Note that SimplyMEPIS is based on Debian Stable; antiX is based on Debian Testing, and sidux is based on Debian Sid. OF COURSE, I am ALSO a big fan of Debian itself, and I happen to be using Debian Squeeze right now.
