MEPIS and where they stand amongst other linux's Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …popular media formats, and latest software packages. MEPIS Linux pioneered the concept of an easily installable …bugs and to concentrate on usability enhancements. Originally MEPIS Linux consisted of two editions - a desktop-…this info. This is the answer that the new MEPIS user posted back..... rebooting ...... and ....... WhooHooo... … Re: MEPIS and where they stand amongst other linux's Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … try the PClinuxOS final when it comes out. MEPIS is the one i use most but I have… played with PClinuxOPS lately too. They're both (MEPIS and PClinuxOS) similar in a lot of ways. If… I wasn't so in to MEPIS I would be using PClinuxOS next. It's …that good. If MEPIS wasn't here I would be using PClinuxOS. It… Good reasons to use MEPIS Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … is readily available 2)MEPIS Network Assistant 3)MEPIS System Assistant 4)MEPIS User Assistant 5)MEPIS X-Windows assistant 6)…. They make formatting a usb stick and installing MEPIS on it easy. They make re-installing grub easy…easy. You can find these assistants by kmenu, system, MEPIS, MEPIS assistants. They are easy, easy, easy. Just what … Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …. No comment for me to rebutt? You never commented on MEPIS's ability to load the new nvidia driver while using… the new MEPISlovers site and the rest at the old MEPIS lovers site. I have helped countless users get comfy with…. Dvd play. Dvd backing up. Scanning. Networking. Wireless set up. MEPIS just works. Oh, and you DID ask me what makes… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … started with it. There really isn't much difference between MEPIS and all of the rest to the naked eye. Lot…'s have kde, even higher versions of kde than what MEPIS uses. Lots have synaptic package manager. Not many other debian… that alone is pretty unique. Other unique things. The live MEPIS disk can load the new nvidia driver for you to… Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …manager is preferred over kpackage. Synaptic package manager honors MEPIS configuration better than kpackage. I looked in synaptic …. No konsole input needed whatsoever. The version of MEPIS that I am using has some assistants. To find…them I go to kmenu, system, MEPIS, MEPIS Network assistant. It's all there. MEPIS System, User, and X Windows … Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …. I can wait for that. Tell me which version of MEPIS that you are talking about and I will tell you… through synaptic # MEPIS improvements, overrides and updates--the MEPIS magic deb [url]http://apt.mepis.org/simply32-6.0/[/url] mepis main # MEPIS backports (disabled… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic that…that I know. From RECENT personal experiance. Your statement about MEPIS being slow is so far off base that it is…never referred to those distros as being bloated? Why is MEPIS bloated and not ubuntu which has just as many programs… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …ubuntu on a weekly basis but i tried mepis on all my machines and well, frankly i…war but i have years of experience using MEPIS all of the time as my main system…'t say that. Your statement about installing MEPIS on ALL of your machines is so full… really don't think that anyone who thought that MEPIS was 'slow' 'bloated' and 'insecure' would bother… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … being unique Tell us what [I]is[/I] unique about MEPIS, then. >It is spelled with all capital letters. That… the internet.[/QUOTE] I cannot believe that you are bashing MEPIS when you have never even tried it. I looked at… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 …=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[/QUOTE] Don't mention sabyon… standing up for my favorite distro. Have you even tried MEPIS ? Probably not. You're one of the guys that … Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … said ubuntu was bloated. ubuntu has far less packages than MEPIS You mean 'By Default' All Linux distrobutions, can work with… post # 26 again. In post #26 I was asking why MEPIS was being referred to as bloated and not ubuntu. They… it was. I just asked why the reference was to MEPIS being bloated. I never meant to infer that ubuntu was… MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by anthonycea I got the bootable CD from [url]www.mepis.com[/url] for $14.00 and you can try this …$ anti-spyware and install shield that rendered the FAT useless, MEPIS was able to read the drive but Windows could not… Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Marks256 I just got a mepis live cd... I am running it live on my laptop. …;Wireless Assistant" ([URL]http://sourceforge.net/projects/wlassistant/[/URL]) Mepis detects my wireless, and it will allow me to detect… Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Marks256 … then is the one i have. I will boot to mepis again later to figure out what the exact version is… it is pretty good (but then again, i heard that mepis was good...) Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by anthonycea [QUOTE=DimaYasny;327892]buying linux? absurd[/QUOTE] Not absurd at all, it is a fantastic value, over [URL="http://www.mepis.org/store/sku200"]900 software programs are on the new Mepis DVD[/URL], you are crazy to compute without it. :eek: Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by DimaYasny …, it is a fantastic value, over [URL="http://www.mepis.org/store/sku200"]900 software programs are on the… new Mepis DVD[/URL], you are crazy to compute without it. :eek… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by John A … being unique Tell us what [I]is[/I] unique about MEPIS, then. >It is spelled with all capital letters. That… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by jbennet …=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 Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 … pretty much the same if not more software repos than MEPIS, and there all at your fingrtips via APT/synaptic that… try and explain what you mean by 'Insecure' ? How could MEPIS be 'bloated' and not ubuntu? You said that they have… Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by jbennet … what you said, good and bad points. As i said, MEPIS is extremely fast loading and tries to be user friendly… said ubuntu was bloated. ubuntu has far less packages than MEPIS Re: MEPIS Wireless Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by kenjutsuka I am running MEPIS linux as stated in the subject, I am running kernel 2.6.11.25. MEPIS comes with ndiswrapper as a preinstall, I am having a problem with linux not loading my PCMCIA card, it's a boot problem. Re: MEPIS Wireless Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by sn4rf3r ….d/kernel-<version> [/code] I dotn know if mepis loads modules using modules.autoloan.d/kernel... this is for… gentoo since thats what I run. MEPIS might be different in some syntax but for the most… Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by John A …?[/quote] No kidding... I assumed that you had actually installed MEPIS from the LiveCD. No wonder. Yes, if you're interested… Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Marks256 Umm. ok.... I got Mepis installed on my laptop... SCons installed fine, (oh, why did i install that anyways? What does it do?) But that wlassistant STILL doesn't want to install! It keeps saying "bad interpreter: Permission Denied"!!!!!!!!!!! Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by jbennet i think its maybe just mepis i got the newest ubuntu and it connected to my encrypted wireless network no problems. Re: Mepis and installing... Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Marks256 Great... Now mepis locks on boot. :( here is where it locks: [code] * Loading hardware drivers... [ ok ] [17179583.340000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: ddd1c202 Type 07 Len 0 [17179583.340000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 5 [17179583.340000] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered [/code] Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 The new SimplyMEPIS 6.5 Rc1 32bit can read and write ntfs now so MEPIS can really save windows users when windows crashes, again. Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mepnoob2005 blud you are wrong about MEPIS not being unique. It is spelled with all capital letters. … Re: MEPIS, try it now! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix 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