Certain distributions tend to get more press than others. SimplyMEPIS isn’t one of the ones that gets drooled over by the media the way that Linux Mint, Ubuntu and others do. I include myself in this as a journalist since this blog has been up and running since early July and I’m just now getting to a review of SimplyMEPIS. It’s a shame though as SimpyMEPIS has quite a bit to offer the desktop Linux user as you’ll find out in this review.
First a bit of background about SimplyMEPIS from Wikipedia:
MEPIS was designed as an alternative to SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrake) which, in the creator Warren Woodford’s opinion, were too difficult for the average user. MEPIS’s first official release was on May 10, 2003.
In 2006, MEPIS made a transition from using Debian packages to using Ubuntu packages. [1] SimplyMEPIS 6.0, released in July 2006, was the first version of MEPIS to incorporate the Ubuntu packages and repositories.
What’s New In This Release
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is based on Debian Lenny. Here’s a sample of what’s new in this release:
Linux Kernel 2.6.27.18
KDE 3.5.10
OpenOffice 3.0
Firefox 3.0.6
Bind 0.9.6
IPv6
(11 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)
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I use Mepis as a workstation building and maintaining websites and the like. I’ve come back to it actually since ubuntu-based distros (like Mint) can no longer run Kompozer do to ‘upgrades’.
Mepis flirted with ubuntu repositories for an edition or two but now thankfully they have returned to debian.
My first real Linux desktop was with Mepis 3.3.1. Unfortunately “upgrades” broke it. Sometimes installing updates on a package manager is a good way to muck up your system with no way to get it back to how it was before.
I agree that the menu list could be more elegant but its a good stable workhorse so I” keep it on my working box.
The network manager has been improved from Mepis 7 too, thank god. Still not as easy to configure as many other modern Linux distros tho.
Check out new SimplyMepies 8.5 RC2 review with screen shots and Download Mirror link.SimplyMEPIES comes with brand new KDE 4.3 with codeces, so it will be easy to use for new users. The detail can be found here
http://www.linux2u.co.cc/2010/03/simplymepis-85-rc2-is-available.html
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