Re: Debian and MEPIS Linux - YAIR (Yet Another Installation Report)

[Jason Greenwood]

I am not sure, have a look at mepis.org for more info. I have the latest 
version (2-10-03). I think it is a 'combination' but of course you can 
apt-get (or Synaptic) anything and it comes pre-configured to get 
software from several repositores and you can specify whether to include 
stable/unstable etc. They have included a GUI Control Centre for 
handling most tasks, which is cool.

Cheers

Jason

Andrew Errington wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:44, you wrote:

Hi All,

Well after the hell that was the first Debian (standard, text based)
installation I tried, I just experienced pure joy with MEPIS Linux. It
is a Debian based Distro (I have been wanting to toy with Debian on a
spare partition for some time now) that is very easy to install.


Hi,

I just put Debian 3.0 (woody) on my laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E).  I don't 
think the installer is so bad, but you do have to concentrate.  I will post 
to the list my final choice of partitions (since this is the decision I had 
the most difficulty with).

Anyway, my question for you is- with MEPIS do you end up with a 'standard' 
installation (i.e. completely 'stable' packages) or do you get a happy 
combination of stable, testing and unstable?  Since I only put Debian on at 
the weekend I am willing to discard it and try something new if it is 
better.  My only worry is keeping it up to date, since this is easy with 
the staid and stolid Debian woody, but a little more involved with Knoppix 
and its ilk.

Of course I will RTF-MEPIS-M, but that is no substitute for hearing 
someone's experience related.

Andy

PS The Debian installation went very smoothly.  Everything but sound worked 
out of the box, and a quick Google showed an easy order-of-execution 
solution.  My advice- write down all the hardware settings reported by 
Windows device manager before reformatting.