You didn't ask for it but those who know me probably expected this. After 6 Betas Mepis 7 RC1 is now out. I can burn discs for anyone who wants them. Once installed, Synaptic will update to Final version probably in a couple of weeks.
I have raved over Mepis 6.5 but 7 is even better IMHO. They have returned to the Debian pools to avouid the 6 monthly Ubuntu upgrade cycle. Install takes less than 15 minutes on decent hardware. Only setting I had to change was to add my ISP's DNS addresses rather than use DHCP - not sure why but it fixed my browsing problems. All multimedia works straight out of the box - no setup or installing extra packages. (Andrew - are you still around? Have you tried it yet?) Rob
