Why Mepis?

[hard candy]

Mepis is a fairly new distro, which seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Mepis Linux (http://www.mepis.org/)
The pros:
1. Very good automatic configuration
2. Very good default security set-up
3. Can use as live cd to try out the distro and repair other linux, windows installations.
4. Good community on the support forums.
5. Reconfigure the video set-up and the bootloader, Lilo, using the live cd.
6. Gnuparted can be used to resize WinXp,Win98, linux partitions usinig the live cd or from the desktop (not the current mounted installation though).

The cons:
1. Some difficulty configuring ATI video cards, manual configuration required.
2. Manual SATA configuration required.
3. Too many programs available via apt-get ( a case of too many choices for this simple mind!), easy to mess up installation via kpackage (might end up deleting KDE trying to update something else- use the "test" option first)
4. KDE is default- gnomes not like that! (not really a con unless you are a gnomie).

Highly recommended for newcomers who have nvidia video, other brands of video cards may need some manual configuration. But you can always use the boot options to load vesa during install.
Try it, much easier to tweak than Redhat /Fedora after the installation.

[catman]

I thank you, Kind Knight for such a balanced review of Mepis Linux.

I had never even heard of it!

But maybe here in South Africa it takes a while for such news to reach us!

Thanks to you, I am now aware of it!

Should I ever have the opportunity of laying my hands on a copy I shall surely give it a try, and post my experiences on the forum for others to read.

Once again Thank You:)