Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 09:55
SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today.
Despite the small development team, SimplyMEPIS releases are full featured and pretty. It ships with a stable KDE, lot of handy software, and full multimedia support. It even ships with popular proprietary wireless Ethernet drivers and proprietary graphic drivers are a click away. It comes in 32 or 64-bit versions in installable live CD format. SimplyMEPIS is based on Debian Stable and Warren Woodford, the lead developer, goes to great lengths to insure none of that stability is lost. Woodford delayed the migration to KDE 4 until 8.5 for that very reason.
simply Mepis
Howdy!, You said it worked 'out of the box'.
NOT! Did you try playing a .pps that has sound?
Very few 'nix distros do. Mint is 1 of them.
I like the looks of Mepis better, and would switch
if I could get the sound to work. This was from the live CD,
not installed.
Enjoy TM very much, read it every day.
Best regards.....jw