Mepis 7.0 goes final.

[buster]

Mepis is mentioned, along with PCLOS, as one of the 'friendly' distros in our forums. Thought people might like to know that the Debian based Mepis 7 went final yesterday. (They completed their move away from Ubuntu.) Worth a look. Can be downloaded here.

http://www.mepis.org/mirrors

[exploder]

Let me know what you think of the new theme!

[buster]

To me it looks professional and clean. Attractive. But I'm still partial to blue.

[exploder]

Thanks for the response! I was on the artwork team.

[molom]

So what's wrong with Ubuntu? Why did they switch to Debian if Ubuntu is based on Debian? Ubuntu is well known and has a good image, so not why continue having Mepis being based on Ubuntu?

[buster]

Warren wrote about it, but I can't find the article. I think the main concerns are two.

The software on the long term support Ubuntu releases had security updates, but no updates to the software itself. So it quickly became dated. The other concern was the fact that it was difficult to update from one release to another. The changes were fairly drastic.

Debian may allow simpler incremental upgrades with less awkwardness.

Keep in mind that I'm writing from memory, and I may be saying things that aren't accurate.

[exploder]

Going back to Debian makes Mepis more of a rolling release. Many user's do not want to do a clean install every 6 months to have up to date features and packages. Warren went back to work consulting and can not spend as much time working on Mepis. The community will be involved now.

[yamawho]

Mepis rocks ... nice xmas present.

[VaMPiRiC_CRoW]

I'm using it since 7.0 RC1 and it's a great distro!

My only problems are with USB external drives...

[NoClue!]

Very nice default artwork and theme.
I like the package description proceeding the actual name were most of the K abuse occurs.
Outstanding manual.

I still think KDE is a bit of a pill to swallow for most basic ms users but with that fantastic manual I could recommend Mepis 7 to converts with some skills.

I think I'm going to let this one out of the Vbox and find a real box for it.

[Sunny Rabbiera]

Mepis has always been one of my faves, in fact it was the distro that got me really into linux as before I had a shaky experience with it.
It certainly has one of the best KDE's out there and it makes life easy for the newcomer.

[molom]

Sam Linux 2008 came out today and apparently the developers for that distro hacked and took the Mint Menu for their distro. I guess Mint is the most unique distro ever and they couldn't think of anything better than Mints utilities to make something good .

[exploder]

The mint-menu is GPL, so there is nothing at all wrong with Sam Linux using it. I think it says a lot for LinuxMint when other distributions show interest in things like the mint-menu! The mint-menu was derived from the Suse slab menu and in my opinion, greatly improved!

It says a great deal for the work that has been done and really should be considered a compliment. Hats off to LinuxMint development!

Also, LinuxMint was given credit in the release announcement.

[molom]

The mint-menu is GPL, so there is nothing at all wrong with Sam Linux using it. I think it says a lot for LinuxMint when other distributions show interest in things like the mint-menu! The mint-menu was derived from the Suse slab menu and in my opinion, greatly improved!

It says a great deal for the work that has been done and really should be considered a compliment. Hats off to LinuxMint development!

Also, LinuxMint was given credit in the release announcement.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it unless people start to think that SAM linux made it. But they stated they hacked it from Mint, so I respect them. It just shows that Linux Mint has the best developers the Linux community has.

Cheers,
molom

[exploder]

I agree with you. This shows without a doubt that the menu is liked by others and who knows, this could start a new trend!

[NoClue!]

I wish Nico would've hacked mintupdate while he had his hand in the cookie jar. Bye the way SAM 2008 looks real good. The competition in the xfce game is getting real intense, lots of good stuff.