Mepis 7.9.93 beta 6

I've installed Mepis 8 beta and am most impressed.

It uses debian repositories and KDE. The open source driver worked for my ati X800 card in blender (normally it crashes), however the system overall was buggy until I installed the restricted driver.

I only tried Mepis because Hardy wasn't working properly with Blender and an update on the video drivers must had done something so that Blender wouldn't display wire frames properly.

A fresh install of Ibex and installing of the restricted drivers left me at command line, the first time I have been unable to use the restricted drivers in Ubuntu for about 3 years!!

Mepis was very fast to install (about 15 mins compared to Ubuntu's 30 mins). It has firefox 3 and openoffice 3. It uses synaptic. The forums are helpful. Youtube works out of the box.

yeah, it was OK. but if i'm going to use something that's based debian lenny, i'll just install debian lenny to begin with and cut out the middle man. getting flash installed for youtube takes 30 seconds.

Mepis has always been known for being very good with hardware. Mepis was one of the first distributions to have a working Live / Install CD.

exploder said: Mepis has always been known for being very good with hardware. Mepis was one of the first distributions to have a working Live / Install CD.

its also my first distro, that i used regularly. I miss mepis sometimes