I'm running Mepis on all my boxes except my webserver and firewall. Which are running "stable" versions of debian. I've been very happy with it. Maybe the reason it is so popular is a sign of. Mepis is now the 4th most popular distro, running very close behind SuSE. Mandrake still holding the top tier, anyone know if they've ever fixed the broken updating feature in Mandrake? Anyone out there still using Mandrake or Fedora/RH?
-----Original Message----- From: Richard A. Franklin
Brian Kelsay wrote:
Glad you like it and maybe found a keeper. I just installed the newest stable version of Mepis (2004.06) on a desktop system so I could stop running from CD. I also plan to test the latest test release on the same PC and compare. It's worked well for me. Some things can be difficult installing due to the apt-pinning,
but you can
get help from other Debian users and on the Mepis forums and IRC.
When you used apt-get to install IceWM, did it get added as
an option
to the login screen? There is some nice automation in
Debian systems
like apps being auto added to the K menu in KDE after an
apt-get. I
don't have to restart for a rescan of apps or anything,
they just appear.
Save your LiveCD of Mepis in case you fubar your X config or GRUB.
Brian Kelsay
IceWM was automatically added to the menu in the login screen ... I think I got the older IceWM, and would like to try the experimental over the weekend ... it might be a bit less "gritty" ;-)
I did add all suggested packages for IceWM from the pre-install list while having my "apt-fest" last night.
Mepis is a nicely polished distro, deserving of some kind of contribution. It may very soon end up on my more serious home office desktop, even though SuSE has been a good choice.
For the road, do you have any experience with Mepis for re-sizing NTFS partitions for a dual-boot? Or maybe I should just leave my poor old laptop alone ... it is working fine right now!
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Quoting Brian Densmore DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com:
Anyone out there still using Mandrake or Fedora/RH?
I'm running FC3 on a couple of servers at home, two laptops and RHEL[A|W]S on a dozen servers and seven workstations in production and development environments, respectively.
I've been very pleased with RHEL. The last two kernel updates for FC3 won't boot on my latest hardware, an AMD XP 2800+ or something like that. I just bought it in the last month.
-- Dave Hull http://insipid.com
On Fri, February 4, 2005 12:23 pm, Brian Densmore said:
Mandrake still holding the top tier, anyone know if they've ever fixed the broken updating feature in Mandrake?
It's all a matter of setting up the right source mirrors. I've found it easier to use the urpmi command line tool for automatic updates. You can get info on configuring it from the FAQs on the #mandrake IRC channel on Freenode.
Anyone out there still using Mandrake or Fedora/RH?
Mandrake is my preferred desktop right now, and I still run some old RH servers, but I haven't played with Fedora since RH decided to rip off the customers who had paid for support on releases 7-9.
On Fri, February 4, 2005 12:23 pm, Brian Densmore said:
Mandrake still holding the top tier, anyone know if they've ever fixed the broken updating feature in Mandrake?
It's all a matter of setting up the right source mirrors. I've found it easier to use the urpmi command line tool for automatic updates. You can get info on configuring it from the FAQs on the #mandrake IRC channel on Freenode.
Anyone out there still using Mandrake or Fedora/RH?
Mandrake is my preferred desktop right now, and I still run some old RH servers, but I haven't played with Fedora since RH decided to rip off the customers who had paid for support on releases 7-9.
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