On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:14:16 +0000 "B.Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't intend to flame anybody's favourite OS or distribution, but > before you go for Mepis read this > http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=6404 for some additional > information. FUD. Or so it seems to me, after reading that page. I really can't seem to see what this guy's beef is. I've seen worse, and I even went ahead and watched the flash video, and I'm not about to knock mepis in any way close to what this guy did. Sure, there are alternatives, and perhaps the installer had a few glitches (f.e., trying to insist on a samba workgroup even if the person unchecked that box) - but it seems to have gone OK - unless of course the system just hangs and he just didn't run out of movie film :) at the last minute. I did install mepis (about 1.5 yrs ago - circa september 2004). Scrapped mandrake/mandriva in favor of mepis. For me, I had no issues with their HD install. Maybe it's gotten worse. And I spent quite a bit of time with mepis, but at the end (a few months ago) I decided to try again, this time just by using debian testing --- after using mepis as more or less a springboard to "mostly" upgrade to a sarge system, but I had packages from sarge/etch/unstable mixed and it proved ultimately to be less than desirable trying to manage it all. > Why not go for Debian itself (speaks the man who's currently using > Ubuntu). Or Kubuntu. ubuntu/kubuntu is nice too - but it's all about choice. I haven't tried actually to do an install off of kubuntu. knoppix/kanotix is supposedly getting better at doing the hd installs from the live media (more so knoppix, since it purports to put sarge on the HD). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
