On Monday 03 April 2006 19:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > Ubuntu is a fine distribution. It works for my friends and it's > > easy for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu > > experience is a little too sweet for my taste. > > You might like Mepis for friend's machines. It goes out of its > way to make things freindlier but as far as I could see it doesn't > really hide anything. It also used normal Debian repositories > instead of replacing them so in theory it should be easy to switch to > pure Debian at a later date.
I used Mepis for a while and it is still on my Father's computer. It worked great for installing, but after 6 months or so I had more and more trouble with adding packages (which I rarely have on Debian). I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem I had, but I think mixing Testing and Unstable sources can cause problems in the long run. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
