MEPIS Linux My Humble Beginning in Linux and NOW it is MX Linux

 MEPIS Linux is my humble beginning in Linux and NOW, it is MX Linux

MEPHIS Linux was a Debian based desktop Linux distribution designed for both personal and business purposes. 

It included  cutting-edge features such as a live, installation and recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, and a personal firewall. 

Though MEPIS Linux was eventually discontinued, its community continued on and merged technology from MEPIS with the very lightweight, Debian-based AntiX distribution. 

The result is a project called MX Linux.
 

MX Linux is based on Debian's Stable branch and features components developed by the MEPIS and AntiX communities. 

The distribution features the Xfce desktop with a vertical panel layout (instead of the more common horizontal panel). 

The distribution also features KDE Plasma and 

a Fluxbox edition. 

MX Linux is considered a mid-weight distribution that offers many modern applications (which are periodically updated through backports) combined with a stable base. 

The distribution strives to offer good performance with convenient features.

MX Linux is particularly well known for its collection of graphical administration utilities called MX-Tools. 

These tools provide easy access to managing user accounts, working with software packages and installing codecs.

 

 Pros: Out-of-the-box support for graphics drivers, browser plugins and media codecs; stable core with updated desktop applications

 Cons: Installer and some configuration tools look different and can take time to get used to. 

It is intuitive.

Software package management: Advanced Package Tool (APT)

 

 Available editions: 

Xfce, 

KDE Plasma unlike other KDE distributions it is sleek and cute.

Fluxbox running on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 hardware

Suggested alternatives:  

AntiX has gone defunct but would revive an old computer in an instance.

Uses the old ROX File system and has many (?3 or 4) Window Mangers.

I loved it during Legacy days. Failed to configure WiFi.

It is only 1.9GB and I have a copy in my archive.

TeenPUP based Legacy OS o 3.2GB which is packed applications also failed to configure WiFi.

Yes, I have a copy, if I ever I go home to Ceylon, I would take them with me to boot my old Tower PC still functioning.

SimplyMepis
 

Simply Mepis is one of the distributions I have installed in my laptop and desktop on a regular and permanent basis.
The other is Berry Linux. I must confess that I use them for demonstration of cute little distributions and not for daily work.
Edited today 15-08-2010
I think I have touched upon some intuition.
What is written below was before the download of Mepis DVD.
Thanks to Guys and Girls in Mepis for sweeper (which I call a Mind Sweeper).

Making me happy Mepis has introduced a package named Sweeper to clean up the system. It is a welcome I had being waiting for a long time. I had been doing this manually until now even with PCLinux.
This utility should be developed into MinD Sweeper for others to follow.

I use PCLinux (now 2o10-01) on daily basis and it does not give any problem because it has the nice habit of deleting unnecessary files in tmp on a regular basis (at boot up) and there is no clutter or clogging due to large log files (large log files that are essential for a server and should not be used obsessively in a desktop).

I of course on a regular basis look at the available memory after three or four downloads and having archived the images delete big files keeping the distribution robust and up to date.

Whereas my wife and daughter who also use two different (both PCLinux-2009) desktops on a regular basis come up to me saying that Linux sucks memory since they download many photos and the like files.

Luckily I have not given them the administrative rights and when things are bad in five minutes I clean up the unnecessary files and get the box running like new.

The cardinal mistakes everybody makes is that, not running the box over 24 hours at least occasionally and to let the Cron jobs run. that do the clean up jobs in servers and desktops.

This is something that Linux desktop developers should look at and develop cron jobs, akin to frequent savings in office utilities.

I think a utility of this nature is essential for laptops.

What they should do is to send a message at random fashion while when the desktop is being used and asking the user whether it is safe to activate the cron jobs (name it the clean up jobs) without compromising the downloading and downloaded files still in the tmp.

Sorry for the diversion but I feel this piece of advice is vital for the newbies.

Coming back to Mepis it is one of the best distributions in a single CD and has everything one needs and sometimes things that are missing in PCLinux.

That is why I use them for some special occasions.

Mepis has a new DVD and bit 32 and 64 versions, I am currently downloading them and write few lines about them soon (having tested them).

Mepis is something one ought to have to get the fresh and Debian feel like Morphis.

Posted by Asoka at 6:57 PM