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elfqrin
10-03-2006, 08:26 PM
Have any of you heard of the distro called Simply MEPIS? If so do you like it
Oh, and what is KDE??
Thanks,
dAnny
bird603568
10-03-2006, 08:31 PM
yes ive heard of it but ive never used it. kde is the best desktop envroment.
jdhore
10-03-2006, 09:16 PM
KDE blows...Gnome and Fluxbox are the shit
noonebutme
10-03-2006, 09:44 PM
KDE's one of many desktop enviroments, it's got a ton of stuff in there, which is great if your new. But it's also considered to be incredibly bloated because it has so much unnecessary stuff.
Some other desktop enviroments/window managers to check out are Xfce, Gnome, Blackbox/Fluxbox, and E-17.
Mepis is a distro of linux, it's one of the simpler one's so it's good to start off with.
bird603568
10-03-2006, 10:59 PM
KDE blows...Gnome and Fluxbox are the shit
fluxbox is a windows manager
I used and recommended Simply MEPIS about a year ago... It was the only distro when I started out that auto-configed my soundcard properly. Since, I've learned to get my soundcard working on any distro.
MEPIS is a great starter Linux. It comes with my favourite choices for software (last I checked)
MEPIS also uses KDE which I like (that's because I have 1GB ram on an AMD 3700+ @ 2.65 GHz) People think it looks childish and some say its very resource hungry, however a lot is integrated and its really well done.
Installing it can be a pain, since it loads a LiveCD style environment that can sometimes be really slow -- my friends have found. However, that's the route popular distros like Ubuntu (even Gentoo is trying) have taken.
noonebutme
10-06-2006, 07:36 PM
Installing it can be a pain, since it loads a LiveCD style environment that can sometimes be really slow -- my friends have found. However, that's the route popular distros like Ubuntu (even Gentoo is trying) have taken.
Just because a distro doesnt install via GUI doesnt make it any less 'proper' - Gentoo 2006.1 via Command line is still WAY more powerful and configurable then 2006.1 via GUI. IMO, GUI installations can only hurt *nix.
synack
10-07-2006, 05:46 PM
Sup,
Tried MEPIS on new hardware, works great out of the box. Had problems with legacy hardware, but this could be due to lack of drivers'.
synack