Mepis

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Mepis

Derivative of: Debian
Managed by: Warren Woodford

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Current Stable Release: 7.0

Mepis is a great Linux distribution especially intended to make Linux easy. Mepis makes it very easy to start using Linux, even if you know little about Linux. The MepisLovers forum is very friendly and helpful. Mepis is a Live CD and an install CD in one, and it works on almost any hardware. Mepis is very easy to configure and use. It comes with a full suite of software for nearly all applications, and any other applications you need or want may be found in the Debian repositories.

Mepis is based on Debian Etch from version 7.0 on. Version 6.5 and 6.0 were based on Ubuntu Dapper. Mepis was created by and is maintained by Warren Woodford.

[edit] A N T I X (a lightweight derivative of MEPIS)

MEPIS has announced the 7.0 release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. The antiX web site is at http://antix.mepis.org and an antiX forum is hosted at http://www.mepislovers.org

AntiX 7.0 beta 2 is built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: fluxbox and ice window managers, Abiword, Gnumeric, Leafpad, Scite, Nano, mtpaint, xpdf, Firefox 2, Sylpheed-claws, Dillo, Links 2, Xchat, gftp, Pan, Irssi, Snownews RSS reader, Gtk-Gnutella, bittorrent, flash, mozilla-mplayer, xmms, mplayer, gmplayer, Midnight Commander, rox-filer, xarchive and brasero.

AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentium II or equivalent AMD processors. ISO images and deltas are available in the 'testing' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and at the MEPIS public mirrors.

About Anti Anti is a Brit living and working for the last 18 years as a teacher in Thessaloniki the second largest city in Greece. AntiX is remastered from MEPIS to give something back to the community and to work on boxes with 128MB RAM (It does work with 64MB RAM + 128MB swap). The name alludes to the ideas that it is supposed to be like antics (fun) and it is for antiques (ie older boxes). Plus anti is the nickname of the creator and maintainer of AntiX.

About MEPIS LLC MEPIS LLC was founded in 2002 by computer industry veteran Warren Woodford to realize his personal vision for a version of Linux that was complete and secure, while also being easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. MEPIS also provides senior systems analysis and cross-platform software development outsourcing services to software companies and medium to large corporations.