I've run them both, and while I would be hard-pressed to decide which
one is "better", I decided to stay with MEPIS because...
1.) I have a little more experience with it. I've been running Simply MEPIS
3.3.1 since it came out.
2.) Updating with either Synaptic or the Kpackage manager is about as easy as
it gets.
3.) Robin "roblimo" Miller's book "Point and Click Linux" which is a
beginner's guide to MEPIS and Linux in general.
4.) MEPIS joining the Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA) will help assure
that many flavors of Debian will have a long future ahead of them. For some
reason, Ubuntu has decided NOT to join in this project, and may eventually
fork off in it's own direction.
Mad Penguin has an Interview with Warren Woodford, MEPIS Developer a
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/
if you're interested.
Stu
On Monday 29 August 2005 11:46, Josh Coffman wrote:
> --- June Tate <june@theonelab.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:11:43AM -0700, Josh
> >
> > Coffman wrote:
> > > Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the
> >
> > fact
> >
> > > I've learned a lot getting it working on my
> >
> > laptop.
> >
> > > I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp
> >
> > z5440
> >
> > > laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good
> > > desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to
> > > moviefone.com to check previews for some movies
> >
> > and it
> >
> > > wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer
> > > plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving
> > > problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to
> >
> > do
> >
> > > it all the time.
> >
> > I have a similar laptop -- an HP ze4315us -- and
> > have installed Ubuntu
> > with no problems (aside from brain-damaged
> > hardware). By far, I've
> > found Ubuntu to be a cut above most distributions
> > out there with
> > regards to stability, ugpradability and usability.
> > Since it's based on
> > Debian, upgrading and maintaining it is simple --
> > just apt-get update,
> > apt-get dist-upgrade -u every once in a while, or
> > just let the Ubutnu
> > updater do all the heavy lifting for you. =o)
> >
> > --
> > June Tate * http://www.theonelab.com *
>
> Ok, I've tried Ubuntu in the past and wasn't over
> enamored with it. I didn't think it was bad. I just
> found other KDE-based distros to have more intuitive
> menus.... but I come from a heavy windows background
> sooo.... (oh and yes I know about Kubuntu)
>
> I'll try it again since I've been using Fedora 4 w/
> Gnome for 2+ months. Yes, I do like Debian based
> distros in general especially for Apt & Synaptic.
> (Synaptic works on Fedora using apt4rpm, but be
> careful using it unless you don't want to use Yum at
> all.)
>
> Anyone used and compared Mepis to Ubuntu? (other than
> gnome vs kde comparisons)
>
> -j
>
>
>
>
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