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Mepis Overview MEPIS Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution founded by Warren Woodford which can be installed onto a hard disk or run as a LiveCD. It is very easy to use (user-friendly) and includes the latest versions of KDE, OpenOffice.org and more. The first version of MEPIS was released on May 10, 2003. Among Debian-based LiveCD's its installation to hard disk and APT-get compatibility (fidelity to clean Debian base) are considered excellent. A copy of SimplyMEPIS was included in the 2004 book Point and Click Linux. MEPIS is an acronym for Managerial, Educational and Personal Information Systems. History MEPIS's first official release was May 10, 2003. It was created by Warren Woodford of Morgantown, West Virginia. MEPIS was first created for the purpose of creating Warren's vision of a Linux distrobution that did everything he wanted. He felt that SuSE, Red Hat, and Mandrake wern't enough and were too difficult for the average user to use. On November 21, 2002 he decided that if he wanted things done right he would have to do them himself. According to Warren Woodford himself, the name MEPIS is pronounced like "Memphis" (the city in Tennessee) with the extra letter removed and of course not pronounced. MEPIS is a project based on Debian which is a distrobution (often called 'distro') of Linux and uses the KDE desktop which stands for "K Desktop Environment". Recently MEPIS has become more popular due to the fact its based off of Debian, a well known and loved distrobution but also to the fact that it can run as a LiveCD and be installed to the hard drive. As this is being written the current version of MEPIS is SimplyMEPIS 3.3. MEPIS has even gotten some attention from some well known sources including TechTV, Slashdot, and is ranked in the top 10 most popular distrobutions according to Distrowatch.com. (source: mepis.org and distrowatch.com) See also External links - MEPIS.org - official site.
- MEPIS Users United - weblog for MEPIS users.
- Installing GNOME on MEPIS
- http://www.linuxwillprevail.com/Features.html
- http://www.miladus.org/mepis/archives/002910.html - Interview of creator Warren W. for Planete Linux, October 14, 2004.
- http://www.mepislovers.org - Home of enthusiastic and helpful Mepis users. Complete with forums, how-to's and more.
- http://docs.mepislovers.org - MEPIS Documentation Wiki
- Inside MEPIS Semi-official blog for MEPIS.
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