MEPIS
SimplyMEPIS ( Managerial, Educational and Personal Information System ) is a distribution based on Debian GNU / Linux Linux distribution. The distribution was by Warren Woodford ( from Morgantown, West Virginia, USA) from November 2002 onwards developed independently because he was dissatisfied with the various Linux distributions. Woodford's goal is to develop a distribution that does what the user wants. Linux distributions such as SuSE, Red Hat or Mandriva in his opinion, for novice users without IT expertise to difficult to understand and use it. The name is said to be named after Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the inhabitants speak their city from similar Mepis.
Details
When the distribution is a live CD that can be tried out without installation, but also an installation on the hard disk is explicitly supported. The Linux distribution has automatic hardware detection and configuration, as well as the ability to change the sizes of the NTFS partitions. Other features include the ACPI power saving mode, the WiFi support, anti- aliased TrueType fonts, as well as a firewall. As a graphical user interface that KDE is widespread.
Developments
The distribution was originally developed under the name of MEPIS, but today only carries the developing company. Early 2004, MEPIS has been split into two versions, SimplyMEPIS and ProMEPIS. The main distribution was changed in the meantime in SimplyMEPIS. In addition, a commercial variant called ProMEPIS is scheduled for enterprises and developers, but not published until today. A the end of 2004, first published, commercial and specially developed for Germany version under the name SphinxOS was already in mid-2005 because of excessive competition - never again - especially by Ubuntu. A group of volunteers then began to continue the distribution as a community project, but this project ultimately failed. Background for this were to trademark problems because both the rights to the brand SphinxOS as well as to, for example, the installer and the system center of distribution in the Third was and is.
Version 6.5 is technically based on Ubuntu, so as to benefit from its developments. In June 2007, the MEPIS lead developer Warren Woodford, however, announced that in the future, but now back on Debian GNU / Linux to set, because their expectations were not met on Ubuntu. Especially in old versions of Ubuntu only errors will be rectified, but added no new software. After several delays SimplyMEPIS 7.0 was published on 23 December 2007. It contains several innovations, including newer packages such as Kernel 2.6.22.14 or OpenOffice.org 2.3.
Shortly after the release of MEPIS tools under an Apache license these have been further improved by members of the worldwide MEPIS community for the release of version 8.0. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is based on Debian GNU / Linux 5.0 ( "Lenny" ) and contains the Linux kernel 2.6.27-18. Among the numerous updated software packages include KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0, and Firefox 3.0.6.
In addition to the "official" repositories of MEPIS will be from the MEPIS community maintain their own repositories, each containing current program updates as well as additional software packages.
All Mepis packages of version 8 are compatible with Debian Lenny and can also be installed on a computer with Debian Lenny.
While SimplyMEPIS CD images are available as a free download, encourages MEPIS satisfied users to book paid access to premium servers, in which the only source of income of the company is.
Mepis antix
Since the release of SimplyMEPIS version 6.5 is available with antiX MEPIS a sleek derivative for older computers from 64 MB of RAM. AntiX MEPIS is supported by the community and is available free of charge. As Fluxbox window manager used. The current version of MEPIS antiX M12 appeared on 7 August 2012.