:OSNews: SimplyMepis 2004.06 or: Gnome Guy Goes KDE
OSNews: SimplyMepis 2004.06 or: Gnome Guy Goes KDE Jan 3, 2005, 21 :15 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6909 reads) (Other stories by Christian Paratschek)
"Most of the readers here probably know from my previous reviews that I am an avid Gnome user. Thus I prefer Gnome-centric distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. This time, however, I wanted to give KDE another try. So the first thing I had to do was choose a proper distribution. I hesitated between Novell/Suse, Mandrake and Mepis, but finally decided to settle for SimplyMepis 2004.06. This review is kind of split: it is a review of SimplyMepis 2004.06, but it is also a look at a tested and proven implementation of KDE from a Gnome-user perspective. I am fully aware that SimplyMepis 2004.06 has KDE 3.2.3, an already outdated version of the KDE desktop. I still chose this distribution, mainly because I was interested in the small hype around Mepis Linux..."
