Free-Bees.co.uk: SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 [Review]

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"So, here it is again--the traditional spiel about this particular distribution. Like so many others, SimplyMEPIS is based on Debian, and remains consistently in the top ten on Distrowatch. That makes it pretty popular--but can it stand up against SUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu?

"It all starts off with a single CD, which is fairly interesting. Why? Because this CD doubles up as both a LiveCD and the installation CD. This allows you to test the distribution before installing it, and saves you having to download another CD for installation. Personally, I think this is an excellent idea--you could show your friends MEPIS using the CD, and then start installing it within a few clicks. Here's to hoping that some other distributions pick up on the idea..."

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