KnoLinux: Simply Mepis 6.0-4 Beta 4--A Gift from the MEPIS Gods 64 Bit That Actually Works | Linux Today

KnoLinux: Simply Mepis 6.0-4 Beta 4–A Gift from the MEPIS Gods 64 Bit That Actually Works

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2007

[ Thanks to Kevin
Kleinsmith
for this link. ]

“Last fall we wrote a review that was generally well received on
Simply Mepis 6.0. This is a very nice package out of West Virginia
that takes KDE to Ubuntu in a more polished and solid way than even
Kubuntu can do. Much was made by people, even on Distrowatch about
little coming from the Mepis camp over the last couple of months,
and then right around Christmas, sure enough here comes a nice
little improvement package and much to my suprise a package
offering 64 bit support.

“Now, some may have seen the listing of my older eMachines m6805
laptop, which I have been struggling to get native 64 bit OS’ on
for almost 3 years now…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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