[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“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…”