“MEPIS basically claims to beat all other distributions at the
major aspects of desktop-computing, as it claims to feature ‘unique
hardware detection and configuration superior to any others’ as
well as being ‘pre-configured for simplicity and ease-of-use,
you’re productive in a matter of minutes’ and it claims to ‘include
the very best business and multimedia programs.’ Such huge claims
gives huge expectations and that’s exactly how I intend to review
this distribution: I expect nothing less than the perfect
distribution, in all desktop-aspects–especially, as always, in the
field of user-friendliness!“MEPIS is an Ubuntu-based distribution, using KDE for the
desktop. It includes a vast array of free software (not just free
as in open-source, but also closed-source free such as Skype). The
first public release of MEPIS came in May 2003 and development has
seemingly been going strong ever since…”