“MEPIS was introduced to me originally by a fellow I met
completely randomly in a book store. I liked it a lot back then,
and subsequent versions have been solid, if not necessarily
noteworthy.“A few versions ago, MEPIS changed its underlying system from
one based on vanilla Debian to one based on Ubuntu. I was wary of
this at first, but it hasn’t changed what MEPIS represented to me:
a relatively easy to install, solid and fully-customizable
Debian/Ubuntu based distribution…”