[ Thanks to Nobody for this link.
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“It’s time to give the latest version of SimplyMEPIS a
spin–this time, the version has jumped from 3.x to 6.0, along with
a change of base from Debian to Ubuntu. So, has it made any
difference?“MEPIS’s installation provided simple enough, although the
absence of a text based alternative is a little disappointing. The
first thing you must do is boot into the LiveCD, which showed that
a problem I had from the previous version of MEPIS still
exists–automatically detecting the resolution gives me 1024×768
rather than my usual 1280×1024, while manually selecting 1280×1024
before starting the LiveCD causes the monitor to complain that it
is out of range. I do not know the cause, but it is something that
doesn’t happen in both Ubuntu and Debian…”