Why i personally come to mepis... (Score 1)

here is why i personally come to mepis : i wanted a debian distribution (i really like debian mentality - and i used to be pleased with a woody installed on an old desktop that is enough old to permit me to install it quite as-is with a stable debian...) but i wasn't able to compile and do all this blessing things for a newbie when you just start - so i give mepis a try and you know what it worked OFF-THE-BOX on my brand new cutting-edge technology thinkpad t40p (the kind of notebook a newbie like me would have lost many many nights to make it work with a debian but also that real nerds still fight to have a fully supported system - just check http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo /linux-thinkpad). This first successful try was with mepis 2003.08. It worked but had things to improve (hardware support like WiFi and others). then i contacted Warren, nothing more to say that this guy is absolutely marvellous, he listened, provided help and advices, took comments into account. And finally he helped me to have a fully supported linux notebook and greetings/regards to him for that. i really think notebook users should give mepis a try and even more if they are newbies to linux. i agree there are improvements that should be done, mepis is still young (maybe just come and help?) even if this 2003.10 is excellent. But i do believe mepis has its own place as a linux distribution, at first this could be seen like a good livecd or even an easy step to debian but then you will see it is a real distribution. about the fact that team mepis should better help debian or linux community, well, at least for me, looks like it is already done : they helped me to switch to a debian based distribution but also convinced me to help them to translate it to french (mepis was at least for me an invitation to get involvled). btw you should also know that Warren worked on mepis only since 1 year , and that 'team mepis' is only one month old : yes, mepis is young, and perfectible but constructive comments are really welcome! about the mepis name, well, this could be seen like a funny or silly name but what it's named isn't as important as what it does; and how one pronounces the name is a personal choice, but it's meant to be pronounced the same as if it were spelled meppis or mehpis. Also it seems i had read something apout being an acronym for 'Managerial Educational and Personal Information Systems'. (see http://www.mepis.com) that were my 0.2 cents d'euro.