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.

The primary force behind the site is Warren Woodford, who founded the MEPIS Linux in November 2002, due to frustration of the several distributions he had tried and inspired by his experience as a NeXT developer, he began working on a distribution that “just works”. More developers have joined in later on.

The distribution was originally based directly on the Debian-tree, but has lately moved to use Ubuntu as its base. The distribution is free of charge and can be downloaded directly from one of the mirrors as a combo live-CD/install-CD.

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