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http://www.mepis.org/node/9988

Rich

Great! - Looking forward to reading your postings and finding out more of what makes Mepis - Mepis, and the thoughts of the person/people who created this great OS!

I, like acesabe, look forward to reading your provided information and thoughts regarding Mepis. As a footnote, I feel I need to say -- I'm anticipating Mepis 6.0 to come out of beta/rc so much that my skin is tingling. I really cannot wait to give 6.0 a try. So, needless to say, thanks Warren and crew! Thank you all very much for your hard work and great effort to collectively compile a wonderful distro.

Too busy to blog, but not too busy to comment to the press...thanks for clearing things up! Your work on MEPIS 6 is really appreciated, as well as really important--probably the best Linux Desktop distro, period. We look forward to your comments here, when things slow down...should that happen.

This sure came floating back to the surface, didn't it?

Home of the Point-N-Click Help Files
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I just have a few comments.

If you want to bring more people to linux and Mepis then you need to make it work with other hardware. pda's and phones.
These are the things people use and the one stoper for those I have tryed to get to use Mepis. I have had 3 differant makes and am running it now. Think more of what a newbe with a laptop wants and try to make it easy for them to use all that oether hardware they carry with them.
I am not a programer so I can't do it.

Thanks for letting me get away form windows. I am a linuz man now.

Charles Clark

Warren, I am an active MEPIS user. From time to time in the past I have helped answer questions over in the forums, and I regularly do so over at the USALUG, where quite a few people, myself included, use MEPIS. I've also been a past financial contributer, and may be able to contribute again later this year.

One guy who tests and sometimes uses SimplyMEPIS generally likes it, but he had a comment that kind of struck a chord, so I thought I'd share it with you to give you an idea what some people are saying. This one fella said he found it surprising that the latest release of Firefox was added to the updates within a few days of it being released, yet Open Office has been available for three months in the newest release, yet it has not yet been updated. His point was that Open Office is a pain to build yourself because the OO project has such a crappy installer, whereas those who are hot for Firefox can get it easily. This one guy said it angers him that the current version of OO is not available yet.

I think he has a good point. Good stable software that is well known like OO is something worth keeping up to date once a stable release is available. Worth considering for the repository. It may take a few hours to build but would greatly save consumers in convenience - the very reason many of us choose to use SimplyMEPIS.

As for me, I am OK with a reasonably current product set, but I do feel that keeping a bit more up to date on the major desktop components: Browsers, Email clients, and Office Suites adds product value, and keeping up with driver development helps, too. I think you do an awesome job, just wanted to give you a chance to hear feedback from a forum group that is generally positive about the distro but occasionally has some gripes like the one I shared. Keep up the great work! I certainly appreciate it, and I expect to be subscribing to a future release this year.

My favorites were when you had those subscriptions where you could directly access the server. Do you still have those or are there any thoughts of resurrecting them? That would be my favorite way to test and then share my thoughts with the USALUG (and here) to keep promoting the MEPIS vision and support its small but capable staff!

Brian Masinick

Brian, point your friend to the links found here: http://www.mepis.org/node/13279

Unless your friend has a legitimate, bug-oriented reason to move to the later version of OOo, I'd have to say that his is merely the quest of having the "newest and shiniest" toy; and he's be better-off with staying with the version that is installed with MEPIS.

Firefox revs faster than OOo does, and the changes are more germane to the Linux security context than the changes found in OOo; which is why Ff is further up the totem pole than OOo is.

If nothing else, serving as a dire warning to others is not a bad thing to be.

Thanks!

I tried the RC 3, it worked REALLY well, as I've come to expect, so I downloaded the final and also found it to work really well on both my home Dell Dimension 4100 and my newer work laptop, an IBM Thinkpad T42.

I ordered the SimplyMEPIS 32 DVD and I have been promoting this release over at the USALUG - which I've been doing all along anyway.

Glad I finally scraped up enough cash to show my appreciation, once again, for all the fine work that's been done. I've financially supported MEPIS in the past, but I've been in tight financial straights the past couple of years, so I've had to resort to testing, using, and promoting the work, which is hopefully appreciated, too.

Glad to continue to promote this release, and I passed on the information about Open Office and the manner in which the repositories are planned to be utilized in this release and in the near future.

Keep up the great work!

Brian Masinick