pclinuxonline ask "is mepis still alive"

That's because on Distrowatch there was the idiotic commentary that by the end of this year one of MEPIS or PCLinuxOS distributions will disappear.

Answer: none will disappear.

Message to Distrowatch editor: talk about other distributions like that. With the new MEPIS 32 and MEPIS 64bit comming soon MEPIS is alive and kicking, it's no mistery why MEPIS has been for so long and will continue to be right in top 5 at Distrowatch (actually MEPIS is on 3rd position on 7 days statistics, way to go!)

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Answer: none will disappear.

Message to Distrowatch editor: talk about other distributions like that. With the new MEPIS 32 and MEPIS 64bit comming soon MEPIS is alive and kicking, it's no mistery why MEPIS has been for so long and will continue to be right in top 5 at Distrowatch (actually MEPIS is on 3rd position on 7 days statistics, way to go!)

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I believe he was referring to Mepis. The recent quote from distrowatch dated 12/18/06 says:

Another article from 08/28/06 says:

"I believe he was referring to Mepis."

Actually Ladislav (Distrowatch editor) was referring to PCLinuxOS. If you read further on in the comments on that day he mentions and apologises for his comment (#103)- he says:

"OK, it seems that I was wrong about PCLinuxOS and I am happy to see that its development continues. I recently booted into my 0.93a installation and was surprised to find that there were no updates - Texstar used to provide them fast, especially the major applications. That's why I thought that PCLinuxOS was losing its steam. I am also no longer on its dev mailing list - I couldn't take the posts and opinions of the list's moderator (not sure if he is still around or not), so I unsubscribed some time ago."

--Tony

If Ladoslav is at all serious about reporting on a distro's health, he should not be making assumptions based on the absence of information. It is tendentious, speculative and as we all know, plain wrong.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

...are greatly exaggerated (Mark Twain)

Apropos here, since Warren, Mepis, and a bunch-o-moderators are still here

Jon

SimplyMEPIS Value CD: $17.95
Amount saved not buying Windows Vista Ultimate: $399
Experience gained learning Mepis and helping others: Priceless

Hey Paul,

Well, Mepis installed easily enough and recognized my XP partition without error as well - BUT, try as I may, I can't seem to get smooth DVD playback. Verrry choppy. I'm not dependent upon XP for anything other than ease of use and configuration like Windows was to me, but if it can't play a DVD smoothly with 1.5Gb Ram on a 1.2Ghz that XP's playback flies with - this kid ain't moving. Suggestions are welcome if anyone has some.

Ideas?

Thanks!
Eis!

There are two possible fixes.

If your CD/DVD drive is reported as hd[something] (e.g. hdc, so starting with 'h '), you can try this:
- open a console
- su (password)
- hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hd[something]
- try playing a dvd now

if this works, you need to make it stick through reboots.
- Alt F2 (from within KDE)
- in popup type kdesu kwrite /etc/hdparm.conf
- at the end of file, add this:
command_line {
hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hd[something]
}
- save file and exit kwrite

If your DVD is reported as sd[something] (starting with 's'), do this:
- Alt-F2
- kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
- find the line that starts with 'kernel' and add:
combined_mode=libata
- save file and exit kwrite
- Alt F2
-kdeswu kwrite /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf,
- add line: options libata atapi_enabled=1
- save and exit
- reboot and see if it works

Newbie or not Newbie,
there's always a question

I'll give this a try. Heck, I just figured out how to tell what the drive was reported as...which is hdc, by the way. See, you guys give us hints and ideas to try, and learn as we go, and we're left to fumble around trying to figure out just how to decipher how to apply those words of wisdom. Hehehe.

i am relatively new to linux,i have tried almost everything that exists as far as linux distros' are concerned. my favorites are:
mepis, ubunto, and pclinux
i just don't see mepis going anywhere except for up, maybe i am wrong but, it just works and it's not bad to look at.
i prefer the KDE desktop over the GNOME that ubunto uses.
so mepis wins there....
pc linux has some really nice graphics and they've even included some nice games on their supergamer edition. but, it doesn't "just work".

p.s. tried windows vista and was very disappointed
mepis does a better job of recognizing my equipment and loading the proper drivers.

Mepis rocks. all we have to do is sort out that one man band problem out!

other than that I have to say that this distro just works for me. some times I for get about that I am using Mepis Linux because I get intrested into other things. I forget I'm using Linux for weeks at a time and never go to forums. you only have too look at my bookmarks in firefox to tell that LOL. or the files I have on my PC LOL

The only problem is that the usability suckss in all distros
really bad. some times I wonder if kde or gnome have ever heard of usability. I really believe they don"t know what it means or have never heard of such a word. by the way I hate gnome and ubuntu

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Not sure what you mean by usability. I find the "usability" of KDE first rate, as I understand the word. To me it means easily getting done what I need done, and MEPIS and KDE fill the bill.

Rich

Mepis comes with a really small black mouse cursor that has not been change for more than along time, it just fly's all over the place and to that I find my self opening programs that I don't which to use as well as some files have been deleted because of this!. there is bad usability right there!. do you think Mac or windows could sell an OS with a really small black mouse. It has to be the right size and it ain't. I have changed my mouse setings and the problem seems to be the same in other distros as well. what a thing to give to new users of mepis.

Change your SIG please!!! Too commercial links here.

Are you kidding? I love the black mouse cursor, I spend hours in other distro trying to figure out how to revert it back to this simple default, on the other hand if you don't like it you can always slect a different mouse theme: there's a white glass and a white glass in Settings -> Periferals -> Mouse -> Cursor theme tab

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