Cybernightlife project is now powered by SimplyMEPIS

"Everyday Home and Small Business Computing" has been the core philisophy for the project, even during the OS/2 days.

I have tried all the major distributions, and have settled on SimplyMEPIS for the following reasons:

1. With much of my family still operating on W*****s, I need to be able to exchange data without much hassle.

2. I have hardware media players (a Cody MP-C827 MP3 player and an iPod nano 4G), two digital cameras (HP PhotoSmart M22 and a Vivitar Vivicam 3310) that produce stills and movies (in MPEG and AVI formats), a HP PSC1110 all-in-one device, a Zoom Microelectronics internal modem (Lucent/Agere-based), a CreativeLabs SoundBlaster Live! Value Edition, and a Boston Acoustics Digital BA735 speaker system. For this, I need a distribution that is capable of handling these devices and their media codecs with little hassle.

3. I want to be able to work more on the Cybernightlife project, and less time on system administration.

4. I am used to having software and web development tools on my systems.

5. Best of all, SimplyMEPIS is an American distribution!

SimplyMEPIS fits with the core philosophy of the Cybernightlife project, that is, Everyday Home and Small Business computing the Linux Way.

I am also happy to report that Cybernightlife is being maintained on a SimplyMEPIS-powered machine. I am using Bluefish for coding the HTML pages.

Oh, and I have a new ad-free URL for the project: http://cybernightlife.50webs.com

(Here is a little known fact about Cybernightlife: The Cybernightlife project originates from northwest Indiana.)