About MEPIS and MEPIS Linux
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1. Why did you create MEPIS Linux?
I was a frustrated user. For 3 years I tried Corel, Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, and Mandrake again. Finally I gave up.
On November 21, 2002, I decided that to have a desktop that worked the way I thought a computer should work, I'd have to do it myself.
2. What does MEPIS mean? Where did the name come from?
Originally the name was discovered accidentially and was available when the MEPIS Linux project started.
3. How do you pronounce MEPIS?
The most common pronunciation is similar to "memphis" but with the extra characters removed.
4. Where does Linux software come from?
Linux was invented by Linus Torvalds.
Linux software packages are developed and combined to work together by teams of open software programmers worldwide.
Like several other flavors of Linux, the MEPIS core is built on the excellent work of the Debian team.
The GUI desktop is developed by the KDE team using the tools and foundation classes provided by Trolltech.
The unique components in MEPIS Linux were developed by Warren Woodford and tested by Team MEPIS.
I've been looking myself...
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I've been looking for a definition of MEPIS...and thus far, the city in
Ancient Egypt is where I can track it's meaning to - given the Pharoh
penguin. The title of this distribution is most likely take from the
Egyptian pronounciation of the word, which would be sound phoentically
like "MEPIS". In actuality, this is how the word is said, however,
given the dialect of the Southern United States, the word transfrormed
into "MEMPHIS".
You can read more about this topic online here.
Update...
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Basically, there is a whole other side to this MEPIS "naming" story as of 8:05PM Central Daylight Time 03/16/2005.
Lots of background to it...if read the news, and caught the interview (airing today) involving it, you'll be privy to it! Enjoy!
As far as I was aware, MEPIS
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As far as I was aware, MEPIS is an acronym (according to wikipedia). The specifics escape me at the moment.
Mepis seems to be what I was looking for!
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Mepis seem to be what I've been looking for all these years. I've liked Redhat/Fedora;fell in love with Suse; adored Gentoo; loved Knoppix; gone out with Vector and even experimented with the Chilean LinuXp! So far I'm hooked on Mepis especially with its support for the broadcom 802.11b chipsets "out of the box"(on my Asus L5800c which no other distro runs without having to manually configure ndiswrapper!) I really think we have a serious contender against XP here - I am not joking! I've already rescued data from my old computer using the Simply Mepis live CD!!!!
Regards from Gibraltar
"Linux Rocks on the Rock"
Chances are that Memphis is
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Chances are that Memphis is actually a corruption of Mepis which sounds more Egyptian than anything else!!
Linux rocks
"...sock it to Bill!!"
The MEPIS moniker
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When you say "discovered the name accidentally..." what does that mean?
Does MEPIS have an inherent meaning, or is it an acronym for something?