Goodbye, MepisLite

Can anticapitalista tolerate another "Bravo!" for antiX? I hope so...

I've been using all versions of Mepis on various boxes over the last couple of years, but my heart was always in MepisLIte. Light, fast, and stable--it never disappointed. But this evening I held my breath and wiped MepisLite off my old laptop and installed antiX final.

My first response: This was the easiest and fastest installation I've every done, of *any* OS. No glitches, no retries. It took maybe ten minutes. Configuration takes a little getting used to, but my applications are all set up at the end of an evening, and (a) everything works, and (b) nothing is harder than you'd find in learning Xfce or any other wm.

Second response: I like anticapitalista's choice of applications, balancing what's simple and light with what's genuinely useful.

Now I'm curious about comments from the MepisLite crowd. We've been hounding Warren for a new Lite. I'm wondering whether there's any way this doesn't do the job. You get more speed, more lightness, and finally the MepisLite user can choose whether to stick with the older applications or move to newer stuff (upgrading Abiword and Kword had been simply impossible for a long time--not a bad thing, unless one needed the latest Open Document conversion filters).

Next on my agenda:

1) Testing out how easily selected KDE applications can be installed

2) Experimenting with configuring modem detection (If antiX is targeting those old Windows 98 boxes, a lot of them are still using Lucent modems)

So thanks again to anticapitalista. He's given us a Mepis that we can recommend not only to users of older systems but to anyone who wants a sanely minimalist OS to configure as they like.

--malanrich