Rick Lehrbaum tested and compared the performance of seven Linux distros on an old IBM ThinkPad. SimplyMEPIS edged out the competition, receiving a perfect 20 out of 20 score. Click here to read the whole story at desktoplinux.com.

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Here's what MEPIS user Gerald Cortez had to say about the latest SimplyMEPIS release: "It's been three days since I've been playing around with the final release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0, and the words t

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Click here to take a screenshot tour of SimplyMEPIS 6.0 courtesy of OSDir.com.

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MEPIS is featured on the cover of the May issue of Linux Format magazine. Included in the issue is a MEPIS DVD and a guide to installing MEPIS, as well as an interview with Warren. If you live in the US, you can pick up a copy of the magazine at Barnes and Noble stores.

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From a SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 review written by MEPIS user Gerald Cortez: "Well, from my arsenal of different Linux flavors, this distribution is yet the easiest that I found. From installation to its actual use, I never saw such distribution with so much versatility and it didn't let my fingers touch the command line. Well.. almost, because I did execute one command to update the packages using apt-get. But overall, this distro didn't make me sweat."

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Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reviewed the final release of SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 for Linux.com, saying, "I wouldn't hesitate to recommend SimplyMEPIS for novice and intermediate users who are looking for a desktop Linux distro that requires little time to get up to speed."  Click here to read more!

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"Make mine a Lite, a MEPIS Lite" says Steven Vaughan-Nichols in his review of MEPISLite. He shares his opinion of running MEPISLite on "a white-box system with an 800MHz Via processor, 128MB of RAM and a 20 GB hard drive. This box barely ran Windows ME, and cried like a beaten dog at the thought on running Windows XP... On this system, which might fetch $25 at a yard sale, I was able to happily run not just a bare-bones operating system, but a system that used essentially the entire KDE suite." Read the full story here.

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This review at GeekTimeLinux.com says, "The crew at Simply MEPIS have all but eliminated the learning curve for new users and in talking with some of the old time Linux users, they find the distro mature and containing the programs they need... in my opinion, One SWEET distribution." Read the entire review here.

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Charles T. wrote this overview of SimplyMEPIS at reviewlinux.com.

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This review at kitchentablecomputers.com calls SimplyMEPIS "a fast, sleek, polished Debian distribution with a generous complement of well-chosen apps that will enable most users to work productively immediately upon installation -- and with no additional expense."

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