It’s a no-brainer fixing these issues, but I still would have preferred it if things had worked out-of-the-box. Video ripping with K3b, however, required the installation of the necessary libraries, and KMPlayer refused to play VCDs and encoded DVDs. The versatile K3b 1.0.5 took care of all my burning and audio ripping needs. KsCD handled all my audio CDs, and the inclusion of w32codecs was welcome. I can play MP3s without a fuss with Amarok 1.4.10-superb sound quality here too. Of course, I would have preferred Kaffeine instead of KMPlayer. Neither did I have any problems with dropping frames (picture quality), and assorted default video settings. On the multimedia front, I didn’t face any trouble playing DVDs with the default KMPlayer 0.10.0c. In a nutshell: everything just worked! Of course, these peripherals are fully supported under most other distros too, unless there’s something royally wrong with them. Reading and writing to NTFS drives was a breeze. I have had absolutely no problem with detection of my Realtek 8139 network card, monitor resolution, HP scanner, HP Deskjet 3940 printer, USB drives, digital camera and AC 97 audio. The Home icon is present on the task bar.
JBIDWATCHER SOURCE INSTALL
The vertically-aligned desktop icons include the MEPIS Install icon and MEPIS User Manual. The cool blue water surface for the desktop wallpaper looks absolutely stunning (Figure 1).
JBIDWATCHER SOURCE PASSWORD
The password for the root user is ‘root’ while that for the user demo is ‘demo’. An excellent set of MEPIS Tools similar to Mandriva Control Center (MCC) or openSUSE Yastįirst impressions Figure 1: The out-of-the-box desktopīooting into the KDE desktop took about a minute and a half.Virtualisation is easily supported by downloading KVM 84 and libvirt 0.6.0 from the MEPIS 8.0 package pool.BIND 0.9.6 and IPv6, enabled out-of-the-box.Guarddog firewall configuration utility.Select the relevant image from distros_iso directory of the DVD and burn it into a blank CD.
JBIDWATCHER SOURCE ISO
Well, the good news is that this month’s LFY has included the 32-bit ISO in the accompanying DVD. SimplyMEPIS8 is a live/install CD available for 32-bit and 64-bit PCs. It has community inputs to the desktop theme and user manual, an auto-running intro on the CD, and some updates to the ‘assistants’.
In fact, this is the first release from Warren Woodford, founder and lead developer of MEPIS Linux, along with the MEPISlovers community, which makes this version 8 very special.
Built on Debian 5.0 ‘Lenny’, you can certainly expect SimplyMEPIS 8 to be rock solid on the stability front. It was on February 24, 2009, that SimplyMEPIS 8 was finally out after a long wait of more than a year. A few distros like LinuxMint, DreamLinux and PCLinuxOS do have these qualities, but it is SimplyMEPIS 8 that takes the crown for this review. Having the ‘right asset’ among applications for daily work is just too good to walk away from.
Beautiful looks get a second and third greedy gaze. The tummy bulge of applications is despised at first sight. If you are like me, choosing the ‘Right One’ is always difficult.
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