Mepis Linux
MEPIS Linux is a LiveCD and super easy to install to harddisk. KDE Desktop Environment.
username: demo pw: demo
username: root pw: root
note: no longer mirror mepis
Applications on Mepis: (a few of them)
Mepis has KDE, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, K3b, Gaim, Skype, Azureus, GIMP, xine, Audacity, xmms, Scribus, Samba, Apache
Plugins and codecs pre-installed on Mepis:
Flash, Java, Quicktime, RealPlayer10, Divx, Xvid, Windows Media
Mepis Highlights:
LiveCD (kiosk or test hardware compatibility), Winmodems, DSL/PPPoE, Wireless cards, Synaptic (GUI to apt-get), OS Control Center makes it easy to install to harddrive, install Nvidia and ATI drivers, setup wireless connection, etc.
MEPIS Guides
Installation and Configuration
Installing Mepis Linux
Installing Mepis Linux to dual boot with Windows
Mouse, Montior, Video driver, Network
Getting Sound to work
Japanese
Installing and configuring Japanese input system (dated)
OpenOffice and Mozilla inputting and printing Japanese
Learning Japanese
Links
Mepis on DistroWatch
Using Japanese in Mepis
mepislovers.org active forum
Mepis Screenshots galore and overview
Mepis official homepage
Dev mailing list
Mepis Notes
-To mount an external firewire drive with an ntfs partition
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
append doscsi in the kernel line for both kernels then reboot
kernel (hd0,0) blah blah blah vga=788 doscsi
now turn on your ext firewire drive and fdisk -l will show it.
vi /etc/fstab and add the following line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/drive ntfs noauto,users,dev,umask=0002 0 0
now just mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive or use KDiskFree to do it with a GUI.
You also might need to chmod -R 555 /mnt/drive
-Speed up OpenOffice (cuts loading time in half)
su
oooprelink -f
Wireless 802.11g connection running on Mepis Live CD
Notes: I use 'region Japan' to set wireless router to channel 13 and don't broadcast my ESSID. I've given up on 128-bit WEP and WPA-SK security.
su
iwconfig wlan0 essid topsecret
ifconfig wlan0 up
pump -i wlan0
ping www.google.com
Wireless 802.11g connection with Mepis installed (not running a LiveCD)
open OS Control Center
Network Interfaces
Wireless (tab) ESS ID: topsecret
Status (tab) click Start wlan0
Connection will work right away and always after rebooting too.
Installing Xfce 4.2 on Simply Mepis (only 16.3MB download)
I prefer Xfce 4.2 over Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3
su
vi /etc/apt/sources.list (add the following two lines)
deb http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
apt-get update
apt-get install -t testing xfld-desktop
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and choose XFCE 4.2..done.
For more detailed instructions go here.
Updated Jun 24, 2005
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