Star Linspire Five-O Review
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Jul 2005 02:17 UTC, submitted by Swank1
Linspire If you are looking for a desktop Linux with all the ease and user-friendliness of OS X, Linspire Five-O is a great option. It may not be the best for advanced users, but home and SOHO users will be happy with its performance, support, and great looks, the review says.
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RE[2]: not a huge fan.. but it's ok
by on Mon 1st Aug 2005 07:18 UTC in reply to "RE: not a huge fan.. but it's ok"

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Heh? :/

"Not that SimplyMepis is that easy to use.
Just two examples:

2)Setting up an ADSL connection in Mepis is far from trivial."

What do you mean? :/

I've installed SimplyMepis on several computers and I've never had to do one single thing to configure an ADSL connection. The connection, the ethernet cards, even multiple cards have always been detected and configured automatically during the Mepis installation process.

Nevertheless, you've completely lost me with that statement! :/

Have you even tried Mepis? If so, what stage was it in? Alpha? :o

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i think MAYBE he mant ppoe which is sometimes troublesome but all in all I just think he is repeating stuff he heard..... overlook and ignore ;)

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Anonymous Penguin Member since:
2005-07-06

"2)Setting up an ADSL connection in Mepis is far from trivial."

What do you mean? :/ "

I mean that I have never been able to successfully setup pppoe, which for instance is a trivial task in Kanotix or, indeed, Linspire.
And please tell that rude person that I never say anything which doesn't come from my own experience.

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Anonymous Penguin Member since:
2005-07-06

"Have you even tried Mepis? If so, what stage was it in? Alpha? :o"

I have tried *every single release*

If you want to know the whole story, there was a time when I was a beta tester.
And in fact Mepis has a small but important contribution from me. Without it Mepis would be a lot less popular today, because of thousands of angry new users having their Windows partition destroyed.

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