Giving MEPIS a go

So why this blog?

Mostly for me. It is not intended to be read by others, but just in case someone does drop by, here goes this post.

I find myself installing or reinstalling operating systems quite often, and from one time to the next, I manage to forget how I did this or that to get my system just the way I want.

And why MEPIS?

I normally use Ubuntu, thats what I have on my laptop. But on this old box it was a complete disaster. Its Internet speed was 800 Kb/s, when the laptop gets 10Mb/s off the same connection.

I imagine It's something with the network card recognition, and it could be fixed (things like disabling IPv6 didn't improve the speed). But I'm lazy, and decided to give a try to other Debian based distributions that would work correctly with my Ethernet device out of the box.

First I tried Debian it self. Was ok, but I thought I could try some more. That Epiphany thing for Firefox put me off.

I Installed MEPIS and liked the feel from the beginning, so I said to myself. Why not give it a go?

Went for version 6.5