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How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5?
How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5?
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7353 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1185 times 
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Post # 275877
 How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5?Being as M11 has a better KDE 4, better video drivers, and all-around updated packages? I'm asking because I wonder if it's worth maintaining packages for the 8.5 community repo any longer, if most have migrated up to 11.
I can understand some staying with 8.0 and KDE 3.5 on older machines, so don't have any problems with maintaining what we can on that platform. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
| Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:15 am |
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:21 am Posts: 1496 Location: albuquerque Has thanked: 70 times Have thanks: 90 times
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Post # 275878
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? I skipped past 8.5 and went from M8 to M11 (even though I still have a copy of M8 on my drive), so I don't know if I should vote "I'm upgrading to 11." Nice to know that 8.0 will still be maintained to some degree, though.
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| Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:41 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9156 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2707 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 275879
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? I agree, moving to 11 for packagers is only right. You all do a tremendous job and doing anything for 8.5 isn't a good idea.
_________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
| Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:24 am |
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Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? .
The poll needs a third option: I want/need both. Since that option is unavailable, I had to vote for cold, dead hands. _________________ Gigabyte 7ZXE, AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 160GB, 1.5GB, XP, M11, M8.5, Wheezy IBM ThinkPad T43, Intel Pentium M (1.73GHz), 60GB, 1GB, XP, Mepis 11 |
| Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:32 am |
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MEPIS Novice  Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:00 am Posts: 4 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 275882
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? Sticking with 8.0. For me, KDE 4 is nothing but a slowdown for basic things like file management when I'm actually producing some work. Ksnapshot in KDE 4, for instance, is not as fast and good for my purposes. Some of the community backports for 8.0 have come in handy and that's why I have been using Mepis for some time now. Thanks for the continuing availability of 8.0.
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| Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:23 am |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:43 am Posts: 2235 Location: Nederweert-Eind, The Netherlands Has thanked: 20 times Have thanks: 120 times
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Post # 275884
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? On my laptops (which are used wirelessly) I use M8.5 since both of my Ralinktech based wireless adapters (RT2870 and RT2860) don't work with the 2.6.36 kernel in M11, neither with staging driver nor with compiled .deb from the latest Ralinktech source packages.
On my desktops I use M11. Sticking with M8.5 on my laptops is not a Mepis problem; it's Ralinktech which hasn't updated its driver packages yet for newer kernels. Since I use my laptops 95% of the time I very rarely use M11. Ko _________________ Ko Bros |
| Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:22 am |
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MEPIS is cool! 
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Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? The wife won't let me upgrade her from 8.0. She is perfectly content with it. I'd have to pry it from her cold dead hands while being beat with a large stick.
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| Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:55 am |
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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:49 pm Posts: 321 Location: Adelaide, OZ Has thanked: 116 times Have thanks: 40 times
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Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? I, too, am sticking with 8.5 on the laptop, but have 11 on the desktops.
Yes, there should have been a third option "using both". |
| Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:21 am |
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 Joined: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:23 am Posts: 242 Location: Perth AU Has thanked: 1 time Have thanks: 14 times
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Post # 275895
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? Nah - staying right here - on M8.5 :)
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| Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:28 am |
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MEPIS Rules!  Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:50 am Posts: 273 Location: Windsor, Ontario Canada Has thanked: 39 times Have thanks: 61 times
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Post # 275900
Re: How many are sticking with MEPIS 8.5? When does the M12 beta cycle start?
 _________________ AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor, Nvidia GTS 450, LG W2042TQ (1680x1050)/ViewSonic VP191b(1280x1024), Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless, 8GB RAM M11-64, +sid, +KDE SC 4.9.5, liquorix 3.7.0-4 , Nvidia 313.18 
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