MEPIS Community Forum

(Not sure if this is the best place for this post...)

Following up on a discussion in another thread, it seems to me that we should get community remasters listed and available on mepiscommunity.org, with appropriate caveat emptors. I guess MEPIS 8 and onward.

Questions:
1) What remasters are out there, and how can we get the iso's?
2) Any criteria for listing? I suppose at the very least they should be tested in a VM to make sure they work?

There are a few M8 remasters here: http://mepis.gabston-howell.org/download/remasters/, but that list is well out of date.

Thanks.

BUMP

Anubis-Linux is a distro designed for Linux newbies, system programmers, and computer science enthusiasts. It was originally based on SimplyMepis 8, but now it consists of software mostly from Debian Sid.

AL features:

* free documentation to help you learn using and configuring Linux, write software, and more
* a lot of low-level system programmer's tools (assemblers, compilers, debuggers) 1*
* a selection of pentest tools (Wireshark, Packeth, kismet and many more)
* can run many Win32 and DOS programs, and it can compile such programs as well
* is easily remasterable, and offers tutorials and tools for homebrew OS development 2*
* offers a selection of docs and libraries for game developers (OpenGL, SDL, Allegro)
* Debian-based, and uses customised 2.6.31 kernel to support Sqlzma compression
* uses KDE 3.5.10 as Desktop Environment (love it or hate it, I love it)

The older versions have a Mepis 8.0/8.5 Mepis base, they all work swell, EXT4 installer.

http://anubislinux.tk/



The Gnome Versions are Mepis 8.0/8.5, One has EXT4 installer.

Has Gabston-Howell lost interest in Mepis?

Just lets say he has have more pressing commitments with regards to family, and in the circumstances the last thing on his mind is Mepis,

I still work on canabix sometimes. It's a rolling release based on debian testing, with LXDE desktop. I do use some packages from Mepis Community, and I originally started with Mepis 8, upgraded to testing, and removed all the Mepis packages and nearly all of KDE. I think both KDE and Gnome are on the wrong track, and I like LXDE very well.

http://community.canabix.org/smf/index.php?topic=65.0

Briefly, you can download it this way:
wget -Nc http://arnoweb.net/canabix/canabix.iso --full version 1.2GB
canalite.iso -- lite version 690MB (fits on a CD)

now featuring towo's frickelplatz kernel!!

Also, both these iso's are isohybrid -- that means you can boot from a stick -- build your usb like this:
dd if=canabix.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
or
dd if=canalite.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

UserID is 'canabix', password is 'live'
to get root, sudo su

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The latest iso was built in April, it could be almost time to build a new one, or maybe I'll wait until I have a 3.0 kernel thoroughly tested. I use slh, towo, or liquorix kernels, and the liquorix 3.0 is not available yet.

Mike

what ever happened to the remaster script? I used to play around with that, decompressing the .iso, chrooting in, using xnest to check stuff out graphically. The only problem I had with it was that I couldn't install from a remastered image, even when I held back upgrading the kernel.

Has that been completely forgotten about with other tools being made available?

nm

there are the LXDE and Xfce remasters by marcos based on Mepis 8.0.06 that were up as torrents at linuxtracker.

The remaster script works just fine for MEPIS 11 (and antiX-M11)

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... ing_script