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Found this one on my Google archive

#1 Post by Ruud_Kuin »

Hi all,

Just a blast from the past.
An advertorial I once made for Warren, back in June 2007.
How's Mepis and crew anyway?

Best, Ruud
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#2 Post by Jerry3904 »

Thanks, Ruud, fun to see! People had such hopes then...

Mepis is moribund, crew is fine.

BTW: we would love to have you work with us on the art for MX 15 (not yet in active development) if you have the time and interest.
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#3 Post by Ruud_Kuin »

Hi Jerry;

What is MX15 exactly, the Mepis successor or replacement?
I'm not into designing wallpapers and icons very much lately, but if you need some graphics material, I'll be glad to help. Post me a mail with your requests.

Best, Ruud
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#4 Post by Jerry3904 »

What is MX15 exactly, the Mepis successor or replacement?
http://mepiscommunity.org/mx

Thanks for the offer about graphics--we'll be back...
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#5 Post by Adrian »

Hey Ruud! Nice to see you around. We are doing fine, check out MX-14 a Xfce based distro developed by antiX and Mepis communities with a lot of Mepis tools. I worked to improve Mepis installer and the rest of the tools, I fixed some bugs and added some, I think, nice features. While not an "official" successor (it can't be because Mepis was pretty much an one-man-show, and also MX is not a KDE distro) I think it's at least as good as old Mepis releases, actually better, antiX devs did an amazing job and this distro uses very little memory and flies on any machine.

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#6 Post by lucky9 »

The MX series (MX 14 up to 14.4) have been extremely fast and stable. It's been very easy for newcomers to Linux and very competent for anyone who's familiar with it. Lots of options. A great Meta-Package Installer and other MX tools to make a lot of things very easy. Above all it has been based on the idea of ease of use for everyone. So it's the spiritual descendant of Mepis.
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#7 Post by Ruud_Kuin »

Hi all;

Thanks for your replies! Good to read that it's become a speedy descendant...
Would it be light enough and be an option to eventually install on a Raspberry Pi?

Nice evening from Holland!

Regards, Ruud
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#8 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Hi Ruud, very nice evening indeed, the sun finally poked through the rainy day. :smile: Good to see you popping in!
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#9 Post by timkb4cq »

Ruud_Kuin wrote:Would it be light enough and be an option to eventually install on a Raspberry Pi?
Theoretically it could be done - but all the packages would have to recompiled for the arm processor so it's not likely anyone will actually do it instead of using the already available Raspbian.
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#10 Post by Stevo »

I know now how to cross-compile one-shot armhf packages on my machine (all build-deps provided in Debian repo), and have done so, but by doing so with QEMU and pbuilder, if you have to backport something else to build the main package, (i.e. a new libcec2 for kodi) that requires setting up a local repo on your machine and some more manual configuration for pbuilder to hook onto that repo.

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