14 DAY TRIAL // The lightweight derivative of MEPIS, AntiX 7.0 RC1 was announced last night by the hard working team behind this project. This version comes with an improved look, including the wallpaper, all the reported bugs have been fixed and all the packages have been updated to be in sync with MEPIS 7.0 Beta 4 release.
MEPIS AntiX was created to work on very old computers. It is developed and maintained by the people behind the MEPIS community, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32-bit machines, such as a Pentium II with 64 MB RAM.
MEPIS highlights include:
Easy to Try
￭ Runs from Live CD before you install; ￭ Automatically configures itself to your PC hardware; ￭ Boot the MEPIS CD and, in about one minute, you can be using Linux.
Easy to Install
￭ Installation wizard guides you through simple installation step-by-step; ￭ It includes a disk partitioning tool with a familiar graphical interface; ￭ Is compatible with all versions of Microsoft WIndows.
Easy to Use
￭ Hundreds of applications are preinstalled and fully configured to be ready to use; ￭ Thousands of additional specialized applications are also available; ￭ The acclaimed apt-get system, from distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu, manages software download and installation/uninstallation; ￭ Most applications come with a Users Handbook in the KDE Help System.
Extra Features
￭ LIve CD is also a system repair and recovery disk; ￭ The CD image is compressed to provide over 1,900 software packages on one CD.
About MEPIS LLC
MEPIS LLC was founded in 2002 by computer industry veteran Warren Woodford to realize his personal vision for a version of Linux that was complete and secure, while also being easy to use and easy to install. MEPIS also provides Linux, OSX, and Windows related senior business and system analysis and cross-platform software development assistance to software companies and medium to large corporations.
You can download MEPIS AntiX right now from Softpedia.