Podcast Season 4 Episode 18

Graham Morrison | December 1, 2016 | Podcasts | 5 Comments

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Title: From Magna Carter to Snoopers Charter

In this episode: Welcome to the People’s Democratic Republic of the United Kingdom. Plus Jolla, Fedora 25, Pi SLES, lots of Finds and an excellent VotM.

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Graham Morrison

A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.

5 Comments
  1. Erik

    Regarding the polarized HDMI cables, I’ve seen this before with longer cables. I believe that the reason has something to do with bidirectionality making the cables too thick when they get to be a certain length.

  2. Jonathan

    I’d like to publicly put it on the record that I do enjoy Graham’s audio tangents 😀
    The wine/beer thing is interesting – there are indeed two words translated as wine, one a sort of weak (3%) brew and the other (“strong drink”) in some translations) closer to modern wine.

  3. Secret Squirrel

    Hi. Just a comment about MEPIS. I actually run it on an old laptop, which hasn’t responded well to Ubuntu Mate or Mint Cinnamon edition. The latest version is based on Debian Jessie and is pretty solid. The fan isn’t working overtime, unlike with Ubuntu Mate, and the PC is far more responsive than it ever was with Mint. So it’s not a dead project, just one that doesn’t see much love anymore, perhaps as hardware has become so much more powerful and sophisticated since MEPIS’ heyday.

  4. Stantontas

    I was a huge fan of Mepis and think it was underrated. When I was getting into Linux, it was the only distro I tested that correctly set my laptop’s screen size. Over the 6+ years I used it, it was stable and had a friendly community. Graham will be pleased to know that it got me hooked on KDE even through the 3.5 > 4 transition.
    My only complaint would be that development was too slow and it eventually just petered out. It’s a case study in why distros need more than one “benevolent dictator”.
    But that friendly community birthed ANTIX, a great lightweight / old machine distro which I heartily recommend (and apparently also MX, which I haven’t tried.)

  5. Huw

    MEPIS was my introduction to Linux. The main reason was that of the very small number of live CDs available at the time, MEPIS was the only one that came with a rather thorough handbook which was written with a newcomer to Linux in mind. It did a lot to ease my fears over partitioning my hard drive; something I’d never dreamed of doing before!

    So I will always have a soft spot for MEPIS. However I dimly recall a bit of a division in the community at one point; details are vague now but Warren had asked the community something important about the future of MEPIS and, whatever it was we chose, he basically went the other way anyway. I wish I could remember what that decision was, but I remember being quite annoyed at the time and that was probably the reason I finally started looking around for another distro.