I really like Mepis, especially for a newbie, but my main OS has become Libranet 2.8.1. With Mepis I always had to adjust my system clock (running SUPER slow compared to my hardware clock). While that was the only issue I had, it was a pain in the neck and there was no apparent fix that I could find anywhere. I think this is only a problem on laptops, as I never heard this complaint from a desktop user. Anyway, I tried Libranet after reading several reviews and comments on various forums.
I have been highly impressed with Libranet's stability and ease of use. It may not be bleeding edge, as most of the parts are pretty dated (e.g.-KDE 3.1.5 and mozilla 1.5), but they work. Of course being Debian based you can always upgrade using apt and the Debian repositories. Very nice.

Sorry to seem so critical, but I don't know why that you included TurboLinux, when http://distrowatch.com/ lists Gentoo, Yoper, DSL & others as more popular. You don't even have a "other" selection in your poll.

Xplorational I would go for PHLAK

That's most likely just a matter of whether the
distro defaults to use APM or ACPI for the power-
management. Certainly not an actual distro-shortcoming,
just a matter of configuration. Pitty I didn't see your
original question because I had the problem with
my thinkpad as well (clock 5 min slow in just a few
hours) which was fixed by switching from apm to
ACPI. I got the actual solution from a kernel-development
mailing list :)

That all said: you've given up way too fast ;}



Cheers,
Tink

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My system clock was approximately 17 minutes slow within an hour. My notebook doesn't support APM, only ACPI. I could have lived with it, but whenever I logged off it synced my hardware clock to the system clock thus putting my hardware clock in the rears as well. I used a script for adjtimex and ntp to get the clocks right initially when starting up, but I could only use it when connected to the internet (because of ntp) and it only lasted as long as the computer was on.
Maybe I did give up too soon, but it's a problem that shouldn't exist. No other distro has exhibited that behaviour. I wish someone could have given me a solution, but nobody seemed to have had the exact problem or seen it before. Someone on the Mepis site suggested the script, but that it was only a bandaid for a bigger problem. I even went to the developers' mailing list but got no solution there either (still waiting actually). I'm glad I moved to Libranet though. I still would not hesitate to recommend Mepis to anyone because my problem seemed to be isolated.

on more than one occasion.. in this post alone... people have asked me to edit the poll... and now i am asking if a Mod can edit it for me... TomByrer has a good plan of adding a "other" section... so if a Mod gets this.. could you please take out the following:

TurboLinux
Knoppix
FreeBSD
RedHat

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To the posts above

i have looked a little further into Mepis and it seems like a solid build... for what it has to offer i mean.. as far as what i want... which is good.... well really good... uhmmm.. and as far as the clock issue goes.. i am not really sure i even looked it up as well and couldn't find much... have you tried contacting an install fest? [i mention this... only because i recently watch RevolutionOS, which is BTW an excellent film that proves, PROVES i say, that Linux is better than the monopoly that Micro$oft has in place] i am not sure if install fests still occur. so you may want to do some more research or see if you can find one... good luck..

and on a seperate note all together.. wow...! 5 pages..! FIVE! that's exciting. for me atleast... to know that something could attract so much.. and when i thought it was over it gained some more input. this is why the Linux Community is so much more tolerable and accepting of newbies.. i still am a newbie by far.. still learning each day goes by. but i mean arent we all..?