Why did I install MepisLite 3.3.2-1 RC1?

After Antix M7 refused to even boot on my Maxspeed Maxterm thin client (VIA C3 Samuel processor) -- which has successfuly run the first version of Mepis-based AntiX, as well as SimplyMepis 6, I went back to a Linux distro I remember fondly -- and which died well before its time.

I speak of MepisLite. It was Warren Woodford's idea of a lighter-than-SimplyMepis distro -- and a good idea it was. I believe Woodford sold the OS to Tafusion/Pioneer Linux. And while I did run SimplyMepis on this box, it was so, so slow that I couldn't stay with it for more than a couple of days.

And now that I have a free drive -- OpenBSD is never going to work for me -- I figured I'd play around a bit.

So I started a MepisLite install. Going into Synaptic, it looks like MepisLite is based on Debian Sarge. I'm doing what kind of upgrade there is right now. If it doesn't totally break, I'll keep it around a while. Thus far, MepisLite isn't freakishly fast. but it does have one thing going for it that even my favorite KDE distro -- Slackware -- doesn't possess: Kwrite with "typographical" quotes that work. In Slack, Kwrite's initial quote marks face the wrong way. In many other distros they don't work at all.

I should probably just get/stick with Debian Etch (and try it with KDE) and stop my bitching.