MEPIS is a great little distro. It does not have the personnel to
keep up with the big distros, but Warren has a good thing, if he can
just find the time to keep it going. Pity because it has lots of
potential.

It is a great distro it seems to me. I would say it is my main distro.
Kubuntu comes in a close second. I have had pretty good results with
help from the forum. I did see something recently on Distrowatch, I
think, where the 8.0 release is being worked on. I will definitely
look at it when it is released.

I didn't have a good experience with Mandriva. I guess I didn't want
to spend the time to fix things that didn't work on my system. When
you have Mepis and Kubuntu that work, something else is going to have
to be pretty impressive and trouble free for a newbie to change over.