user: demo
password: demo
user: root
password: root
Thanks.
One may wonder why they could not have supplied that information in the
same text box.
I have now spent two hours trying it out as a live-CD.
I logged in as root.
I set the keyboard to swedish.
An hour later I found out how to change all font sizes to something
readable.
Two hours later I had tried out surfing the web with it.
Most of the time I was searching for how to save my settings to my hard
disk, so I could use it as live-CD more times, without having to go
through all the settings again that made it usable for me.
But I couldn't find a way to save my settings.
Tried running as demo for a while trying still to find a way to save my
settings.
Finally I logged out and restarted the computer, hoping that mepis
would ask me if I wanted to save my settings to a hard disk file, as
knoppix does, but no luck, it just restarted the computer. I quickly
removed the CD so I got back into windows.
Summary of impressions:
I was more impressed by the earlier live-CD from mepis, it was quicker,
and it was the first live cd I hade ever seen work which could use my
internet connection.
This version, 6, probably had more programs and features but it was not
easy to find my way around it. It does not have an overall structure
which is sensible, I think.
I have never seen a linux with an overall design strategy.
Windows that open are small so you have to make them bigger to make
them useful.
I still have to recommend it, because mepis really works, but it still
has a lot of weaknesses. Even if you are young you probably need
reading glasses to be able to read the small fonts before you find the
setting that changes font sizes.
I think they should have gathered a bunch of normal people and tested
it on before releasing it.
Like people who do not automatically realize that the username and
password must both be root, etc.. People own normal size screens, mine
is a 19 inch and I would have needed a projector screen 3 by 4 meters
or something like that for so small fonts and details.
Theme designers who have a somewhat normal color sense would be needed
both in the linux and windows world.
Ergonomics is an unknown word, obviously.
It means the art of adjusting interfaces to human beings, whether it is
park benches, kitchen chairs, program interfaces, help files, color
themes, fonts, user interfaces of operating systems, etc..
