I was returning to my Simply Mepis Linux box after my Mac Mini hard drive crashed without warning. I had tried Klik with Suse 10 before and was not able to get any of the applications I tried to work. This was a number of months ago - maybe 4. Now I tried Klik with Simply Mepis 3.4-3 final and was pleasantly surprised that all the applications that I needed minus the ones I got through Synaptic worked great. I got Adobe Reader, Inkscape-latest, Koffice 1.5 beta, Opera 8.5, and SeaMonkey installed and they work fine, although the Flash plugin which works in the Firefox that came with Simply Mepis doesn't work in the Opera or SeaMonkey Klik files, I am very impressed at how much this project has come along. Once KDE 4 and whatever version Gnome comes out with in their corresponding version and once Klik is not labelled as experimental, then I will put my mom on Linux. Right now she is on a Mac, but she doesn't want to spend money to keep the software up to date and she trusts my judgement. What is holding me back from switching entirely to Linux is waiting for the next version of Inkscape and Scribus and Xara LX 1.0.

I have a question, though. I want to reinstall Simply Mepis when I sign up for the subscription at the beginning of next month and then install just from the CDs for extra applications plus the Klik packages that I have installed, because I don't want anything installed from Debian repositories on the web as I heard Debian has been unstable for a long time. The question is - how do I back up and then restore the CMG files. Do I put them in a tar.gz file and then burn them to CD-ROM and then just copy them back over and after I reinstall Simply Mepis and then reinstall klik? Would that work, or do I need to then reinstall from the web?