I've been playing with these and have had problems with updating and/or upgrading. I've used apt, kpackage, synaptic. Is there really that much tuning necessary?
Using, mepis-2004.05.b00.cd1
Have available, knoppix-V3.3-2004-02-16
also morphix combined-KDE-0.4-1
the generic mepis system i'm...