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Linux Distribution: SimplyMEPIS
Url: http://www.mepis.org/
MEPIS has announced the alpha1 release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. Alpha1 builds on the 6.0-experimental1 release. The KControl system configuration shell has been replaced with the SystemSettings shell from the Ubuntu Project. |
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| SimplyMEPIS 6.0 RC2 has been released now |
| MEPIS has uploaded RC2, a new release candidate of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. RC2 adds bug fixes, security updates, and screen resolution detection. By popular demand, the apt-notify applet was improved to support transparency in the panel. Firefox runs much faster out-of-the-box, due to some configuration improvements suggested by the community. RC2 incorporates more security updates from the Ubuntu Dapper pool, including a security patched version of the 2.6.15 kernel. By request, the rdesktop package was added so KDE's Remote Desktop Sharing could be used with Windows remote desktop servers. |
About the SimplyMEPIS
MEPIS has uploaded RC2, a new release candidate of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. RC2 adds bug fixes, security updates, and screen resolution detection.
The RC2 image is available for download and test in the mepis 'testing' subdirectory at public mirrors and the MEPIS Subscriber's Site.
Some More Detail
MEPIS has added monitor resolution autodetection to the CD. Warren Woodford of MEPIS said "This is a feature that has been requested for a long time. If the user does not specify their desired display resolution when booting the CD, we attempt to obtain it from the EDID data returned by the display card and then the optimum screen resolution is chosen automatically. Unfortunately there are a lot of monitor-display card combinations that do not return this data, so this feature will work only for some users."
A bug was found in RC1 that broke the "install on entire disk" option. This bug has been fixed for RC2. By popular demand, the apt-notify applet was improved to support transparency in the panel. Firefox runs much faster out-of-the-box, due to some configuration improvements suggested by the community. RC2 incorporates more security updates from the Ubuntu Dapper pool including a security patched version of the 2.6.15 kernel. By request, the rdesktop package was added so KDE's Remote Desktop Sharing could be used with Windows remote desktop servers.
For Download
North American Mirrors
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/
ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mepis/
http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis
http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/
ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/
European Mirrors
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/mepis/
http://www.debianworld.net/pub/mirror/mepis/
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