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The Simply MEPIS 3.4-3 RC2
has released
The latest SimplyMEPIS
release candidate, version 3.4-3 rc2 addresses some problems identified and
reported by the community. All users were added to the scanner group, this is a
change mandated by the Debian udev configuration. Usbmount was removed because
all of its functionality seems to be handled elsewhere in udev. As far as we can
tell, it's never called. Meauto was tweaked to enable serial ports, if serial is
not configured automatically by the system. This should work only for standard
serial ports and internal modems that have a UART interface.
MEPIS LLC was founded in 2003 by computer
industry veteran Warren Woodford, to meet his personal desire for a version of
Linux that was easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. Today MEPIS offers
innovative Linux solutions for home users, businesses, hardware vendors, and
vertical market solution providers. MEPIS was a founding member of the DCC
Alliance where it contributed the Intel and LSB compatible kernels offered with
DCC 3.0.
The latest SimplyMEPIS release candidate,
version 3.4-3 rc2 addresses some problems identified and reported by the
community. Look for it in the testing subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's
Site and public mirrors. For up to 7 days.
All users were added to the scanner group, this is a
change mandated by the Debian udev configuration. Usbmount was removed because
all of it's functionality seems to be handled elsewhere in udev. As far as we
can tell, it's never called. Meauto was tweaked to
enable serial ports, if serial is not configured automatically by the system.
This should work only for standard serial ports and internal modems that have a
UART interface. The OSCenter installer was modified
to place a time delay in front of calls to mkfs.ext2. This is required because
under certain conditions udev rebuilds the dev entries for hard drives and
mkfs.ext2 tests too soon for the dev entry. This is not a problem with
mkfs.reiserfs. This fixes a problem where SimplyMEPIS could not be installed on
some ext2/3 hard drive partitions. The fglrx driver
for ATI was updated to the latest version patched by Norbert Tretkowski to fix a
conflict between the driver and the 2.6.15 kernel. The conflict caused a hang
when logging out. Thanks Norbert. The splashy
config was tweaked to present a more aesthetic progress bar.
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