Morgantown, WV, Aug 26, 2008 — Warren announces the first MEPIS Beta, version 7.9.70. The MEPIS beta offers up to date user applications delivered on top of the new Debian (Lenny) core.

Some of the important packages included with the beta are: 2.6.26.2 kernel, Xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 3.0beta2, Firefox 3.0.1, Sun Java 6.0, Amarok 1.4.10, mplayer 1.0.rc2, libglib2.0 2.16.4, libgtk2.0 2.12.11, and QT 4.4.0.

ISO images are in the ‘testing’ subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber’s Site and at the MEPIS public mirrors. To support the ongoing development of MEPIS, please go to the MEPIS store and become a MEPIS subscriber.