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Mepis Update

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Okay as anyone who loves Mepis knows there is a huge amount of wants and desires and lets not forget the rumors that abound from the Forums to websites. They all seem to have most of the same things mentioned. KDE4 is the biggest thing, while it is available from other sources it has not [...]

Simply Mepis 8 Released

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Well after a wait the day has arrived and was it worth it over all the 64 bit version is faster than almost any distro I have tried and everything works right out of the box. What more can you ask for folks? If you have been wanting to give linux a shot now is [...]

SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC3: Entering the “Waiting for Lenny” Phase

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Morgantown, WV, Feb 9, 2009 — MEPIS has distributed ISO files for RC3 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0. The files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_64.iso.
For RC3, the kernel has been updated to upstream version, 2.6.27.15. Qemu 0.9.1+svn, libvirt 0.6., virt-manager 0.6.1, and virtinst 0.400.1 are available from the MEPIS pool to better [...]

SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC2: On the Home Stretch

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Morgantown, WV, Jan 26, 2009 — Warren has uploaded ISO files for RC2 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 to the MEPIS pools. The files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.95-rc2_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.95-rc2_64.iso.
For RC2, the kernel has been updated to upstream version, 2.6.27.12. Kvm 83 is available from the MEPIS pool to better match the virtualization [...]

Interview with Warren Woodford - Founder of Mepis

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Okay here is your chance to check out the man behind Mepis my favorite distro and one that I try and promote as much as possible. Learn why he started Mepis and some of his belief’s for a distro. A very good read for all as it gives a lot of insight into a developer [...]

SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Moves Closer to Final Release with Beta 6

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Morgantown, WV, Dec 8, 2008 — ISO files of the sixth and last anticipated beta of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 are available for 32 and 64 bit processors as SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.93-beta6_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.93-beta6_64.iso.
In beta 6, the kernel has been updated to upstream version 2.6.27.7 and the extra drivers have been rebuilt for the new kernel. This kernel release [...]

SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven’t tried

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Linux.com :: SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven’t tried
SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven’t triedBy Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on November 21, 2008 (6:00:00 PM)
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Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS … not so [...]

MEPIS jumps on 2.6.27

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

 
Only ten days after the release of Linux 2.6.27, the SimplyMEPIS project has decided to work the new kernel into its next release. The project today used the kernel in both 32- and 64-bit versions of the third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8.
And this after all the “experts” said that Mepis was dead. Like [...]

Simply Mepis 8 is Looking Good

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

 
As some of you know, Linux is what my computers run on, and Simply Mepis is the particular distribution. I have been using Simply Mepis for a number of years, and would not go backwards into a Windows environment for anything. There is no need to, really, as all my computing needs are met in [...]

MEPIS Linux 8.0 nears release

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

 
A new version of MEPIS Linux, one of my favorite KDE-based distributions, is nearing final release. Roughly a year after the arrival of version 7.0, distribution founder and maintainer Warren Woodford has released MEPIS 8.0 beta 2, based on a Debian Lenny core.
All I can say is I agree with this review. I also [...]

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