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Mepis 7.0 RC Review

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

With the new release of the Mepis 7.0 so close you can taste it, I had to write down a few of my thoughts concerning it. To say that Warren has done it again is a major understatement. Hardware recognized without a hitch and I have some stuff around there that can be a [...]

No worries: head of MEPIS Linux is fine

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Users of the popular Linux distribution MEPIS were getting worried about the distribution’s leader, who had been rather quiet lately.
Some Linux distributions — Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Novell, for example — have thousands of people working on them over the course of a month. Others, like MEPIS, have one developer, and users of the popular [...]

MEPIS 7.0 Beta3: Updates Galore

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Morgantown, WV, Aug 31, 2007 — MEPIS has released Beta3 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta2-beta3 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.
The kernel in Beta3 is version 2.6.22.5 which contains minor patches from the Kernel Development [...]

MEPIS 7.0 Beta2: More Updates and Fixes

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Morgantown, WV, Aug 24, 2007 — Warren Woodford of MEPIS has announced Beta2 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta1-beta2 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.
The kernel in Beta2 is version 2.6.22.4 which is a security update [...]

MEPIS 7.0 Beta1 is Available For Testing

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Morgantown, WV, Aug 17, 2007 — MEPIS has announced the upload of the first official Beta of the upcoming 7.0 release of SimplyMEPIS. Version 6.9.60beta1 for 32 and 64 bit processors is available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.
Since the prebeta of 2 weeks ago, there have [...]

MEPIS Releases KDE 4 Beta 1 Live DVDs

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Morgantown, WV, Aug 10, 2007 — Warren Woodford of MEPIS has built KDE4-Beta1 Live DVDs to verify the compatibility of KDE 4 with SimplyMEPIS 7.x. The 32 and 64 bit DVD isos are available from the testing directory of the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.
Warren said “I decided to share my KDE [...]

MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

 
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from Debian for the next version of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.0.

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MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
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antiX MEPIS 6.5 Screenshots

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

 
MEPIS has announced the ‘Spartacus’ release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS a community member, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32-bit PC…

(Here are a couple of screenshots for you folks,Baldy)
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antiX MEPIS 6.5 Screenshots
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AntiX "Spartacus", Lightweight Version of MEPIS is Released

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

 
MEPIS has announced the “Spartacus” release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentium II or equivalent AMD [...]

AntiX spin on Mepis in ‘pre-final’ stage, should be ‘final’ in early July

Friday, June 29th, 2007

 
AntiX, the Fluxbox-based, 128 MB RAM-friendly version of Mepis is now in its “pre-final” stage, with a final release from its maker anticapitalista expected in early July, according to the developer himself on the Mepis forum.
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AntiX spin on Mepis in ‘pre-final’ stage, should be ‘final’ in early July
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