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MEPIS | Now Shipping Version 7.0

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:18:23 -0700

A New Update of antiX 7.0

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:11:17 -0700

Morgantown, WV, US and Thessaloniki, Greece, May 14, 2008 -- MEPIS has announced the release of antiX 7.2, "Vetëvendosje."

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Distribution Release: MEPIS antiX 7.2

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:32 -0700

MEPIS has announced the release of MEPIS antiX 7.2, a lightweight, community variant of MEPIS Linux designed for older computers: "MEPIS has announced the release of antiX 7.2, 'Vetëvendosje.' Built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, along with selected additions from....

Kernel Update Contains Security Patches

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:41:51 -0800

MEPIS has released a kernel update for SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The new kernels, version 2.6.22-18mepis1, contain all recent security patches from the kernel.org development team.

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Empowering the Linux Community

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:24:51 -0800

From a Linux Developer point of view, when users are no longer developing with you...you’ve lost. Empowerment is key to a successful community in Linux. The day the community is no longer empowered to improve is the day the distribution dies. What kills empowerment? Helplessness. Despair. Inability.

As an example, a user might not like it if you tell them their bug will not be fixed for the next release. This is normal practice in many major distributions. But if you tell a user that their bug won’t be fixed through 4 releases, you may have a problem. Unfortunately, this also is becoming a normal practice for some major distributions.

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Compiz Packages Updated

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:55:48 -0800

The MEPIS 7.0 pool now contains updates including compiz 0.6.3-1, compizconfig-settings-manager 0.6.0-2, and python-compizconfig 0.6.0-1.

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Distribution Release: MEPIS antiX 7.01

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:40:17 -0800

MEPIS antiX 7.01, a lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0, was released as an update to antiX 7.0: "antiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32-bit PC hardware and is designed to work on computers with as....

Eclipse Added to MEPIS Pool

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:52:14 -0800

Eclipse 3.2.2-4 has been recompiled for MEPIS and added to the MEPIS 7.0 pool. As usual, Debian Etch users are welcome to install this and other packages from the MEPIS 7.0 pool.

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Anti Releases an Update to antiX 7.0

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:50:09 -0800

Morgantown, WV, US and Thessaloniki, Greece, Dec 31, 2007 -- MEPIS has announced the release of antiX-M7.01 "Lysistrata" , a lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0.

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Distribution Release: SimplyMEPIS 7.0

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:33:44 -0800

Warren Woodford has announced the long-awaited final release of SimplyMEPIS 7.0: "MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 7.0. Some of the important packages included with the 7.0 release are: an updated and security-patched 2.6.22.14 kernel, X.Org 7.1, KDE 3.5.8, OpenOffice.org 2.3.0, Firefox 2.0.0.11, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Digikam 0.9.2, Sun Java 6,....

A Holiday Present for Everybody: MEPIS 7.0 is Released

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:49:13 -0800

Morgantown, WV, Dec 22, 2007 -- MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos for the 32 and 64 versions are in the released directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and public mirrors.

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Happy Holidays from Warren

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:48:03 -0800

Hi everybody,

I hope you have a great holiday season. Thanks for all of your help this past
year. Please pass this message on to others in the community.

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A first look at MEPIS's new Ubuntu-based Linux

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:55:44 -0800

interesting

Update to MEPIS 7.0 Look

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:47:28 -0800

Thanks to some very inspired and dedicated work by the MEPIS community, the look of MEPIS 7.0 has been updated. This is a whole new coordinated look for grub, splashy, and the desktop.

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MEPIS Package Updates: mepis-manual and compiz

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:03:13 -0800

The mepis-manual has been updated in the MEPIS 7.0 pool to, what is believed to be, the final version for the 7.0 release. Many thanks to the MEPIS community members who worked on the manual!

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MEPIS 7.0 Package Updates: firefox, kdelibs4, flash, digikam, kmplayer, xine-lib

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:03:13 -0800

In the past few days the following preinstalled packages have been updated for MEPIS 7.0.

firefox 2.0.0.11-1 for the latest Mozilla project improvements

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MEPIS 7.0 rc2: More Final Touches

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:28:46 -0800

Morgantown, WV, Dec 5, 2007 -- Warren has released rc2 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0.

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Development Release: SimplyMEPIS 7.0 RC2

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:08:04 -0800

Warren Woodford has announced the second a final release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 7.0: "The 7.0 rc2 master image contains package updates from Debian as well as a bug fix and security update of the kernel to version 2.6.22.14. The mepis-config is updated to include a fix for the....

Beryl - MEPIS Documentation Wiki

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:35:51 -0800

Updates to dia and mepis-config

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:57:29 -0800

Mepis-config has been updated to enable "Create New" Popup Menu items for OpenOffice Calc, Draw, Impress, and Writer documents.

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Debian Beryl Repository

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:35:45 -0800

beryl for mepis and other debian

Laying to Rest the Mandriva/PCLOS Debate

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:05:21 -0800

The one thing about FOSS that I love is that you can take whatever you need from various sources and build what you opine is a better wheel. Take Ubuntu for instance...they took Debian and made it into something that many users are happy with.

Is this wrong? Not at all. Each day, many non-commercial distro makes wake up and check various distributions for updated security fixes. They pull source rpms, updated tar.gz’s, and debs into their distro, make minor adjustments, and drop it into their repository. Distros share with one another...they take and hopefully give back. If not monetarily, at least by the number of users that they have that may report bugs or provide fixes.

So what’s the beef that some Distrowatch Weekly commenter’s seem to have with PCLinuxOS? During the past 3 weeks of comments on the DW, some have been hounding PCLinuxOS with accusations saying that the developers hide things from their community and that PCLinuxOS eradicates changelogs and/or lights small dogs on fire while chopping kittens to bits in blenders, etc.

Myth #1: PCLinuxOS Hides the Fact it is Mandriva based (False)

PCLinuxOS.com has always had an “About” link on every single webpage it has ever had. Let’s look at what information has been conveyed there:

"PCLinuxOS was originally based on another distribution under the name of Mandriva
and shares many features of Mandriva such as the Control Center and the
Draklive Installer. Texstar and team would like to thank the
developers, contributors and others associated with Mandriva who may
have indirectly contributed to the PCLinuxOS distribution."

Let’s look at some other distro front pages to see how they compare. Sabayon Linux has their footer at the bottom with Gentoo in it...but no mention on the front page as to what they’re based on. No real ’about’ link there either. Move on to Ubuntu. No mention of Debian on the front page. You have to visit the Community >> The Ubuntu Story link in order to find that it is based on Debian. Once again, no ‘about’ link on the front page.

Let’s take a look at the PCLinuxOS Page on Distrowatch shall we? This has been utterly unchanged in 4 years:

"PCLinuxOS is an English only live CD initially based on Mandrake Linux
that runs entirely from a bootable CD. Data on the CD is uncompressed
on the fly, allowing up to 2GB of programs on one CD including a
complete X server, KDE desktop, OpenOffice.org and many more
applications all ready to use. In addition to the live CD, you can also
install PCLinuxOS to your hard drive with an easy-to-use
livecd-installer. Additional applications can be added or removed from
your hard drive using a friendly apt-get front end via Synaptic."

If that paragraph is an attempt to hide things, I’m Miles Davis.

Considering these two points, I’d say PCLinuxOS hasn’t been ‘hiding’ the fact that it is Mandriva based. I’d say they’re doing quite well with where they have this information. I welcome any comments with information otherwise. If you have specific examples, please make sure they’re from a developer and not a general user...because if general users are where we’re getting our information from, every distro is in trouble.

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MEPIS 7.0 RC1: Final Cleanup Begins

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:19:13 -0800

Morgantown, WV, Nov 19, 2007 -- MEPIS has announced RC1 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0.

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Updates to Firefox and OpenOffice

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:38:27 -0800

In the MEPIS 7.0 software package pool, OpenOffice 2.3.0 has been updated to include recent bug fixes and Firefox has been updated to version 2.0.0.8.

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Kernel updated to 2.6.22.12

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:38:26 -0800

The 7.0 kernel has been updated to version 2.6.22.12. The kernel change logs may be viewed at kernel.org

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Update to Thunderbird

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:38:26 -0800

In the 7.0 pool, Thunderbird has has been updated to version 2.0.0.6.

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UnSolved - Compiling NDIS Wrapper under Mepis-Antix 6.5.27-destop - MEPISlovers Forums

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:24:07 -0700

MEPIS 7.0 Beta6: The Final Round of Updates

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:52:09 -0700

Morgantown, WV, Nov 1, 2007 -- After a one month hiatus, Warren Woodford has returned with a 6th Beta of SimplyMEPIS 7.0.

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MEPIS | discover the possibilities...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:59:46 -0700

Distribution Release: MEPIS antiX 7.0

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:57:01 -0700

MEPIS antiX 7.0, a light-weight edition of MEPIS Linux, has been released: "MEPIS has announced the 'Lysistrata' release of antiX, a light-weight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. This version of AntiX is built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, but mostly it....