MEPIS 3.3.1

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http://www.mepis.org/node/6500

Morgantown, WV, May 12, 2005: MEPIS has begun shipping the SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1 bootable CD. SimplyMEPIS offers a Linux that is easy to install and use. It should appeal to the beginner and expert alike.

This is a minor update from SimplyMEPIS 3.3. SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1 is available from the MEPIS subscription site and the usual mirror sites. Current users will be able to update from SimplyMEPIS 3.3 to 3.3.1 with apt-get/Synaptic. SimplyMEPIS is, and will continue to be, available for free download from public mirrors.

Changes include an update of packages to synchronize with the Debian pool as of April 20, 2005. Alsa mixer preconfiguration is fully automated. Isa sound card support is enhanced. Serial_cs and rt2500 drivers are available. The ra0 wireless port is supported in the OS Center.

Acrobat Reader has been updated to 7.0 and the mimetypes configuration has been modified to use Acrobat automatically. The MEPIS OS Center now includes a one-click selection of the Synaptic touchpad driver. RealPlayer has been updated. The preconfig for the firewall has been corrected to block access to the local apache web server.

The firewire and scsi hotplug agents and the USB pluggable devices list were improved for better support of USB and Firewire pluggable devices. Support for the davfs2 filesystem is available on demand. Cpufreq modules are autoloaded during boot.

Because of our commitment to remain as Debian compatible as possible, we will switch to X.org, OpenOffice 2.0, and KDE 3.4, only when Debian releases those packages.

As always we are grateful to the Debian Project, KDE.org, and our community members who help us improve MEPIS.

SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1 is the version of SimplyMEPIS that is distributed by TaFusion in the retail product bundles they call SimplyMEPIS XI.

For more information, visit the MEPIS sites.

MEPIS bus site: http://www.mepis.com
MEPIS mirrors: http://www.mepis.org/node/1462
MEPIS store: http://store.mepis.com
MEPIS forum: http://forum.mepis.org
Community forum: http://www.mepislovers.com