The MEPIS kernel has been updated to include better versions of the Intel wireless drivers. Old fuse and rt61 drivers have been disabled in the main kernel package.

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In response to user requests, Opera 9.1 has been packaged for SimplyMEPIS-32 and SimplyMEPIS-64 and uploaded into the MEPIS pools.

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There is a new project and repository for the Penguin Liberation Front packages. These packages may be restricted in your jurisdiction. The URI for the pool is:

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Warren has uploaded some new packages to the MEPIS Development Pool. REMEMBER: This pool is for experienced testers ONLY! If you are not a tester, you should not use the development pool (see Warren's post below regarding the dev pool).

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We have a pool of new software packages that need to be tested before they are put in the regualr pool. You should not use this development pool unless you want ot be a MEPIS tester. The pool will be volatile and your system may break.

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Hi all,

To give you more options, I've added a new pool that can be used in addition to the regular pool.

The old 6.0 pool is now at uri:

http://apt.mepis.org/simply32-6.0/ mepis main

To maintain backward compatiblity it can still be reached via:

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UPDATE: In SU1, this package has been replaced by a newer Firefox 2.0 package.

I have uploaded Firefox 2.0 into the MEPIS pool along with a modified
mepis-auto that goes with it. This is just a repackaging of the official Firefox release. It is

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The latest upgrade of Amarok is now available for download in the MEPIS pool. The visualization plugins will not upgrade automatically, so if you would like visualizations for Amarok, you need to manually select the package libvisual-0.4-plugins.

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The Xara Xtreme for Linux 0.7 upgrade is now available in the MEPIS pools for SimplyMEPIS 6.0 users.

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We are getting some reports that upgrading xserver-xorg-core to version 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3 is causing some systems to fail after upgrading.

Warren has taken the previous xorg-core package and placed it in the MEPIS repository. Doing this should override the newer, broken xorg-core package and prevent it from installing. If your installation is broken, you can revert to the older package by typing 'apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core/mepis' at a root commandline.

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