6.04 release?

Warren indicated Feb 10th, but it may take a bit longer.

I normally do not recommend betas, but beta4 is very good. You can install it, and keep it up to date from the repos. In the end you will therefore get final.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

Yep, I've got it installed on one of my test boxes. If you ask me Mepis is the best Linux OS today, and I try almost every new distro that comes out on Distrowatch. Live cds make it easy to try them, but I'm sticking with Mepis, I'm very impressed with it. I'm going to wait for the final to install it on my home, and office machine. Right now I'm running 6.0 final, and it runs great! So I'm in no hurry.

Once 6.04 is released, you can upgrade from the repos.... And yes, MEPIS is very good. I've tried to find out what the hype about some other distros is all about, but they cannot hold a candle to MEPIS.....

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

I've been running beta 2-4 on my desktop from the beginning, and did a laptop install a week ago. Absolutely flawless install, with out-of-the-box wireless connectivity (realtek rtl8189).

Frankly, MEPIS had fallen out of favor with me some time back, with nVidia and/or kernel updates fatally trashing my desktops's Twin View configuration. When the new version was released for testing, I gave it a shot and am glad I did.

SimplyMEPIS_32 v6.0-4 has found a permanent home on this laptop; PCLinuxOS is gonna get a shot on the desktop when it goes final. Warren and Texstar have shown that the "little guys" can still lead the way.

Without taking anything from their merit, little guys stand on the shoulders of giants. That's the open source way...
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Two days ago I played with PCLinuxOS_2007 beta because someone wrote that it had Beryl on the default install. That it did. The PCLinuxOS_2007 livecd found my ATI 9700 chip and set it up with Beryl perfectly. Berly seems very nice, but while, for example, dragging the title bar of Konqueror around produced the famous Jello wiggle, dragging the bottom or sides of Konqueror produced annoying pauses while Konqueror tried to resize itself. Worse yet, PCLinuxOS_2007 seems to have about every kind of device module preinstalled. In PCLinuxOS-"bigdaddy' I was able to quickly setup my Broadcom 4306 wireless chip, but in the 2007 version bcm43xx does not connect. I cannot rmmod it because "ieee80211' requires it and I cannot remove that mod because bcm43xx requires it. Catch-22.

SimplyMEPIS 6.04-b4's LiveCD runs on this Gateway m675prr laptop perfectly. It detected my ATI9700 chip and setup accelerated video. It also detected my sound, USB, DVD/CD and every other device on this laptop and configured them properly. All I had to do was give MEPIS Netware Assistant my essid and password and my Broadcom 4306 wireless connected. This release is sizing up to be the best MEPIS release ever. When it goes Gold I shall do two things:
1) Overwrite MEPIS-6.0 on this laptop
2) Renew by subscription

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I started to see on forums this idea expressed over and over on forums: "This release is sizing up to be the best MEPIS release ever." I also can't wait for it to be released.

There are couple of new features I'm sure people didn't pay much attention, but I'm excited about them:
- I'm already excited by the fact that I will be able to go to my Mac user friends and be able to show them how MEPIS works... on their computer. (I might even get a Mac Mini if it turns that MEPIS works fine on it, I can even imagine setting it up to use it as a media center and small server)
- I set up MEPIS on a USB key and now I can reinstall in less then 3 minutes on my system (and I guess 30% of time is taken by me selecting the username and password). I'm not even sure if there's other serious Operating System in the world that provides a full system (KDE and all stuff) in less then 3 minutes, that's pretty nice I would say....
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