"Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS ... not so many. That's a shame, because this relatively obscure Debian-based desktop distribution, is an outstanding desktop operating system. With SimplyMEPIS 8 at beta 5 and closing in on release, I tested the distribution and found it to be a keeper."

The full review is at http://www.linux.com/feature/153431

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Kernel 2.6.27.7 has been packaged for MEPIS 8.0. This release of the kernel contains all of the recent kernel.org fixes and security patches.

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Morgantown, WV, Nov 11, 2008 -- ISO files of the fifth beta of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 are available for 32 and 64 bit processors as SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.92-beta5_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.92-beta5_6

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Traditionally it was easy to mount a NTFS partition in MEPIS. Due to changes in ntfs-3g and other packages, in SimplyMEPIS 8 it has been necessary to mount the partition manually. Until now.

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Morgantown, WV, Oct 27, 2008 -- ISO files of the fourth beta of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 are available for 32 and 64 bit processors as SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.91-beta4_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.91-beta4_64.iso.

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Morgantown, WV, US and Thessaloniki, Greece, August 22, 2008 -- Anti and MEPIS announce the release of antiX MEPIS 7.5, "Toussaint Louverture"

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From DesktopLinux.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nicholas pits Microsoft Vista against MEPIS in this this multi-part series "to see how the pinnacle of commercial desktop operating systems stacks up against the free, community-developed Linux upstart."

Click here to read the first part of the story, and follow the links at the bottom of each article to read all 4 installments.

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Rick Lehrbaum tested and compared the performance of seven Linux distros on an old IBM ThinkPad. SimplyMEPIS edged out the competition, receiving a perfect 20 out of 20 score. Click here to read the whole story at desktoplinux.com.

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