When
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Can anybody tell me when the 3.4 distro will be out? I am trying to be cool but I am wondering when it will be. Last I heard it was soon but that was 2 weeks ago.
Waiting..... Peter
When... what?...Stay Cool...It will arrive...
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When... what?...Stay Cool...It will arrive...
Have you tried an update or upgrade lately????
There are big changes a-foot.
Stay cool & cool my man.
This is not a MEPIS thing only with Debian.
What you have is stable, please give thanks for that. [did you have to patch a WMF problem on the other boxes over Xmas]
It is coming... enjoy what time you can before it does 
NH
WMF
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Sorry what does WMF mean? I am trying to be cool but sometimes the truth is I am not. I would really like to get on with it cause it should be a great platform for the future I hope.
Peter
MustBeFinal
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I want it final.Maybe thats my problem. I can not download as it takes to long with my line and so I must do it via cd and so must wait for the final. I just don't have the time to attend to all that stuff. I want to build a stable system but I can not attend to all the problems and time needed to deal with the changes that are nesscary to deal with the ever changeing upgrades. I want to use my time for building my projects!
I feel that this next final will be there and will deliver the goods. would like to know about when though.
Peter
MoreFears
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"One problem area that people fall into is the latest and greatest
upgrade cycle. The stability of a system goes down if
you keep upgrading your kernel, libraries, and applications
to the latest and greatest revision. There???s really no reason
to fix something that isn???t broken. In many environments,
constantly upgrading libraries will cause components to fail.
It will also cause custom code written by programmers in
your company to act different. The lack of backwards compatibility
in some packages just doesn???t work in a production
environment. Sure, these problems exist in the commercial
realm as well (and the hiccups are even worse) but
those systems aren???t upgraded as often. A patch upgrade
every 6 months or a year (with minor security updates in between)
aren???t going to create as big a problem as a weekly
kernel upgrade just for the sake of a kernel upgrade. It might
be boring to sit around and wait while your office servers
fall a few revisions back from your desktop at home, but it???s
worth it."
Quote by Jackiewicz, Tom from the nov issue Free Software Mag.
I am sorry I can not upgrade more as I know the problems I run into help guide the project to a better end result. But I just can not! the problems I am haveing must be centered on the software apps and not on the platform. Thats because the projects I have are centered around my life and really need to be fixed, Thats where the real point of the computer is. I think the next final realese will be the one to help me with that stability I need to make the rest of my very unstable projects progress to useability.
do I make sense?
Peter
Don't Do Like Kanotix
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Kanotix was in the same situation and they jumped the gun and released before the KDE upgrades. Now a fresh 10 minute install of 2-week old Kanotix may take an hour or more of upgrading, answering several config questions and hoping it all works in the end. I did it last night and it works fine, but it would be nicer if the newer KDE packages were on the iso. I am sure that there is a new Kanotix around the corner.
Since Mepis appeals to a lot of new users, it would not be very fair to these users to install Mepis only to learn that a new version comes out 2 weeks later.
Makes ya curious as to what
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Makes ya curious as to what the delay is though.
Last we heard, Warren was trying to resolve the printing issues with older HP printers.
He recieved an older printer and said that the issues were resolved.
Maybe he's going to include KDE 3.5.
I can wait for the reslease but I'm also curious as to what the delay is.
Is there a problem he ran in to? Or are features being added?
Curous minds what to know.
I think we can consider RC
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I think we can consider RC just as good as released versions, I'm using it without problems since it has been out. Unless you intend to use Mepis to run a nuclear plant, for desktop use 3.4-2.RC1 is good enough.
I used to discourage people to use "testing" and "RC", but I think my concerned were unwarranted, for more than one year I tried all testing and released images -- they behaved the same for me -- no problems.
Yep, I do hope the "official" 3.4 will be released soon, I guess Warren is working some kinks, but that might not affect your hardware or configuration anyway....
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I think it might be due to
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I think it might be due to some packages that we expect in Mepis breaking easily even in testing ie Xine/kaffeine, amarok, k3b.
The new kanotix, for example doesn't come with Xine, but vlc. Kanotix is a great distro as was mentioned above, but one that lives on the edge so to speak and needs more experience than Mepis does.
It is certainly not going to be easy trying to produce a stable/testing/unstable distro with the new features and udev hardware detection, but I'm sure Mepis will come up smelling of roses.
anticapitalista
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
When
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I have been using Mepis for over 2 years and it has always been a stable operating system. The latest version that is out has also been a very stable operating system for me too. The only problem that I have had and still have is that my HP Printer will not work. I have been hoping that since they have found a solution for HP Printer that they would at least put out a patch or the solution for the people who HP Printers does not work. Like I said, every thing else works great.
when?
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Unless you intend to use Mepis to run a nuclear plant, for desktop use 3.4-2.RC1 is good enough.
We tried that last week. Knocked the lights right out. Missed the second-half of the big game. Such is life...
Lights out
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I guess because Mepis 3.4-2 rc1 can not run nuclear plants your lights went out. That makes sense.
We have a nuclear plant here so maybe I better not try it?
I hear you and it sounds right but I figured that since the final will be out soon I should wait. I wonder what soon means.
I have to get a disc from mepis so I figured that waiting was the right thing to do as downloading is out for me. Maybe I can find a fast connection and do it that way. It takes over 12 hours to download just about anything here.
thanks qtech. peter
"I wonder what soon
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"I wonder what soon means."
I wonder too. I guess it has a relativistic meaning in computing world.
Anyway, the final was due sometime at the end of the last year, some bugs were fixed and worked on so it takes a little bit longer, but I don't think it will be too long.
I bet anyone $20 that's going to be released sooner or later.
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Re: "I wonder what soon
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I bet anyone $20 that's going to be released sooner or later.
...or "When it's ready!" LOLOL 
When??
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Very good question! I too have been watching both here and DistroWatch.com for any indication of the release of the new 3.4.2 version. Is it going to be a rc2 version or final??