SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3rc2 - Getting Closer
Morgantown, WV, January 17, 2006: The latest SimplyMEPIS release candidate, version 3.4-3 rc2 addresses some problems identified and reported by the community. Look for it in the testing subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and public mirrors. For up to 7 days, please send feedback to dev@mepis.org
All users were added to the scanner group, this is a change mandated by the Debian udev configuration. Usbmount was removed because all of it's functionality seems to be handled elsewhere in udev. As far as we can tell, it's never called.
Meauto was tweaked to enable serial ports, if serial is not configured automatically by the system. This should work only for standard serial ports and internal modems that have a UART interface.
The OSCenter installer was modified to place a time delay in front of calls to mkfs.ext2. This is required because under certain conditions udev rebuilds the dev entries for hard drives and mkfs.ext2 tests too soon for the dev entry. This is not a problem with mkfs.reiserfs. This fixes a problem where SimplyMEPIS could not be installed on some ext2/3 hard drive partitions.
The fglrx driver for ATI was updated to the latest version patched by Norbert Tretkowski to fix a conflict between the driver and the 2.6.15 kernel. The conflict caused a hang when logging out. Thanks Norbert!
The splashy config was tweaked to present a more aesthetic progress bar.
For more information about MEPIS and SimplyMEPIS, please contact: Erin Melbert or Jenny Baker news@mepis.com
About MEPIS
MEPIS LLC was founded in 2003 by computer industry veteran Warren Woodford, to meet his personal desire for a version of Linux that was easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. Today MEPIS offers innovative Linux solutions for home users, businesses, hardware vendors, and vertical market solution providers. MEPIS was a founding member of the DCC Alliance where it contributed the Intel and LSB compatible kernels offered with DCC 3.0.
About SimplyMEPIS
SimplyMEPIS is available as a free download from public Linux mirrors. MEPIS subscribers also have access, sometimes early access, to MEPIS ISOs at the MEPIS subscribers ftp site. For a subscription or other products available directly from MEPIS, visit store.mepis.com. Boxed MEPIS products are produced for retail stores by TAFusion, see www.tafusion.com. MEPIS does NOT sell at Ebay!
