SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3rc3 - Much Better
Morgantown, WV, January 23, 2006: It is hoped that SimplyMEPIS release candidate, version 3.4-3 rc3 addresses the remaining major issues reported by the test 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
It is believed that all of the udev issues have been fixed in the OSCenter. By popular demand, install GRUB at root isan option during installation. The install tips were updated.
All users were added to the lp group, this was needed for third party printer utilities. A missing hotplug file was reinstalled. This may help some users with unrecognized scanners. Canoscan scanners were added to the plustek.conf file.
The floppy driver is being loaded automatically, like in previous versions of SimplyMEPIS. But automatic floppy unmount is unreliable due to a pumount-dbus bug in KDE 3.4.3. It sort of works.
The KDE Restart Computer function no longer offers the option of choosing which OS to restart. This feature is incompatible with the graphical version of GRUB.
The modules config was changed to eliminate erroneous attempts to load ext3 or reiserfs. These modules are built-in the kernel and are never loaded on the fly.
The OnTheGo startup code had to be modified to workaround a recent questionable change to gconf. The Debian keyring was updated to include the 2006 Debian key. OpenOffice was updated to version 2.0.1-1 to fix a problem with creating databases.
By request gpgsm was installed. Ntpdate was reinstalled and rdate was removed to fix a problem when setting the date automatically in kcontrol.
The build was tested with many pluggable devices including Logitech webcam, Canon camera, Panasonic DV camera, Mac Ipod, and Palm Pilot. Everything worked smoothly except the Pilot which was finicky about syncing. The KDE file associations for multimedia were greatly improved. Apple movie trailers in Konq!
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!
