MEPIS 3.4-3 - Extras CD ISOs Available
Morgantown, WV, February 27, 2006: MEPIS founder, Warren Woodford, announced that three extras CD ISOs for SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 are now available at the MEPIS subscription site.
The extras CD ISOs are provided as a convenience for subscribers. When a package is installed from the Debian pools, it may trigger an undesired update of many other packages. Also the Debian etch and sid pools have become more and more unstable during the past 6 months. The extras CDs avoid that problem by providing versions of packages that were available at the time the MEPIS products were finalized.
These 3 isos contain about 1,500 of the most popular extra apps for documentation, language support, KDE, games, software development, GNOME, and servers. Also included is a snapshot of the MEPIS pool.
The MEPIS pool packages may be used to upgrade from earlier versions of the 3.4 release and pre-releases of SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3. The upgrades may also work for earlier versions of SimplyMEPIS.
The pool upgrades include the latest versions of meauto for hardware detection, mepis-oscenter for extra utilities, mepis-onthego for running a home directory on an encrypted usb key, OpenOffice 2.0.1 for database fixes, Firefox 1.5.0.1 for security fixes, and a freshly built 2.6.15 kernel in three flavors 586tsc, 686-smp, and k7-smp.
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 built for the original DCC release.
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 authorize third parties to sell MEPIS products at eBay!
