Hi everybody,

I hope you have a great holiday season. Thanks for all of your help this past
year. Please pass this message on to others in the community.

With assistance from mepis-france.org, the magazine LinuxIdentity, from Oxy Press, has released a special issue featuring SimplyMEPIS 6.5 with DVDs localized in French. For more information, visit LinuxIdentity.com

Steven Vaughan-Nichols analyzed the Microsoft Xandros non-agression pact and featured observations made by MEPIS founder Warren Woodford. Read the article here: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4862361523.html

A new addition has finally been added to the MEPIS site. You will now notice that you can see how many posts a user has made. The number of posts can be found directly under the users name.

As many of you know, daylight savings time is coming two weeks earlier this year and lasting an extra two weeks as well.

This afternoon we have finally integrated your MEPIS.org login to the wiki. If you have a MEPIS.org login you can now log into any of the MEPIS Wikis with that same login.

Hi all,

As many of you have noticed, recently we've has some problems with ISO file checksums. After a lot of testing here, we've determined that the problem is very elusive, probably in hardware, and it started happening when we added a new server.

The MEPIS penguin is 4-inches tall, foam, and squeezable.

In response to your feedback, we have added two new products at the MEPIS Store: a premium MEPIS Sportshirt and a Platinum Level Download that includes the sportshirt and a DVD as a thank you gift. Head on over to the Store and show your support for MEPIS!

We are happy to welcome four new moderators to the MEPIS Forums! In addition to drlizau and joeintenn, who have been doing an excellent job of moderating the forums, we now have AdrianTM, carlops, EnigmaOne, and Jon Du Quesne as part of the team.