You can now purchase SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Beta on CD and receive a coupon code that allows you to get SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Final on CD for $5.00 to cover shipping costs. The final release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0 is expected around July 17, 2006. This offer is good until September 1, 2006.

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just lying around collecting dust? If so, consider donating it to further MEPIS development.

Community members in the US:  If you have a printer or scanner that does not work with MEPIS, and you would like to donate it to us, please contact us.

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The MEPIS websites need a facelift and we need your help to do it. If you are a web designer and would like to help us, we would love to talk to you. We need people that are creative, like to work with a group, and most importantly have some time to spare.

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It takes time and money to make and distribute MEPIS. We try to give as much as possible for free, but we have expenses...

We appreciate those of you who have already supported MEPIS by buying subscriptions and CDs. In our quest to make MEPIS better and to meet your needs, we want to find out what we can do for you that will also gain the financial support of more MEPIS users.

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For the next generation of MEPIS products, we are reconsidering our logo and colors. 

We would like to know what you think of our logo and would love to hear any comments or ideas you may have. You can include comments in the poll section, but please stick to talking about the logo! 

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Thanks to everyone who voted in the polls and provided feedback about the kernel. Warren's planning to start a blog in a few days so that he can respond to questions that were asked about the kernel.

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We've had several people ask how to get the OpenOffice help files and why they are not included on the installation CD.

We don't include the files because they are large and there isn't room for them on the CD. We try to include the packages we think users will want the most but we always have to make compromises.

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Today, January 8, 2006, there will be maintenance on the server. You may find that the web site will be unavailable today. Please bear with us as we make these changes.

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Update December 24: The French Parliament has tabled the proposed law for now and will debate it in January.  Hopefully sanity will prevail.

On December 23, the French Parliament will vote on the DADVSI Law, which stems from the European Union Copyright Directive and the American Digital Millenium Copyright Act.  These laws make it illegal to circumvent digital media copyright protection measures in the United States and several other countries.  If the DADVSI law passes, VideoLAN and the debian-marillat repository will be directly impacted, and several packages for playing digital media, including libdvdcss2 and Win32 codecs will no longer be available.  The DVD Encryption Library, libdvdcss2, enables Linux media players to play encrypted DVDs, and VideoLAN is the only Debian source for this package.

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Robin Miller, author of Point and Click Linux, created 2 new videos for MEPIS. One video is a tour of SimplyMEPIS and the other is a tutorial for OpenOffice.org Draw. Robin has a new book called Point and Click OpenOffice.org, which is available for preorder and will be released on December 6, 2005.

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