| MEPIS (and Debian) upgrades available now |
Feb. 21, 2006
MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has announced upgrades for SimplyMEPIS 3.4. The upgrade packages, which are now available in the MEPIS apt source pool, enable SimplyMEPIS 3.4-x users to upgrade their systems to the latest SimplyMEPIS version, version 3.4-3.
Users might also be able to upgrade earlier versions of SimplyMEPIS. To give this a try, check out the MEPIS.org forum or the MEPISLovers.com forum.
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.
The kernel is built from the official Debian upstream sources but with a MEPIS config file. A full set of kernel binary packages have been produced. These are the same as the Debian kernel packages except that MEPIS builds a 586tsc kernel instead of a 486 kernel and the MEPIS kernels contain extra patches for sk98lin, dell-usb-floppy, and enable-sata-cdrom.
Many of the drivers have been prebuilt and are now available for the 2.6.15 kernel. These include alsa, bcm4400, bcm5700, cloop, e1000, e100, fglrx, ieee80211, intel536ep, ipw2100, ipw2200, ixgb, ltmodem, madwifi, ndiswrapper, vidia, pwc, qc-usb, rt2400, rt2500 (non-smp only), spca5xx, unionfs, and usbvision.
MEPIS creator Warren Woodford said, "For this release, MEPIS and Debian kernels are binary compatible if the kernel version and flavor are the same. Users of Debian kernels are welcome to use the MEPIS pre-built drivers."
"The MEPIS kernel is configured to be easy to update for critical hardware. Special attention is given to Intel hardware compatibility. The Intel network drivers, wireless drivers, and the ALSA drivers are compiled and packaged external to the kernel. This allows us to issue updates for just those drivers, for example when Intel releases a new series of motherboards," continued Woodford.
The upgrades are available from the MEPIS apt source pool, which is located here.
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