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Warren Woodford has announced that the third release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is ready for testing: "MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. We've updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux kernel team indicated that....

Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the first release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a new version of the Debian-based desktop distribution, now with KDE 4: "SimplyMEPIS 8.4.98, release candidate 1 of MEPIS 8.5, is now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Major packages have not changed since....

Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the fifth beta version of SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a beginner-friendly distribution based on Debian's stable branch featuring the latest KDE 4 desktop: "MEPIS has announced SimplyMEPIS 8.4.97, the fifth beta of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Deltas, requested....

Warren Woodford has announced that the third release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is ready for testing: MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. We've updated the kernel to ...

Warren Woodford has announced the release of SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution with KDE 4, based on Debian GNU/Linux: "For SimplyMEPIS 8.5 we started with the stable Debian 'Lenny' core and then selectively introduced updated packages that make SimplyMEPIS 8.5 a more timely operating system. Specifically,....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Gazing at Scientific Linux News: On first beta of RHEL 6, hidden features in Fedora 13, Edubuntu 10.04 improvements, new SimplyMEPIS USB images, the end of Xandros Desktop Questions and answers: Release cycles Released last week: PCLinuxOS 2010, Macpup Opera 2.0 Upcoming....

The release candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", the last testing build before the final version scheduled for release next week, is ready for download: "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu 10.04....

The first release candidate for TinyMe 2010, a Unity-based Linux distribution for older computers, is out and ready for testing: "TinyMe 2010 'Acorn' i586 Release Candidate 1 has shipped. This release largely consists of bug fixes and package upgrades. TinyCC, the desktop configuration tool from TinyMe 2008, has....

After four beta releases, the first release candidate for the upcoming MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian distribution based on Slackware Linux, is now ready for testing. Compared to the last beta release, these are some of the most important changes in RC1: several packages have been rebuilt to add....

Warren Woodford has announced the release of antiX MEPIS 8.5, a lightweight MEPIS variant designed for older computers: Nine months since the release of antiX M8.2, the antiX team announce that antiX MEPIS 8.5 - a fast, light, ...

George Vlahavas has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Salix OS 13.1, a Slackware-based distribution featuring a custom Xfce desktop: "So here is Salix 13.1 RC1. Let us test this and then release 13.1 final in about a week. The repositories for version 13.1 are....