Is MEPIS 8 expected this year? Just curious.

Simply MEPIS 7.9.70 beta 1 has been out for about three weeks now, based on Lenny with a 2.2.26-1 kernel.

http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17187

And now the second Beta has been announced: http://www.mepis.org/node/14198.

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newbiesforever,

I do not believe there is a road map for Mepis-8 or the next version Mepis-9 and when they will go gold...

I presume the final releases of Mepis-8 will depend upon how much time and refinement warren might provide in the distro, before its operating ease and capabilities reach his standards for release... I like the second beta release of Mepis-8, if my memory serves me well it appears to be a bit more stable and complete than the second release of Mepis-7 last year...

All of the above is my opinion and sincere speculation, based upon my limited experience with the distro's history. Mepis as far as I know and enjoy has been good for me, with the many updated software applications that have been back-ported to run in mepis-7...

I think that a good number of Mepis supporters have done a great job assisting Mepis-7 in its new position as a rolling release with many newer updated software packages, thus taking it many steps above the previous 6.5.02 version I started using...

I understand there are a group of Mepis users with a longing for the older versions, I do not have that experience to rely upon, my Linux usage and experience is a shorter duration. I am still trying to toss the Microsoft methods and understanding into the wind, to be more productive using my computer...

So far I like what I have seen/used of the Mepis-8 beta, running version 7 & the 2nd beta side by side. I used the same procedure last year running a stable 6.5.02, and comparing it to Mepis-7 during its beta testing period...

JR
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AMD Phenom 9500 Agena 2.2GHz running in a ECS A770M-A Motherboard, with DVI graphic displayed by an Asus EAH3850 on a 21 inch LCD monitor...

That's exactly how I'm doing it. I have M8 B2 in one partition, and use it for things like the new Gimp (2.6) and QGIS (11.0). And I am slowly moving stuff over from the Home partition, setting up the configuration and installing the other apps I use whenever I have time.

I like starting with a clean install because it takes away all the mistakes I have been making over the last year...

wcc1776,

I think that's a 2.6.26.2 kernel --
from http://www.mepis.org/node/14194:

You're right archtoad6, Warren updated the kernel,after that post. I believe the version he upgraded to is 2.6.26-5.
Wayne

As of the 20th of this month, the SimplyMEPIS betas will be based upon the 2.6.27 kernel.

Current beta release is 3 (SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.90-beta_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.90-beta_64.iso) and is available via the usual sites ( See: http://www.mepis.org/mirrors and http://mepis.gabston-howell.org/ )

(Hey Allan--good to see you around again, hope all is well.)

Anybody interested in MEPIS 8 and the community should check out the new community web site: http://www.mepiscommunity.org. We are all pretty excited about the new kernel decision, and everybody is testing the third beta at the moment. Glad to have help...

Why mepiscommunity.org?

[What's wrong w/ | How is it different from ] mepislovers.org?

Sounds like duplication & fragmentation to me, but I'd love to hear some good reasons why not.

I have been seeding both the 32 & 64-bit beta3 versions...

Either torrent you want is a few from the top of the list...
http://linuxtracker.org/

JR

Not everyone like the way mepislivers is run.
Nothing wrong with choices.

Same question you could ask on why mepis itself exists.

Just started experimenting w/ another GNU/Linux distro to try on my Asus Gaming series LTs (about 1 year old Intel G1S-B1 & AMD G2K-A1 machines}. Had started 7.0 when I finally found 8 betas.

I think I like the Mepis manual that installs from 7.0 Live-CD, may even get to love it, IF I can activate my AR5418 WiFi (Q1). Nada luck so far following all the instructions. Numerous reboots & setting in Network Asst & manager! ifconfig Unknown command as user or root

Dislike Mepis root & user session log in stlye, prefer entering root PW (sudo method) AND the fact that many GRUB are designed for ONLY dual-boot w/ M$ Windoz style OS. I have attempted to load 5 or 6 of my latest choices, BUT the bootloaders only recognize the current install & the immediately previous install. {BL only displays 2 choices} Sometimes I get Error 13 when attempting the 1st of 3 when both MBR & Boot part were used alternately or NO choice offered during install.
Have attempted to use a boot partition as described in LQ wiki(s) vs just to the MBR as common practice (aka Old-School?) before. Saw some notes about having to edit grublist or words to that effect not sure how to obtain the UUIDs [Q2].

AT6, They are one & the same as of very recently. One is archived as R O. Other is active for new Q & A.

I just Dld a M8b# (7.9.90beta-64) this AM, burned ISO9660 w/ K3b & verifried written data, BUT no boot/load haung @ accessing mepis cdrom on sr0! At 1st my screen showed something about NO FIles found on the CD, happened 2 or 3 x, never proceeded to "creating /ramdisk ..." message line.
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And now after having viewed CD contents it appears to start booting the Live CD (Default &/or Failsafe? BUT after many messages (Just beyond configuring Live CD)
COnfiguring console for a us keymap
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block #########
SQUASH FS Error
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This last time seemed to (Default=fewer Buffer I/O error lines, Failsafe has more ?) proceed to Live CD login OK then screen blanked !*!

Q3: Do I have bad Download(DL) or is it common to try many times to wakeup a Mepis beta CD ?? Or is it a hardware error? LT seems to work OK!

www.mepiscommunity.org is a new website developed by several Mepislovers members, with Warren Woodford's approval. If you haven't checked it out yet, give it a look.
Wayne

Were they not satisfied with Mepislovers?