MEPIS has announced that SimplyMEPIS 8.4.95, the third beta of MEPIS 8.5, is available from MEPIS and public mirrors.

"This beta includes kernel 2.6.32.2, which we reconfigured slightly, based on user feedback, so kdenlive works with DV cameras. Kipi-plugins were updated to the new 1.0.0 release. And the beginning defaults for dolphin and the desktop were adjusted to be more 'MEPIS-like.' Konq-plugins were added to the build, to give us additional functionality in the KDE browser and file management."

"For both 8.5 and 8.0; hwdata, hwinfo, and initramfs-tools were updated to improve hardware support. Thanks to the support of the University of Kent, there is a MEPIS package mirror at mirrorservice.org. The 8.5 and 8.0 apt sources.list was modified to point to it by default. This should improve package update speed for many users."

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