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Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS has announced 21 eighth time anniversary of MEPIS on November SimplyMepis 11.0 Alpha 3 release. SimplyMepis takes usually quite a while to cook and no final release date has been given.

This release "with Debian squeeze, but with a 2.6.36 kernel continue." "In this version has MEPIS backported the Galbraith latency patch, improved desktop performance." This patch has latency attention, received its inclusion on the Linux kernel mailing list lately, since and offers higher performance for some desktop setups discussed. Some users have reported greatly increased performance while others it really only advantages opened State processes under additional TTY (PTS). Also reported that the patch NULL cause could pointer dereference bugs but Galbraith said it was anyway rewrite. In any case, it is an interesting move by the normally conservative Woodford.

Alpha in this cycle were developmental something more than 800 MB in size, and some say Woodford should just go ahead and add all sorts of additional software and graphic material, (or USB key) because the ISO already requires a DVDrom. More documents the street may arise later.

Alpha 1 had a bug which prevents that the live image on many PCs boot and although Woodford, that said "Some bugs have been fixed, the affected installation and boot from USB key" problems prevent boot-up DVD in alpha 2 continued. So, an alpha 3 released soon to fix it.

So far, 11.0 has a fairly new boot splash, but the login and desktop decorations remain largely unchanged. KDE 4.4.5 is the featured desktop with applications like Firefox 3.5.6, GIMP 2.6.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 provided. Unless no other radical changes are the latency patch is the latest stable version, but it's still very early.

Woodford reflects on MEPIS, "it was launched 8 years the MEPIS Linux project that before today, when Warren Woodford would be decided to create a version of Linux that easily try from CD to install the live environment and easy for everyone to use." "In the course of the years have reported by SimplyMEPIS first OS is one year old children, and the first OS of the 90-year-old adults."

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