MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. SimplyMEPIS is designed for both personal and business purposes.

It includes cutting-edge features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, and much more.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This release includes recent Debian Lenny security updates as well as MEPIS updates that are compatible between MEPIS versions 8.0 and 8.5. The MEPIS updates include: kernel 2.6.27.43, openoffice.org 3.1.1-12, firefox 3.5.6-1, flashplugin-nonfree 2.8, and bind9 9.6.1P2-1. Also available are: skype 2.1.0.47. mono 2.4.2.3

· Compatibility and reliability have been improved with: nvidia 185.18.36-2, nvidia-legacy 96.43.13, wl-modules 5.10.91.9.3, acpi-support 0.132, klibc 1.5.1.5, initramfs-tools 0.93.4, hwinfo 16.0-2, and hwdata 0.225-1.

· The MEPIS installer was updated to fix a recently discovered bug that sometimes interfered with installing MEPIS as the only OS a hard drive. There were minor tweaks to mepis-init, mepis-xconfig, and mepis-config.