SimplyMEPIS 6.5 for 32 and 64 bit Intel and AMD based PCs and MacTels has been released by MEPIS. 6.5 started as a minor update to the Ubuntu pool compatible 6.0 release of SimplyMEPIS but the project quickly expanded to add the 7.1 X window manager, newer display and wireless drivers, Mac Intel support, Amarok music player with music store and mtp support, and the experimental Beryl 3D desktop.

Some of the important package changes in the 6.5 release are: an updated and security patched 2.6.15 kernel, Xorg 7.1.2, Firefox 2.0.0.3, Digikam 0.9.0, Sun Java 6.00, Amarok 1.4.4 with mtp, mplayer

1.0.rc1, fuse driver 2.6.1, ntfs-3g 1.0, madwifi-ng Atheros driver 0.9.2, wpa-supplicant 0.5.4, ALSA sound drivers 1.0.14rc3, NVIDIA driver 1.0.9755, NVIDIA legacy driver 1.0.9631, ATI fglrx driver 8.31.5, Beryl 0.2.0, and QT 4.2.3. … I don’t see the reason why they have such old version of KDE shipping …. though as stated by the developers = for the purpose of stability. KDE 3.5.6 is indeed very stable and tested on whole lot of distributions. Same can be said about the kernel and X.Org …. I understand the distro is Ubuntu driven but latest, even though beta, Feisty has 2.6.20.

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