After 5 months of work, the Website Teamhas finished its revision of the Offical MEPIS website and made it live. Many Community members contributed to this work through design, writing, editing, coding, and review, and we all can be justifiably proud of the result!
Whew, that was a long time. As one Community member said: "A day without MepisLovers is a day without sunshine." Warren has explained that the whole server (and its mobo) at the data center was out, and required multiple people working on it for a number of days. Great that everything is running smoothly again.
The whole MEPIS site continues to be down. The problem is upstream, and started Tuesday morning, May 18. That means that mepis.org, the MEPIS Wiki, and MepisLovers Forum are currently inoperable. Warren comments: "the MEPIS servers are down due to a problem at the data center--I don't have an ETA for when it will be fixed." We are just going to have to be patient...
Warren has announced the release of a netbook version of MEPIS 8.5. Designed to fit on a 1 GB USB key, this version contains a number of extra applications and basic localization support for a few languages. It is available from the mirrors or from the store.
Anticapitalista has announced that antiX-M8.5 "Marek Edelman" is now available in both full and base version. The fast, light, flexible and complete operating system based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing can be downloaded from this site.
Some changes are in the air! Warren has asked Brooko (Paul Brooks) to serve temporarily as Community Manager in order to set up and organize various projects. Brooko has shown his capabilities before on complicated projects for MEPIS, and the Community is grateful for his finding the time to take this on. Projects include such areas as development, website, marketing and others, so it should get pretty interesting around here. If you have the time, talent and interest, please get involved!
