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Announced on December 7th by Warren Woodford and the hard working MEPIS developers, the first Beta release of the upcoming SimplyMEPIS 8.5 operating system is now available for download, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is still based on the Debian Lenny Linux distribution, but it is now powered by the recently released Linux kernel 2.6.32 and it is built on top of the KDE 4.3.2 desktop environment. “This beta includes a 2.6.32 kernel that is one patch short of the final. The next beta will probably contain kernel 2.6.32.1. We still use KDE 4.3.2 but we’re hoping we can leverage the dedicated efforts of the Debian KDE Team to update to a newer version soon. [...] We’ve had a lot of input from users. We’re trying to tweak 8.5 to reflect their suggestions and preferences. In particular, our thanks go out to the community members who designed and tested a new desktop theme for 8.5.” – Warren Woodford said in the official release announcement. Highlights of SimplyMEPIS 8.5 Beta 1: · Linux kernel 2.6.32-1; · EXT4 filesystem; · KDE 4.3.2; · Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5; · Google Gadgets 0.11.0; · Kdenlive 0.7.6; · KMPlayer 0.11.1b; · JBidwatcher; · Sun Java Runt…