Dear tech forums,

Great news! Kudos to the Epidemic gnu linux is better and better, now with the most optimized zen kernel. Now becoming the first brazilian rolling release distro!View at trash80.org/epidemic/index.php

The Epidemic 3.2 Beta is released today on July 26, 2010. Among the main features:

1 - small ISO with about 800 MB;

2 - eMorph, an application designed to work as a second step in the Epidemic intallation process, allowing extendender or remove functionality with just a few mouse clicks;

3 - eUpgrade, an application to facilitate the Epidemic update, which will enable make it a rolling release distro;

4 - KPackageKit, instead of Synaptic, as the default graphical package manager;

5 - LXDE as an option for lighter and system maintenance in the event of a fall in KDE;

6 - New Kernel 2.6.34-epidemic, with a series of improvements for better performance on desktops (based on the Zen kernel );

7 - Several enhancements in the existing applications such as Einstaller, ESU, ePlymouth, eXorg, etc..

8- English, spanish and portuguese versions.

9- with smxi/sgxi support.

Get in touch with us who can tranlate to the german and other languages.

Please visit our english support forum at trash80.org/epidemic/index.php

main page at www.epidemiclinux.org/ (with english/spanish/portuguese)

The Epidemic gnu Linux Team.

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Epidemic GNU/Linux is very nice. Good Debian testing (Squeeze), custom Zen kernel and (IMO) a good looking KDE 4.4.4 (which is nice by itself in all respects).
On top of that it has some useful custom tools and it seems it adopts the promising packagekit.
Its own tools need some polishing for the English translations despite the hard work from Otto (carioca). The translation wiki for them is at www.epidemiclinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_Epidemic_para_o_ingl%C3%AAs_%28en_US%29 and I 've already revised the ones there. There are the installer, the upgrade app and the meta-package installer that ain't available yet for translation but hopefully wil be soon so anyone interested in making this distro available with the most correct English translation will be able to do so.

Tip: this beta live-dvd (only 833 MB though) comes with the NVIDIA 256.35 graphics driver but not with the 173 and 96 series. So people using older NVIDIA cards can edit GRUB's 'linux' line adding the xdriver=nv parameter.
In my old desktop I had to use the 'failsafe' option to boot, removing the xdriver parameter so it used the proprietary driver for my GF 6200.

Again, its English support forum is at epidemic.trash80.org/
And of course, 3.2 is still in beta1 stage, anyone can help to shape the final version and any contribution certainly will be very much welcomed.
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