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the sheer nature of your reply already indicates this is not just a matter of principles. The Mepis installer is of course much simpler than Sarge. So is its out of the box hardware recognition and configuring. Your perception of 'the community' seems to be different than mine. For me, it is a living organism that benefits from as many new users as possible, not a monolithic old boys'club of computer savvy geeks. Mepis definitely draws many new users to debian, and forms part of the DCC (which could not carry Debian's name for petty reasons), so don't tell me mepis is not important for debian or Linux. Maybe more important and in-line with the debian philosophy from certain viewpoints than Ubuntu which is free and open by your definitions. Again, if you're not happy with their philosophy, fine, just don't rise to the occasion when someone writes a glowing review to spit your bile. Now THAT harms the community spirit more than some guy who decides to single handedly build a very good debian based distro and wants to make some profit from it.

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