Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 27, 2007 01:22 AM
I can't agree with your "worthy update" assessment Joe. Reason being, since Mepis changed to the Ubuntu (commercial) base, it no longer represents the core supporters that originally came to Mepis to get a user friendly Debian (community) based distribution. Over time, aligning himself with the Ubuntu base, which has a KDE version of it's own (Kubuntu), ultimately spells disaster for Mepis. Once Kubuntu gets up to speed, there just won't be enough to distinguish Mepis from Kubuntu, thereby making it irrelevant. An "also-ran". Getting back to the Debian base would make Mepis distinctive and very much more relevant again.
There is an infinite, albeit subtle, difference between "free versions of commercial (Canonical) distributions" such as is Ubuntu and its variants, and "commercial versions of community (Debian) distributions" such as was Mepis. The former base is "MS-Linux", under the direct control of Mark Shuttleworth which many of us will never accept. While the latter base is "Debian", under the direct contol of the whole community.
I, for one, didn't come to GNU/Linux to escape Microsoft's heavy handed tyrannical rule, just to swap tyrants in the form of yet another clever commercial market share winner. And, am actively campaigning againts Ubuntu/Canonical, and all of its variants for that very reason.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 27, 2007 01:22 AMThere is an infinite, albeit subtle, difference between "free versions of commercial (Canonical) distributions" such as is Ubuntu and its variants, and "commercial versions of community (Debian) distributions" such as was Mepis.
The former base is "MS-Linux", under the direct control of Mark Shuttleworth which many of us will never accept. While the latter base is "Debian", under the direct contol of the whole community.
I, for one, didn't come to GNU/Linux to escape Microsoft's heavy handed tyrannical rule, just to swap tyrants in the form of yet another clever commercial market share winner. And, am actively campaigning againts Ubuntu/Canonical, and all of its variants for that very reason.
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