Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 30th Jul 2007 21:52 UTC, submitted by da_Chicken
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux,
is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from Debian for the next version of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.0. The plan was to use Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), a.k.a. Dapper Drake, as MEPIS' foundation. Things have changed.
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One could take a contrary view that rather than employ resources to develop Mepis and Ubuntu separate from the Debian "base", that instead, these same resources be employed to strengthen Debian and abolish the idea of fragmented inheritance.
Consolidate resources (time, devs, money)...
Focus effort (on the base, not the fragments)....
Reduce Market confusion (the # of distros is confusing)...
That Ubuntu is that popular says, to me, Debian is that solid, otherwise, Mepis wouldn't be going full circle. So why stop at the seeming logic of using Debian as the base. Debian could be more than the base.
I'll bet there are some Debian purists out there saying, thanks for your help now go away! But what is the goal? The Desktop or (to borrow a phrase)
"To have a lot of fun?"
Winning the Desktop would be a lot of fun. It won't happen watching major distros jockey for position like this.