Cooperation between MEPIS and Kubuntu?

[Didier Raboud]

Le Mercredi 12 Avril 2006 00:54, Simon Rönnqvist a écrit :
>   Hi!
>
> I've been bothered with the bugginess of Kubuntu and from what I've read
> it's caused many people to swich to SimplyMEPIS. (Haven't tried it much
> myself, so I can't tell wether it's more stable or not... but I guess it
> is.)
>
> Well anyways, now it seems like SimplyMEPIS is going to be Ubuntu based
> (instead of Debian-based) it just occured to me that this may be a time
> when both projects could benefit from more organised cooperation. Maybe
> even eventually merging the two into one, I don't know.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Check this out: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03351
>
> cheers, Simon

Hi.

I think this can be reported to another question :

"Why did Mark Shuttleworth start a new distro an did not contribute directly 
to Debian ?"

I fear it is the natural way of the distribution's ecosystem. Gnoppix is based 
on Knoppix, itself being based on Debian (this is bad example, I now). 
Everybody works on lightly different goals, but everybody releases new work, 
bug fixes, translations to upstream or in GPL. Everybody works for its own  
purpose, but in everybody's advantage.

Maybe SimplyMepis should contribute to Kubuntu, maybe Kubuntu should be 
SimplyMEPIS, or the inverse. Maybe Debian should be Ubuntu, or inverse.

But Ubuntu is Ubuntu, Mandrake is no more RedHat and we have a great bunch of 
different distros, each one serving a lightly different purpose, but all 
being working for us to have free and libre software.

So maybe SimplyMEPIS should work with Kubuntu, or inversly, but I think that 
in every case, the work and energy will come back at a time or another. Thq 
answer, finally does not have a so big importance. We don't make money from 
Kubuntu, so as long as Kubuntu will be fine for me, I will use it, when 
another will be better *for me*, I will probably change, but kernel will have 
grown, software will have been better. Linux goes his path.

So. Sorry for being so FSF-GNU-GPL-FLOSS idealist, but I really think that 
question will be the same for a long long time, as a perfect distro for one 
can not be perfect for another one.

So, have a good night, 

Didier

P.S. Sorry for bad english and please assign misunderstanding to bad english.
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