MEPIS may be going Ubuntu

[Chanchao]

Hello Daniel,

Thursday, February 9, 2006, 11:46:58 PM, you wrote:

DR> http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/02/09/159207.shtml?tid=2

DR> "MEPIS, one of the more popular Debian-derived distributions, may be
DR> moving in a new direction soon. MEPIS founder Warren Woodford is
DR> considering building future MEPIS releases from Ubuntu sources rather
DR> than from Debian."

Err.. What would be the point?  Or to put it differently, what would he add to Ubuntu that's not
already in Ubuntu?

Mepis was the final Linux I tried that got deleted a couple of days
later. Have been doing that for years, try one or two distributions a
year, then ending up dumping them. Ubuntu was the first Linux based OS
one that *worked* and was friendly enough to use.

Mepis got dumped because sound dind't work, then someone suggested
to run some terminal command... BUZZZZZ --sorry.  If the basics of
getting it to work require typing commands ('alsaconf' I believe it
was) then it's first strike and OUT.

(Also it used KDE if I remember correctly, and installed a CPU
monitor, the Weather Channel and his mother-in-law in the task bar by
default. I don't like that either. :P )

Cheers,
Chanchao