MEPIS Founder Plans Transition To Ubuntu

[Randy Gloden]

Lukas Sabota wrote:

>If their going to use the ubuntu base, why don't they contribute
>directly to Ubuntu?  How do their goals differ?  Both Ubuntu and MEPIS
>are GNOME desktop distributions, what does MEPIS want to do differently
>than Ubuntu?
>  
>
Well . . . .to quote Wikipedia

    * MEPIS includes some proprietary (non-free
      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-free>) software not distributed
      by Debian due to their restrictive licenses, including: Sun
      Microsystems <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems> JRE,
      Macromedia Flash <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_Flash>,
      RealPlayer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPlayer> and Adobe
      Reader <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat>.
    * Some software in MEPIS does not respect the Debian Free Software
      Guidelines
      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines>.

They try to make everything work out of the box, including those things 
that have political/philosophical dynamite attached.  Ubuntu has some of 
the same goals, but not at this cost. 

Perhaps
        Mepis = Ubuntu + EasyUbuntu + Configuration per Wiki + 
additional tweaks - stability - canonical level of support

I personally and exicited by this move of Mepis to the Ubuntu base and 
hope it will go forward from Ubuntu as far as Ubuntu has from Debian.

--------Randy

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