online article: MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian

[Derek Broughton]

Jan Claeys wrote:

> Op dinsdag 31-07-2007 om 07:55 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Mario
> Vukelic:
>> "Dapper was not updated in the way our users expected," Woodford said.
>> "Personally, I think the Ubuntu people spoke sincerely and accurately,
>> but perhaps ambiguously. So there was a misunderstanding among users.
>> The fact is Dapper was updated with security fixes, but not with new
>> versions of the applications."
> 
>> I can only wonder how one can invest lots of time to base MEPIS on
>> Dapper without ever reading up on the LTS cycle. Does not exactly give
>> me confidence in their love of detail.
> 
> I think what he means is that the developers understood, but their users
> didn't...

If that _is_ what he meant, then I think he's trying to shift the burdon of
his customers' upset from his own company, where it belongs, to Ubuntu. 
The "Ubuntu people spoke sincerely" - any "ambiguously" was coming from
Mepis, who managed to mislead their customers into thinking that they were
getting state-of-the-art because the distro was now based on Ubuntu.
-- 
derek