[Leaplist] Diffrences between Mepis 6.5 Vs. Mepis 7.0

[Randall Perry]

On 12/28/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Ah, So! Mepis 7.0 is based upon Debian Etch, and not Ubuntu, as was
> Mepis 6.5!  That would account for some differences.
>
> I notice that each distro of GNU/Linux concentrates upon different
> services, and that some not so important to the developers of a distro,
> are not perfected until the users complain on the forums.
>
> I think I'll wait to switch to Mepis 7.0.  At least until the Ubuntu
> repositories expire in a couple years.

Not such a straight-forward distribution (as far as following branches
of distributions)
Mepis was based on Debian and then switched to Ubuntu (which itself is
based on Debian) because of both technical and political reasons.

>From the Mepis site on Ubuntu:
-------
  In 2006, MEPIS transitioned from using Debian packages to using
Ubuntu packages.
  SimplyMEPIS 6.0, released in July 2006, is the first version of
MEPIS to incorporate the
  Ubuntu packages and repositories. The MEPIS team has plans to begin
work on a 64-bit
  version of SimplyMEPIS, as well as new releases of MEPISLite and ForensicMEPIS
------

Mepis was using the Debian source tree directly until 2006.
Ubuntu was more desirable, as they take debian 'untested' and fix and adjust.
Woodford wanted it to work better and not have to fight the volatility
of Debian (and the warm, loving community that works on Debian
--SIDE NOTE: ask Bryan Smith about the Koombayah sessions and group
hugs (NOT) as he  was a paid Debian kernel maintainer for awhile

There was also some arguments over at Debian with the DCC Alliance (at
the time Mepis was a part of the org and now Mepis recently left the
DCC)

According to Distrowatch news:
 MEPIS 7.0 is based on a Debian Etch core combined with up-to-date
user applications that are recompiled by MEPIS from upstream Debian
and Ubuntu common source code. Debian Etch users are welcome to get
their updated applications from the MEPIS pools.

You can point your Mepis to debian repositories for updates or you can
include Ubuntu.

More about the switching to Ubuntu here:
http://www.linux.com/articles/52020

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