[Leaplist] Diffrences between Mepis 6.5 Vs. Mepis 7.0

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:07:28AM -0500, Randall Perry wrote:
> On 12/28/07, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
[snip]
> 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
> ------

Then switched back to Debian for 7.0:

  http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6170488551.html

mwa
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