jeremy

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I am happy to announce that another distribution has joined LinuxQuestions.org. Please welcome MEPIS. Participating in the MEPIS forum will be LordDavon, mmelbert, allworld, elmo40 and aveteam. I'd like to thank Warren and David for working with me to get the forum setup.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/f64

--jeremy

elmo40

Welcome everyone to the world of MEPIS

t3gah

Registered: Dec 2004

Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, ubuntu, Debian

Posts: 734

Will there be an interview with the founders of MEPIS one day soon?

jeremy

t3gah, we'll certainly keep Warren in mind for a future interview.

--jeremy

vees

I have mixed feelings about Mepis. I am glad that another distro is available, but I am disturbed by the very vague licensing chosen for Mepis. As far as I can tell, some of the apps are GPLed, but others and not. In fact, I believe that some of them are not even free software at all. I was shown a email by Warren once in which he was asked what the licensing status of Mepis was, and his answer was that "free software zealots should look elswhere".

I hope that this has since changed and that we can all welcome Mepis to the free world.

Is that the case, or still not?

titanium_geek

vees, there is another thread for discussing this issue- there is no need to sully an announcement.

titanium_geek

vees

Sorry if this is the wrong place - I am a newbie around here - I just though that the issue deserved attention.

titanium_geek

have you seen the search feature? it's right up the top of the site on the blue bar. this is the link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=325554

titanium_geek

vees

thanks for the link. I read the discussion with great interest (and with as much regrets about the path chosen by Warren for his distro).

Cheers!