DesktopLinux: MEPIS Founder Clarifies MEPIS/Ubuntu Relationship

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"MEPIS Linux founder Warren Woodford began, a year ago, to migrate MEPIS from Debian to Ubuntu packages, and in July achieved the first Ubuntu-based simplyMEPIS release. In light of the recently announced Linspire/Ubuntu collaboration, DesktopLinux.com asked Woodford to clarify the MEPIS/Ubuntu relationship.

"To get the discussion going, we forwarded Woodford a statement that had been posted in our discussion forum by a reader ('archtoad6') of a recent DesktopLinux.com article, regarding the relationship between MEPIS and Ubuntu. In addition, we added a few of our own questions..."

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