Re: Ubuntu Migration

I will be the first to apologize for that announcement.  Warren and 
myself are not very happy about that one.  Neither of us have posted 
it.....and I do not have the power to remove it...Warren may remove it 
from the front page if he remembers to.  Neither of us like direct 
comparisons with other distros.  As Warren said in our conversation it 
goes beyond comparing Ubuntu vs MEPIS....it goes down to KDE vs Gnome 
and we dont like to get into those things.  On a personal note, and I 
speak soley for myself, I didnt even think the review was a very good 
review.  It was heavily biased and flat out rude.  Again personally I 
dont think that review deserves to be on the front page of the MEPIS 
site especially since it pushes our newsworthy stories lower down on the 
page.  MEPIS attending LinuxWorld Boston and our new test releases I 
believe are much more important then that review.   Of course one of our 
blackeyes had to be on this night.  

UPDATE:  I just called Warren back and asked him to remove the article 
from the front page.  We both agreed that it was in appropriate for that 
article to be placed on there.  It has been removed from the front page. 

Matt



Brian Pack wrote:

>On Thursday 03 February 2005 08:57 pm, Matthew D. Melbert wrote:
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>>Reading you threads sometimes really make me wonder about your group
>>sometimes.  I know this is the morlug/morfree group, and there may be
>>some differing viewpoints, but I still cant stop wondering why you guys
>>do not take advantage of the opportunity you guys have in your
>>"backyard".  I constantly hear everyone talking about other distos and
>>never hear a breath about MEPIS.  Working with Warren Woodford I do know
>>that I have biased opinion about this topic but I still have to wonder
>>if there is something fatally wrong with MEPIS to not ever hear a
>>mention of it.  Is there anything wrong with MEPIS...if there isnt I
>>think that there is a heck of an opportunity being wasted....if there is
>>something wrong I would like to hear about it so that we can have a
>>chance to fix the issues and make a more desireable product.
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>It's not very appealing when the top announcement is a user writing to slam 
>another distro. How is that *news*? Ubuntu isn't the enemy. Neither are 
>Knoppix or SuSE. If there is an enemy, it's the monolith out of Redmond.
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