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Topic: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

I don't know a thing about all that both projects do to put out a distro, but at this point in time it seems that the duplication of effort could be done away with by merging ? AntiX is based on Mepis but that is a technicality, it is basically debian with fluxbox and IceWM. Now that you are debian based, too...

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

Try them both and you will see they are different in almost every way (base distro, windows manager, default web browser, artwork, developer's politics, etc.). Both are excellent projects and should continue as-is, IMHO. smile

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

crunchbang is good on its own, I think smile smile

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

I've use both #! and Anti-X and Mepis 8.5

#!Crunchang is most awesome on it's own.  Don't merge.

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

I tried Antix on the big box some time ago, nice and quick, but uses a miixture of repositories so I had some problems creeping in when updating (could have been me rather than the distro). I also understand that AntiX uses the Mepis kernel.

My understanding of #! (which I may have wrong totally) is that it is basically using Debian Squeeze as the foundation with a different set of packages on top, but at least mostly from the same repositories.

I'd suggest keeping them separate. I'll be staying with Squeeze when it goes stable rather than setting the Debian repositories to 'testing' - I'm assuming a choice we get to make?

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

keithpeter wrote:

I'll be staying with Squeeze when it goes stable rather than setting the Debian repositories to 'testing' - I'm assuming a choice we get to make?

Linux is all about choices smile and yes, that is correct.

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Re: ? Merge with Mepis Antix ?

Please no, after a long discussion about pros and cons ubuntu/debian etc, it is now time to enjoy and explore the debian base. We are in fact at the first alpha stage, so give corenominal some time, space and tranquillity to continue his work on statler. I am sure both distros will do fine by themselves.

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