First Glance at SimplyMEPIS 8.5

All Linux users have their own vision of the ideal distribution. Some people crave stability, others want new and exciting features, some people are very security focused and others are concerned about licensing. Warren Woodford has his own vision and he's made it accessible to the world via MEPIS. This week he was willing to take a few minutes to talk about his creation.

OSNews: MEPIS has previously used Debian as its base. But, as I recall, a while back you decided to switch to Ubuntu and then switched back. Could you please tell us what platform MEPIS uses now and why?

WW: MEPIS is mostly based on Debian Stable. We believe the Debian team produces the most thoroughly tested and reliable Linux source code on the planet. At Mark Shuttleworth's urging I tried to base MEPIS on Ubuntu a few years ago and it resulted in a big mess. So I returned to Debian and have been happy with my decision ever since.

MEPIS has a unique build strategy. We try to accommodate the desire of users for the latest versions of applications while maintaining the most stable foundation possible.

Our most stable build, in a release cycle, has a foundation based on the latest Debian Stable.




Future of Mepis maybe cloud computing ? Howto build a foundation

Open source is basically file names standardized so that one can switch file for different computer functionality. When we do browser operating system, browser can do offline functions as well as online functions. Offline we are doing file switching; online we have to do packet switching. Internet was rich content and packets are now .net packets or soap equivalent. But to prevent bottle necks, we prefer to use simpler posix packet to carry many .net packets. Posix packet format can be changed by packet converters to deliver to any virtual private networks. But in order to do cloud computing, we have to have standards of array names for users and their data; so that we can sort or query any database and use object technology to get our data and use artificial intelligence to do the task on hand(like send out millions of email or SMS).

With this in mind, Mepis will be ready for browser opeating system to do cloud computing. So far Mepis has learned enough on Linux file switching file name standards, and probably added some file names not in the GCC library? Cloud computing may have to start with Drupal and Cassandra array names for XML data stored for users. Its time to start collecting Drupal and Cassandra array names for a cloud computing standard in cloud utilities? Barry Kualer used to spend a good time looking for tcl apps? Many of us are starting to look for array names for search engines sorted into another database, then genrators to take the data to send email or sms messages by simple HLDL(high level design language) commands to write simple programs to get computer to do automatic productivity jobs.

Once the software foundation is build, we will need netbooks or appliance of terabytes of memory all nonvolitile flash cards, which only need electricity when it reads or writes.

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