Spake steve szmidt on Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 08:28AM -0500:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> > Jonathan Brown wrote:
> > > I haven't used Debian in a while (I use ArchLinux on my main machine
> > > now), but I assume you are using Ubuntu
> >
> > Hi Jon!
> >
> > Actually, Mepis. Looks like I'm toast. Oh, well, nothing much to report
> > anyway. So many flavors of Linux!
>
> Not sure why you feel you would be toast, but most distro's are based on one
> of four main ones. In this case Mepis is based on Debian. Thus you can
> install for example Adobe's Acrobat Reader.
>
Mixing debian packages in ubuntu packages in debian, or debian
packages in ubuntu is always a bad idea, and I'd never recommend it to
someone. Source packages tend to be compatible between ubuntu and
debian, but afaik package maintainers do not make any effort to keep the
binaries compatible.
Part of the reason for the growing dominance of dpkg-based distros is
that debian and ubuntu package maintainers have high standards, and the
user community doesn't mix and match crap as is common -- even
encouraged -- for rpms.
Now, mepis has such a small community that they try to stay roughly
compatible with debian sid, outside of kernel-space:
http://www.mepis.org/node/3232
You can't just say it's because mepis is based on debian; it's because
mepis has not diverged much from debian. :)
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