Wow, I apologize as I had no idea that MX-14 was developed specifically for Jerry and his Netbook. I'll remove it from all of my computers right away. I guess I thought it was a release to the general public because it has a link on Distrowatch, a project page, help forum, good documentation, and even great video tutorials. It seems like a lot of effort went into the marketing of the system from day one but obviously I'm mistaken.uncle mark wrote:Much ado about nothing. At least that's how I see it, based on what the MX team had as a goal and what they've achieved.
IIUC, Jerry had a "vision" of a Linux distro that came directly from his desire to better utilize his underpowered but perfectly usable netbook(s). His goal was a stable, fully functional Xfce OS that included LibreOffice, fit on a CD, and was light enough to run on the hardware target he had in mind. He reached out to anticapitalista and got him on board, assembled a group of contributors from both the MEPIS and antiX camps, and rode them like rented mules.MX-14 is the result.
Did he reach his goal? I would say he has. I will stand corrected, but I don't think he or the rest of the team thought they'd rocket to the top of the DW chart, or expected a deluge of new users, or really gave much thought to any "guilt by association" there might be from being connected, however tangentially, to the MEPIS name.
Branding and marketing and promotion might have their place, if your goals include growth and recognition and popularity. All those things are nice, of course, but I'm not sure that's what Jerry and anti and the rest of the team were after. I'm thinking what they were after was a damn fine operating system that met the design goals and targets that were set at the onset.
I would say they actually exceeded their goals, and thank them for sharing the fruits of their labor with a mere mortal like me.
/sarcasm off
