Yesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and that Ubuntu users would be able to use CNR to install proprietary applications and drivers, starting…

(A real good read including the comments from the Dev of Mepis, take a look and see what the comments are.Including the comment that Ubuntu is replacing Debian in the Distro chain. Baldy)

Source: Linspire to be based on Ubuntu