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In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at  Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project.  
In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at  Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project.  


The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got an earful.
The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got pushback from the developers. This is GPL.


'''Release''' '''channel''': PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.


'''Type:''' Command line tool and GUI


Release channel: PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.
'''Supported distros''': Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu


Command line tool and GUI
'''Peak''' 2016-2019


Supported distros: Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu
'''Featured on''' LinuxJournal,  


Peak 2016.
'''Developers:''' Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.
 
Featured on LinuxJournal,
 
Developers: Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.

Revision as of 02:06, 16 April 2025

In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project.

The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got pushback from the developers. This is GPL.

Release channel: PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.

Type: Command line tool and GUI

Supported distros: Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu

Peak 2016-2019

Featured on LinuxJournal,

Developers: Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.