__/ [ yttrx ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 05:22 \__
> Ruel Smith <NoWay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> | The time has come to introduce some
>>> | seriously interesting, but definitely edgy, new technologies that lay
>>> | the groundwork for the next wave of Ubuntu development.
>>
>> I'm just curious: Since Ubuntu is basically Debian, what development do
>> they really do? I know Mark commissioned a few apps to be developed (Adept
>> is one of them), but other than that, what development are they talking
>> about? What new wave are they talking about that isn't going to be part of
>> Debian, and therefore Linspire, Mepis, Knoppix, and every other Debian
>> derivative out there? I'm sure they contribute to Debian development to
>> some degree, and from what I've read they take more from Debian than the
>> actually give to the project, but are they really developing anything new
>> such as Novell has been doing?
>>
>> It's almost as if Ubuntu takes the credit for all of Debian's work.
See last night's article:
http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/01/149211&from=rss
Maintainer's resignation highlights problems in Debian project
Tensions between Canonical and Debian developer are nothing new, for what
it's worth.
> No.
>
> Debian is an excellent linux distribution, but all of the distributions
> you named above are debian BASED.
Mepis is now using Ubuntu as its source, which makes Debian a 'grandparent'.
> That's like saying Novell has taken all the credit for RedHat's innovations
> because SuSe is (technically) RedHat based.
I was never too sure about that, but Red Hat Package Management (did I guess
that acronym correctly?) should have served as a clue. Here's an interesting
mindmap.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3370/2500/1600/GNULinux.jpg
Doesn't show SUSE as a descendent of Red Hat.
Another fun image:
http://730x.up.md/wp-content/44218-1.png
> Ubuntu shares the same package management and repository system that
> Debian uses, and can therefore pretty easily be synced against most
> Debian repositories.
>
> But Ubuntu also has its own repositories, full of all kinds of fun things
> that Debian does not include, like constantly updated kernel revisions,
> easily upgradable via the Synaptic package system, or if you'd like,
> apt-get or aptitude.
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