On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > > who have undergone a peer review process before getting commit rights to > > main. Knoppix, ubunto, libranet, gnoppix and other derivatives take > > snapshots of subsets of main... > > While your definition is accurate in the main, Ubuntu is a spcial case in > that it doesn't take the garbage approach of the other pseudo-distributions > you mention. It does not use Debian packages. It uses it's *own* > packages and is, in fact, a real distribution. > > Not that I want to be seen as defending Ubuntu, of course... it's not > something *I'd* ever use.
I did paint with a pretty big brush :) Of the four I mentioned, I've used knoppix as a recovery system a couple of times, looked at gnoppix, burned libranet and skipped it, and, since I currently live at the end of a 3k pipe, need to depend on that peer review. Anybody wanna mail me an ubuntu install disk? :_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
