What's customized in "Debian-based" distros?

[Christian Convey]

I've heard people advocate the newbie-kindness of distros like Ubuntu 
and Mepis.

If ultimately they use the same set of packages, then what's different 
at a technical level between these and plain old Debian?  Do they 
differe merely in the set of initially installed packages and what they 
do under /etc ?

Thanks,
Christian
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Christian Convey
Computer Scientist,
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI
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