Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Joey. On Oct 12 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > The Ubuntu people are synchronizing their work with Debian all the > > time > > Ubuntu has a general policy of not sending patches back to Debian > developers. I didn't know that. > They make their patches available on a web

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Rogério Brito wrote: > The Ubuntu people are synchronizing their work with Debian all the time Ubuntu has a general policy of not sending patches back to Debian developers. They make their patches available on a website in lumps[1] of varying utility and expect Debian to go look at them and integr

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 12 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > > > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > > > alone? > > > > because: > > e) they don't know how to provide patches/enhancement

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 12 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > > alone? > > because: > e) they don't know how to provide patches/enhancements/new-packages into >the main debian core Please, don't spread FUD

variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote: > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian > alone? because: a) they can b) they want to have their own label (they can sell it in various forms) c) they want to improve it in ways they want d) tney can sell it e) they don't kn