On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:42:03PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >If you like Ubuntu's repositories, you should check out Debian's --  
> >much
> >more extensive, and generally conducive to a more stable system, too.
> >
> >Similar in extensiveness is FreeBSD's ports collection -- and even  
> >*more*
> >conducive to stability than Debian's repositories.  That's hard to  
> >beat.
> >
> >Both Debian and FreeBSD tend to work best for people who are  
> >willing and
> >able to make their own decisions, however, more than people who want
> >something "easy".  Ubuntu is far more suited to the average MS Windows
> >transplant, I suppose.
> >
> >The above is just one curmudgeonly free unix hacker's opinion, of  
> >course.
> >
> Ubunut is a Debian Linux.

Ubuntu is a Debian *fork*.  It has less in common with Debian itself than
PC-BSD and DesktopBSD have in common with FreeBSD, and may even have less
in common with Debian than Dragonfly BSD has with FreeBSD.

In fact, measured within the context of Linux distributions, about the
only thing it meaningfully has in common with Debian is the
under-the-hood package management software it uses (namely, DPKG and
APT).

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