Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

[Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 06:03:51PM +0800, kangja wrote:
> i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian
> alone? if you find some way to improve on debian, why use it to produce
> another branch? E.g. the bootable cd of Knoppix, why not just have a
> bootable cd for debian?

Contrariwise, why should all of them be rolled back into Debian?  Also, what
if two groups of developers disagree (as they inevitably will)?  One of the
beauties of Free software is that one group can take the software base, fork
off their own project, and do it their way.
-- 
Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
	-Bruce Tognazzini