Re: new to debian -- a few questions
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? :_
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