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



On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:39 -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> 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 ?

This is probably more specificity than you wanted. But here is an exact
list of what's different in ubunutu:
http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/

-Mark



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