Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
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?
Afaik knoppix is the first bootable CD distribution. So, when it was
started, they took a stable base (debian) to work from to create what
was an experiment - could it be done? how would it work? Precicely
because debian is the stable base, it wouldn't have made sense to try
and do the experiment within debian itself.
Now, of course, the original purpose for knoppix has been shown to be
very useful, the technology very effective, it would make sense to fold
it into debian. Although I think the knoppix people have their own
agenda and opinions on how things should be done which run contrary to
debian. I'm not sure on that though, I haven't followed debian for a
while.
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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