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Derivatives is to Debian as the distributors are to the kernel

Derivatives is to Debian as the distributors are to the kernel

Posted Oct 21, 2004 8:00 UTC (Thu) by walles (subscriber, #954)
Parent article: A couple of applications from your future desktop

It strikes me that the Debian derivatives seem to be doing the same thing to Debian that the Linux distributors have been doing to the Linux kernel, I.e. package it up in a friendly fashion and provide some sort of support.


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