Debian Pure Blends [LWN.net]

Debian Pure Blends

Posted Nov 10, 2008 18:57 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Debian Pure Blends by sladen
Parent article: Debian Pure Blends

There was a lengthy discussion in the name. "remix" was suggested, as well as "spin" , a-la Fedora.

One quality that the name "pure blend" that most other suggestions lacked is that you can easily relate to a blend that is not "pure", that is: (in *this* context) is not fully contained in the Debian Stable distribution.

Historically Debian Pure Blends

Debian Pure Blens is technically a rename if an earlier Debian subproject, the poorly named "Custom Debian Distribution" (cdd, debian-custom). As you can see, the debian-custom list was generated as Apr-2004.

Ubuntu is not such a distribution (that attempts to be part of Debian Stable or at least be compatible to it). Therefore it is simply out of the scope of this.

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Debian Pure Blends

Posted Nov 10, 2008 19:21 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Fedora does differentiate between "pure" derivatives and otherwise. There are two different terms used within Fedora: Spins and Remixes for this purpose. Refer to the trademark guidelines for details

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines

Spins and Remixes as concepts have been introduced by Fedora during the Fedora 7 days however the trademark guidelines adopting the terminology is relatively recent.