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Selective comparison?

Selective comparison?

Posted Nov 11, 2008 10:40 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Selective comparison? by sladen
Parent article: Debian Pure Blends

The name "Mandrake" should give you a hint that this is mostly an update of a document that was written when Mandriva was still called Mandrake.

Ubuntu, by the terminology of that white-paper chose to become a completely separate fork, and hence has to replicate much of Debian's infrastructure. Ubuntu's creators had their reasons for doing so, and this is perfectly legitimate.

However, this white-paper is about Debian-based distributions that do not want to pay this high price. It is about providing them tools to maintain their own subsets of Debian in a productive as possible way.


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