8.10 Updates damaging applications

[Bart Silverstrim]

Christopher Chan wrote:
>> I have been led to believe that it's safe enough if they are all
>> Debian based at least.
>>   
> Huh? Ubuntu is definitely not Debian. Debian has this reputation for 
> being out-dated...which was why Ubuntu surfaced I think.
> 
> Ubuntu may use the same packaging system as Debian but they sure do not 
> share the same repositories.

Debian-based. Ubuntu was originally built on the Debian distribution.

Most of the distro's today "evolved" from another established distros 
like Slackware and Red Hat. After becoming divergent enough they become 
"different enough" that they may become the basis for their own support 
system and eventually fork into projects in the future.