8.10 Updates damaging applications

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Feb 23 13:24:10 UTC 2009


> 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.
>
>   

Thanks for making that clear. While I am at it, there is also Nexenta, 
which is based on Ubuntu except for kernel packages and some related 
toolchains.




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