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The Shuttleworth FAQ (part 4): Is Ubuntu the Big Ticket for Debian ...

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Tectonic; By Mark Shuttleworth 		Mail this story
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Is Ubuntu a Debian fork? Or spoon? What sort of silverware are you, man?

Yes, Ubuntu is a fork. No, it isn't. Yes it is! Oh, whatever.

In short, we are a project that tries hard to collaborate with many other projects -- such as upstream X.org, and Gnome, and of course Debian. In many cases, the code we ship is modified or different to the code shipped by those other projects. When that happens, we work hard to ensure that our changes are published as widely as possible, in a format that is easy for other project maintainers to understand and incorporate into their own working tree.

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Comments (4)

tuxchick ·
which may be the kick in the pants needed to shake up the Debian bureacracy a bit. I don't want to wait until Y3K for the next stable release.
dinotrac ·
The answer to that is to use another distro!!!

Nobody else would dream of making you wait that long.
jimf ·
None of the others are 'worth' waiting that long :).

http://www.debian.org/

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