[Freedombox-discuss] not a Debian distribution(?|!)

James Vasile james at hackervisions.org
Thu Mar 24 17:42:53 UTC 2011


On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:32:52 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:00:39AM -0400, James Vasile wrote:
> >Just to be clear (and I think you already know this), this project is 
> >not a Debian distribution.
> 
> Above has multiple possible interpretations.  Examples:
> 
>    * not a _derived_ distribution of Debian
>    * not _only_ a distribution
>    * not Debian at all
>    * nothing specific at all yet
>    * nothing specific at all ever
> 
> I agree with some of those interpretations, but not all.
> 
> So I am curious:  What do you mean?

By Debian distribution, I mean a linux distribution derived from Debian,
like Ubuntu or Maemo.  We're not going to rebuild all the packages in
the Debian repo and try to create some parallel universe.  And, no, this
isn't a pronouncement so much as a prediction.



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