From: Adam 

John Beamish wrote:
> I thought Ubuntu was a Debian-based distro.
>

Yup. But it adds a load of stuff which is missing in debian so building off
ubuntu is a much brighter idea.

Adam

> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:46:23 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>  wrote:
>
>> Linspire moving away from Debian
>>
>> http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS7103672739.html
>>
>> Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc., the
>> developer of
>> Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology
>> partnership to
>> integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire
>> will be
>> based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with
>> Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.
>>

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