From: "John Beamish" 

I thought Ubuntu was a Debian-based distro.

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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