From: "Rich Gauszka" 

It is - Oh well- So Linspire is moving away from Debian to Debian based
with Ubuntu as the baseline? I have no idea what the heck that means

http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Linspire_Canonical_Partnership_FAQ

As with all Linux distributions, Linspire and Freespire are created from
the work of hundreds of individuals and open source projects. Linspire
takes this baseline of work, and then supplements it with thousands of
lines of additional code to glue everything together in a way consistent
with their intended audience. In the past, the Linspire and Freespire
operating systems have been based directly on the Debian Linux
distribution. With this new partnership, both Linspire and Freespire will
start using Ubuntu as their baseline. Because Ubuntu is a Debian-based
distribution, Linspire will continue to have access to all the same core
functionality as before, but with the additional work Ubuntu adds to the
process. In other words, the Linspire and Freespire operating systems will
benefit from all the good work of Debian, Ubuntu, and Linspire.



"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.tngfpygqm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>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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