From: "John Beamish" 

I'm not at all knowledgeable about Linux and just pick up newsy
"bits" every-now-and-then so I may be quite a bit off the mark on
this ... but iirc there was some, uh, "dialog" about the fact
that Debian was doing all sorts of work improving the distro and
Ubuntu/Canonical would pick that up and make further changes but not
recycle those back to Debian in a timely fashion.

As I said, I just pick this stuff up occasionally so I may have
misinterpreted the situation.

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:00:18 -0500, Adam
 wrote:

> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Yup much as Mepis did & many others. It's IMHO a much brighter idea as
> debian is a bit spartan & slow moving where Ubuntu gives you lots of
> stuff as a starting point & any improvements you make can then be fed
> back into Ubuntu (& thus possibly into Debian).
>
>
> Adam

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