On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ian Walters wrote:
> If it uses the same package managment, kernel, modules and directory
> structure as familiar then its not really a different distro from familiar,
> is it. For example I don't run any windowing system at all on my Debian
> machine, not everything on it is from a .deb and the kernel is custom... yet
> its still a Debian distribution.
>
> Since most of the supposed distributions mentioned builds on top of familiar
> or HH without replacing much of it apart from the windowing system then I
> doubt that they could all be counted as different distributions, just
> apps/packages that can be used with familiar to replace TinyX.
On the other hand, if you would re-distribute the changes to your debian
distribution, wouldn't that then be a new distribution (providing you
distribute everything, not only the changes)?
Like there is a lot of distributions more or less based on RedHat which is
considered valid distributions on their own.
So I think the correct way would be to say for example that mLinux is a
distribution which is based on Familiar/HH/whatever.
Erik
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