On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:16:50 +0200 Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Dale, > > Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 11:29 -0400 schrieb Dale C. Scheetz: > > >From the first CD I installed, I realized it was a fork...and a > > >disapointing > > one at that. (Pretty desktop on live CD didn't install from installation CD, > > but the fact that their archives only hold their limited package set, found > > on the CDs, made it apparent that they were a separate distro, based on > > Debian but not necessarily compatible with Debian.) > > this is not quite true. The CD only holds packages from the "main" > component, but there are "Universe", "Multiverse" (the non-free section) > and "restricted" as well. > When using apt-get on a system installed from the installation CD (not the live CD) apt-get points to the Ubuntu archives, which only contain a very limited subset of Debian's main archives. I had limited success in pointing apt at a real Debian archives and getting additional packages to install. This is why I said it looked like a fork from the biginnig. This is a "desktop" distribution with a specific philosphy that dictates looking at global configuration of packages in a different way than the Debian developers may... > Apart from that, I really can't see this as an indication for a fork. Even as a fork, there are useful ideas to be gleaned from them, and their open source policy seems to make that possible, dispite the technical problems... > Luck, Dwarf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]